behemoths

plural of behemoth

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Recent Examples of behemoths Small and medium-sized businesses, who make up more than 60 percent of third-party sellers on sites like Amazon, lack the clout to cover these expenses in contrast to retail behemoths with diverse supply chains. Vitalii Savryha, Sourcing Journal, 21 Oct. 2025 Like LaSota, a computer engineer from Fairbanks, Alaska, several Zizians worked or interned at technology behemoths, such as Google, Oracle, and NASA. Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 20 Oct. 2025 Netflix’s bi-annual ‘data dumps’ are now bedecked with children’s TV shows, merchandising opportunities are greater than ever thanks to streaming and platforms like YouTube can create global behemoths at an astonishing rate. Max Goldbart, Deadline, 12 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 Once defined by school bus-sized behemoths, the class has evolved to include vehicles that combine plush comfort, forward-thinking tech, and top-notch performance into a single convenient package. Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 2 Oct. 2025 The full universe of printers covers a lot of territory, from portable photo printers to floor-standing behemoths. PC Magazine, 30 Sep. 2025 On top of that, regional conferences have realigned into national behemoths like the Big 10. Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 30 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for behemoths
Noun
  • The way European football’s financial landscape has been transformed over the last couple of decades — putting Real Madrid, Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Paris Saint-Germain and a handful of English clubs far beyond everyone else, including the Italian giants — is enormously unhealthy.
    Oliver Kay, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Bloomberg reports that OpenAI has hired more than 100 former investment bankers from Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and other financial giants, staff that’s been brought on board to help train financial models that can replace entry-level tasks performed by younger bankers.
    John Kell, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Driftwood tent shelters appear marooned like shipwrecks, and the beach is scattered with the bones of the giant whales.
    Chloe Berge, AFAR Media, 15 Oct. 2025
  • It was enacted the year before the Endangered Species Act, at a time when the movement to save whales from extinction was growing.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Sample collection lasted about three to four years just for Cretaceous rocks, while another four to five were spent on the overlying rock that shows when mammals lived at the site after the dinosaurs went extinct.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025
  • How did Indigenous people in North America interpret fossils of dinosaurs and other long-extinct animals?
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The project — which chronicles the adventures of Huntrix, a K-pop girl group comprising three members who just happen to also fight monsters from the underworld — has been a surprise hit for the streamer, and its soundtrack has spent several weeks in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 chart.
    Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Based on legal proceedings and real investigations, The Monster of Florence revisits one of Italy’s darkest chapters through the eyes of those accused over the years—the possible monsters—exposing how hysteria and speculation blurred the line between truth and myth.
    Isadora Wandermurem, Time, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The second-priciest ZIP code, 94027, sits in Atherton, California, a Silicon Valley community that houses titans of tech.
    Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 20 Oct. 2025
  • On this night in 2023, however, the cavernous five-story building was filled with bearded, flannel-wearing, middle-aged former punks, most of whom came to see Nineties punk titans Unwound play a reunion for the 20th birthday of the archival record label Numero Group.
    David Hill, Rolling Stone, 15 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Humans have had an impact on biodiversity as far back as 130,000 years ago, with the disappearance of mammoths and giant sloths—and extinction has continued in our wake as the human race spread across the globe.
    Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
  • In a study published in Cell, researchers set out to trace the microbial companions of mammoths across a staggering timeline, from over a million years ago to their final days on Wrangel Island just 4,000 years ago.
    Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 30 Sep. 2025

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