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 These behemoths don’t just store information like traditional data centers. — John Lippert, Chicago Tribune, 7 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 The investigation comes on the heels of back-to-back crackdowns on Big Tech by Brussels, which has led the world in regulating tech behemoths including Meta and Apple. — ABC News, 24 July 2026 Manuel helped Michigan regain its place among the behemoths in college sports and built a financial juggernaut with an annual budget around $300 million. — Austin Meek, New York Times, 21 July 2026 California will have some tough competition to beat, considering that state fair behemoths such as Wisconsin, Texas, and, of course, Minnesota are also in the running. — Anne Ewbank, Sacbee.com, 21 July 2026 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

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Noun

At that point, the Spanish club was confident he would soon be snapped up by one of the game’s giants for mega money, so was happy to play the long game.

— Ben Church, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026
Tech giants like OpenAI, Google and Anthropic offer schools training sessions in how to use their AI tools.

— ABC News, ABC News, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of giants

Noun

The Georgia Aquarium’s two newest beluga whales are safe and sound in Atlanta after being rescued from a shuttered aquatic park in Canada.

— AJ Willingham, AJC.com, 17 Aug. 2026
Georgia Aquarium staff say Balor and Zephyr will meet their trainers and, eventually, join the aquarium's existing pod of beluga whales.

— CBS Atlanta Digital Team, CBS News, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of whales

Noun

Starting with the second film, The Lost World, a theme emerged in which dinosaurs were recast as victims who needed protecting from evil humans.

— James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 17 Aug. 2026
That shape could be consistent with tracks left by either theropods — a group that includes meat-eating dinosaurs — or ornithopods, which were bipedal herbivores.

— Brandi D. Addison, USA Today, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of dinosaurs

Noun

The most obvious general interpretation of Buffy’s project is that the show transmutes real teenage anxieties into monsters; every villain is a metaphor.

— Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 18 Aug. 2026
As fans know, no world in Stranger Things is ever void, as there are always monsters lurking nearby, namely Vecna.

— Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of monsters

Noun

In time, generations of directors and studio execs who came up revering trailblazing path set by 1970s New Hollywood titans like Coppola would come to fundamentally see the sequel in a different light as a result.

— Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 14 Aug. 2026
The evidence for this clash of oceanic titans comes from sperm whale skin and stomach contents.

— Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of titans

Noun

Woolly mammoths coexisted with early humans who hunted the cold-resistant herbivores for food and used their tusks and bones as tools.

— CBS News, CBS News, 4 Aug. 2026
These results raise some questions about how Ice Age hunter-gatherers interacted with wooly mammoths.

— Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 30 July 2026

Definition of mammoths

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