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 Two sets of Brooks River behemoths duke it out, including last year’s champion, Bear #32 (Chunk). — Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 25 Sep. 2026 The four experts each have ties to academia, tech behemoths like Google and X, and the Obama and Biden administrations. — Lia Russell, Sacbee.com, 23 Sep. 2026 Paramount has long positioned the merger as a way to compete more effectively with streaming behemoths like Netflix and Disney+, which boast giant digital libraries full of attractive IP. — Liam Reilly, CNN Money, 22 Sep. 2026 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

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Noun

Andersen predicts security concerns will ultimately keep China’s turbine giants from conquering the continent.

— Sam Birchall, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026
As rural communities across the United States wage intensifying battles to keep AI-computing data centers out of their backyards, some tech giants are mulling methods that could sidestep such local resentment — by sending the facilities to space.

— Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of giants

Noun

For decades, the seabirds have pecked at whales surfacing to breathe, gorging on their skin and blubber.

— ABC News, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2026
The new interpretations of the Endangered Species Act remove some of the legal basis for enforcing rules for noisy seismic surveys, speed limits on vessels and restrictions on shipping routes designed to help protect the whales from harm.

— Timothy Randhir, The Conversation, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of whales

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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
For the dinosaurs that survived the initial blast, the world became an unforgiving wilderness of starvation and severe climate shifts.

— Kevin Brown, Forbes.com, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of dinosaurs

Noun

The main three projects — The Mummy, The Loudest Voice and Unabomber — each involve monsters in various forms.

— Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 3 Oct. 2026
The world has seen many hurricanes rapidly intensify in recent years, strengthening from relatively weak storms into destructive monsters in a matter of hours.

— Chanh Kieu, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of monsters

Noun

But compared to galaxies, which can host 100 billion similarly sized star systems, even these cosmic titans are relatively small in stature.

— Robert Lea, Space.com, 2 Oct. 2026
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

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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