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 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 The Kospi, half the value of which is made up of just two tech behemoths (SK Hynix and Samsung), tripped another circuit breaker Friday, leading to a 20-minute trading break. — David Goldman, CNN Money, 26 June 2026 The meeting between the two had come just after the Vermont senator announced a plan for the public to take a 50% ownership stake in artificial intelligence companies such as OpenAI, using their stock to create a public wealth fund that would spread the fortune generated by AI behemoths. — ABC News, 6 June 2026 The meeting between the two had come just after the Vermont senator announced a plan for the public to take a 50% ownership stake in artificial intelligence companies such as OpenAI, using their stock to create a public wealth fund that would spread the fortune generated by AI behemoths. — Joey Cappelletti, Fortune, 5 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for behemoths
  1. giants
  2. whales
  3. dinosaurs
  4. monsters
  5. titans
  6. mammoths
Noun
  • Yet almost 90% of new money is chasing AI giants such as Anthropic and OpenAI, leaving non-AI startups and smaller funds squeezed as the pipeline of initial public offerings narrows to a few blockbuster bets.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026
  • Companies of all sizes, including giants like Apple, are scrambling to secure memory.
    — Kif Leswing,Katie Tarasov, CNBC, 9 July 2026
Definition of giants
Noun
  • The same week of sky that delivers the aurora is also delivering polar bears on the tundra and beluga whales in the estuary.
    — Cody Chomiak, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • This year, the company began offering sailboat trips for between five and 10 people to observe the whales.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 1 July 2026
Definition of whales
Noun
  • The limestone cave system dates back to the Jurassic period 170 million years ago, when dinosaurs walked the earth.
    — James Rampton, TheWeek, 9 July 2026
  • At least a quarter of the subjects interpreted the figures of speech literally, leading to the inference that dinosaurs walked the streets of 19th-century London.
    — Rose Horowitch, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026
Definition of dinosaurs
Noun
  • With its vivid monsters and an emphatic, complex dive into the human heart, Homer has inspired countless adaptations, from stage, screen, television, comics, alongside a continuous stream of new translations.
    — Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 14 July 2026
  • At their Czech–Indian wedding, Jacob and Mia’s tradition-hungry guests unexpectedly begin transforming into flesh-eating monsters.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 14 July 2026
Definition of monsters
Noun
  • This clash of could-be titans proved to be too evenly matched for much action.
    — Hannah Keyser, CNN Money, 5 July 2026
  • Prior to joining Nutanix, Sam held senior leadership roles at several industry titans, including Broadcom, VMware, Cisco Systems, Palo Alto Networks, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, and Illumio.
    — Sam Rastogi, Forbes.com, 1 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
Definition of mammoths

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