as in giant
something that is unusually large and powerful
the newest SUV is a gas-guzzling behemoth that doesn't even fit in a standard parking space
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Recent Examples of behemoth
Another big sales behemoth, Walmart also does quite a bit to maintain discounts competitive with Prime Day deals across all categories.
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Melissa Knific, Bon Appetit Magazine, 9 Oct. 2025
In April, the lawsuit was amended after the Compton rapper won Song of the Year, Record of the Year, Best Rap Song, Best Rap Performance, and Best Music Video at the 2025 Grammy Awards, and performed the behemoth diss at Super Bowl LIX.
—Demicia Inman, VIBE.com, 9 Oct. 2025
Investment banking behemoths such as JPMorgan have not posted their third-quarter results, but JPM co-CEO of commercial and investment bank Doug Petno expects investment banking revenue to grow a low double-digit percentage .
—Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2025
The Lightfighter is as powerful, while much lighter than the 575-lb (260-kg) behemoths raced in the MotoE World Championship (the premier international series for electric bikes) – and the 489-lb (225-kg) e-Ducati that would have replaced them had the class not been mothballed from next year.
—New Atlas, 7 Oct. 2025
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Melissa Knific, Bon Appetit Magazine, 9 Oct. 2025
In April, the lawsuit was amended after the Compton rapper won Song of the Year, Record of the Year, Best Rap Song, Best Rap Performance, and Best Music Video at the 2025 Grammy Awards, and performed the behemoth diss at Super Bowl LIX.
—Demicia Inman, VIBE.com, 9 Oct. 2025
Investment banking behemoths such as JPMorgan have not posted their third-quarter results, but JPM co-CEO of commercial and investment bank Doug Petno expects investment banking revenue to grow a low double-digit percentage .
—Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2025
The Lightfighter is as powerful, while much lighter than the 575-lb (260-kg) behemoths raced in the MotoE World Championship (the premier international series for electric bikes) – and the 489-lb (225-kg) e-Ducati that would have replaced them had the class not been mothballed from next year.
—New Atlas, 7 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for behemoth
Noun
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Consider the two-year cycle of Moore’s Law, which changed the world and inspired new corporate giants while dooming others.—
Geoff Colvin,
Fortune,
10 Oct. 2025
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Prizegivers have also in the past been accused of being snobbish, of having an anti-American bias and of ignoring some of the giants of literature, including Russia's Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, France's Emile Zola and Ireland's James Joyce.—
Simon Johnson,
USA Today,
9 Oct. 2025
Noun
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His landscapes are muddy and void, prone to sudden invasion by disturbing strangers, including the giant whale carcass that arrives on a train at the beginning of his 1989 novel, The Melancholy of Resistance.—
Walt Hunter,
The Atlantic,
9 Oct. 2025
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Humpback whales were once hunted nearly to extinction, but a moratorium on commercial whaling in 1985 allowed the species to make a comeback, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
9 Oct. 2025
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Frankenstein's monster is a tortured fellow who's not a big fan of flames.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
14 Oct. 2025
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The same trigger the player would use to shoot a gun is used to throw Poké Balls at unsuspecting monsters, and there’s never been a mechanic in a Pokémon game that feels as immersive.—
Ryan Gaur,
Rolling Stone,
14 Oct. 2025
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But this may be the first tech revolution that doesn’t vaporize the dinosaurs, the way mobile killed Nokia and threatened Microsoft, but grafts their DNA onto something new.—
Liz Hoffman,
semafor.com,
14 Oct. 2025
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Same for the life-size dinosaur that took over Manhattan ahead of the release of Jurassic World Rebirth.—
Alex Weprin,
HollywoodReporter,
13 Oct. 2025
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With these tools, scientists may one day trace how microbes and mammoths co-evolved.—
Pranjal Malewar,
New Atlas,
30 Sep. 2025
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One likes to imagine Paleo Dad loping across the savannah in hot pursuit of a wooly mammoth.—
Inga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 Sep. 2025
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“Behemoth.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/behemoth. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.
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