as in giants
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 behemoths
Some coalitions have become massive bureaucratic behemoths, with certain coalitions claiming over 700 member groups.
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Jeffrey Sonnenfeld,
Time,
28 June 2026
The Kospi, half the value of which is made up of just two tech behemoths (SK Hynix and Samsung), tripped another circuit breaker Friday, leading to a 20-minute trading break.
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David Goldman,
CNN Money,
26 June 2026
Memory chip behemoths and heavyweights on South Korea's Kospi Index Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix fell 5% and 2%, respectively.
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Sean Conlon,joseph Wilkins,tanaya MacHeel,lee Ying Shan,
CNBC,
7 June 2026
The meeting between the two had come just after the Vermont senator announced a plan for the public to take a 50% ownership stake in artificial intelligence companies such as OpenAI, using their stock to create a public wealth fund that would spread the fortune generated by AI behemoths.
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ABC News,
6 June 2026
His rush to tap into the public markets seems to be pushing the other AI behemoths to do the same.
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Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
5 June 2026
The meeting between the two had come just after the Vermont senator announced a plan for the public to take a 50% ownership stake in artificial intelligence companies such as OpenAI, using their stock to create a public wealth fund that would spread the fortune generated by AI behemoths.
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Joey Cappelletti,
Fortune,
5 June 2026
The last company to enter the expanding club of behemoths was Micron Technology, which is likewise riding the AI wave.
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Stan Choe,
Los Angeles Times,
3 June 2026
The two behemoths combined to take 18 3-pointers on this evening, with each player leading his team in attempts.
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John Hollinger,
New York Times,
1 June 2026
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld,
Time,
28 June 2026
The Kospi, half the value of which is made up of just two tech behemoths (SK Hynix and Samsung), tripped another circuit breaker Friday, leading to a 20-minute trading break.
—
David Goldman,
CNN Money,
26 June 2026
Memory chip behemoths and heavyweights on South Korea's Kospi Index Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix fell 5% and 2%, respectively.
—
Sean Conlon,joseph Wilkins,tanaya MacHeel,lee Ying Shan,
CNBC,
7 June 2026
The meeting between the two had come just after the Vermont senator announced a plan for the public to take a 50% ownership stake in artificial intelligence companies such as OpenAI, using their stock to create a public wealth fund that would spread the fortune generated by AI behemoths.
—
ABC News,
6 June 2026
His rush to tap into the public markets seems to be pushing the other AI behemoths to do the same.
—
Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
5 June 2026
The meeting between the two had come just after the Vermont senator announced a plan for the public to take a 50% ownership stake in artificial intelligence companies such as OpenAI, using their stock to create a public wealth fund that would spread the fortune generated by AI behemoths.
—
Joey Cappelletti,
Fortune,
5 June 2026
The last company to enter the expanding club of behemoths was Micron Technology, which is likewise riding the AI wave.
—
Stan Choe,
Los Angeles Times,
3 June 2026
The two behemoths combined to take 18 3-pointers on this evening, with each player leading his team in attempts.
—
John Hollinger,
New York Times,
1 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for behemoths
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The fine is one of three antitrust penalties totaling more than $8 billion that the European Commission slapped on Google between 2017 and 2019, putting the 27-nation bloc at the forefront of the global push to rein in tech giants.
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There are also pieces by Rufino Tamayo, Diego Rivera, and other giants of Mexican modernism.
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Options for activities include paddleboarding and chasing Arctic swells in the fjords, sailing through sea cliffs and the uninhabited Hornstrandir Nature Reserve, and spotting whales, seals, Arctic foxes, and more wildlife.
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Wall Street whales can’t jump into our profitable CEF pond.
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Experts are invited to experience an amusement park built around cloned dinosaurs.
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This image provided by the Natural History Museum shows a fossil found in Antarctica that belongs to a group of dinosaurs called titanosaurs.
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When the monsters reveal an evil agenda that goes beyond becoming movie stars, the Minions are forced to battle them to save the world.
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In this end-of-the-world scenario, Jack thrives on junk food and video games while gathering a squad of classmates to fight of zombies and monsters.
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This combines two titans of the industry.
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Silicon Valley titans were preparing to spend heavily to defeat them.
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According to this theory, those now-extinct megafauna—the giant ground sloths and the giant beavers, the mastodons and mammoths, and even the lions and dire wolves—were relatively quickly hunted to extinction.
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The artificial egg tech is the latest addition to Colossal's list of de-extinction projects, which now span dodo birds, dire wolves, and mammoths.
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“Behemoths.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/behemoths. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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