BEHEMOTHS Synonyms: 42 Similar and Opposite Words

behemoths

noun

plural of behemoth

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 Politico reported in 2024 that the small organization’s hefty war chest put it in the same league as organizational behemoths such as the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation and the Brookings Institution. — Toluse Olorunnipa, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2026 And in the Album of the Year race, pop behemoths Drake and Charli xcx are nominated alongside indie icons Kevin Morby and Kurt Vile. — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 14 Sep. 2026 Huge data centers are likely not going anywhere—training new frontier models and running AI models from leading companies will likely still be the purview of these behemoths. — Dina Genkina, IEEE Spectrum, 1 Sep. 2026 During that stretch of chart-position leapfrog, the song made runners-up of such chart behemoths as Drake, Bad Bunny, Bruno Mars, BTS, Olivia Rodrigo, Ariana Grande and Taylor Swift — twice. — Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 31 Aug. 2026 These cosmic behemoths can tell us more about our own Milky Way galaxy’s history and the universe’s evolution over time. — Mary Randolph, Scientific American, 27 Aug. 2026 But there are two other AI behemoths still waiting in the wings for their turn to go public, and at least one of them has no intention of being eclipsed by Elon Musk. — Alexei Oreskovic, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2026 Now, eight years and nearly two full terms later, the governor has paused those incentives as the onset of data centers has stressed energy and water resources and public opinion has swiftly turned against the tech behemoths. — Ben Szalinski, Chicago Tribune, 18 Aug. 2026 Modern merchant ships, often bare-bones behemoths designed to offer owners the highest possible rate of return, are proving to be surprisingly vulnerable. — Craig Hooper, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026

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Noun

Ruddy failed to foil the Nexstar-Tegna combination or to get a $250 million compensation fund included in an FTC settlement over an advertising-giants merger.

— Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 24 Sep. 2026
The timing of the tech giants' flagship releases, days ahead of the summit, has revived debate over whether China's AI industry has hit an inflection point.

— Anniek Bao, CNBC, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of giants

Noun

Rather than insisting that these whales continue with their life, which is a human decision, perhaps they should be allowed to die gracefully and respectfully on their own.

— Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 26 Sep. 2026
The Canadian government signed off on a last-minute agreement to move its last captive whales out of the country earlier this year, saving them from euthanasia.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of whales

Noun

Its discovery adds to our understanding of one of the world’s premier fossil deposits and what life in Illinois looked like even before dinosaurs.

— Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 24 Sep. 2026
Scientists have unearthed only a handful of tracks from other dinosaurs in the wider Hell Creek Formation.

— Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of dinosaurs

Noun

Districts could be drawn that look like dinosaurs, steam locomotives or Frankenstein monsters.

— Chris West, Baltimore Sun, 19 Sep. 2026
However, the biggest influences behind the storytelling came from classic Universal monsters and the Hammer Film Productions horrors.

— Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of monsters

Noun

The guest list includes Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, and Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, among other tech titans staking out positions on whether more safeguards are needed in the race to develop artificial intelligence.

— Aamer Madhani, Chicago Tribune, 24 Sep. 2026
IonQ’s partners include artificial intelligence boom titans Amazon Web Services and Nvidia and pharmaceutical companies such as AstraZeneca.

— Caleigh Keating, CNBC, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of titans

Noun

In ancient California, they are believed to have existed alongside other extinct native species, including bison-sized Jefferson’s ground sloths, Columbian mammoths and western camels.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026
See fossils of the 14-foot, 20,000-pound mammoths that used to roam around Texas.

— Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Sep. 2026

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