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 That’s because private insurers tend to follow the lead of Medicare and Medicaid, behemoths that cover about 2 in 5 Americans. — Sarah Todd, STAT, 17 July 2026 These digital tokens, which are pegged to fiat currencies and emitted by companies rather than a central bank, have proliferated globally, with behemoths like Tether’s USDT and Circle’s USDC dominating the marketplace. — Camila Grigera Naón, Fortune, 15 July 2026 As the implosion of Graham Platner in Maine stokes an intraparty debate over progressives’ campaign acumen, the left has sought to change the subject by digging in against data centers as energy-hungry behemoths that hurt communities. — David Weigel, semafor.com, 14 July 2026 The rapid increase from 2025’s dealmaking number was powered by massive funding rounds at OpenAI and Anthropic, the AI behemoths behind ChatGPT and Claude. — Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 13 July 2026 The tech companies, especially the trillion-dollar behemoths, just have so much more to offer than any other industry. — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 12 July 2026 Eight of these behemoths were preserved, but only one – number 4014 – is in operating condition. — Jeff Lunden, NPR, 11 July 2026 Trillion-parameter behemoths dominate headlines, benchmark leaderboards and investor slide decks. — Rivindu Perera, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026 Some coalitions have become massive bureaucratic behemoths, with certain coalitions claiming over 700 member groups. — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Time, 28 June 2026

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Noun

But of the two Premier League giants who have thrown their financial heft at these signings, whose is the better deal?

— Cerys Jones, New York Times, 24 July 2026
Despite revenue beats for both technology giants, Wall Street appeared more focused on — and concerned by — their artificial intelligence spending.

— Alex Harring, CNBC, 23 July 2026

Definition of giants

Noun

Paramount+ delivered the main full trailer for season 4 on June 15, 2026, and it’s packed with dinosaurs, cowboys, horses, space storms, dreams, nightmares, fire-breathing dragons, haunted spaceships, and hallucinatory pleasure planets.

— Jeff Spry, Space.com, 23 July 2026
Whatever difficulties this might create, dealing with Cassell is probably preferable to trying to get past some dinosaurs via Una’s shoot-the-dinosaur-in-the-mouth stun-and-run strategy, as effective as this turns out to be.

— Keith Phipps, Vulture, 23 July 2026

Definition of dinosaurs

Noun

Over the last two seasons of Percy Jackson and the Olympians, the titular demigod (Walker Scobell) has faced off against a minotaur, sailed to the sea of monsters, been chased by Cerberus, and even magically transformed into a guinea pig.

— Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 21 July 2026
With the franchise’s trademark blend of extreme gore and dark humor, the Evil Dead backstory centers on the ancient Book of the Dead that unleashes supernatural evil forces and twists victims into sadistic, shape-shifting, near-invincible monsters.

— Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 21 July 2026

Definition of monsters

Noun

Plus, the powerful cosmic titans get really puzzling when astronomers using the JWST spot them before the universe was even 1 billion years old.

— Robert Lea, Space.com, 19 July 2026
When the two storylines collide, Nolan stages a clash of A-list titans that throws the director’s usual cerebral machinations aside and instead satisfies his audience with some good old-fashion bloodlust.

— James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 16 July 2026

Definition of titans

Noun

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.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 June 2026
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.

— Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 19 May 2026

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