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
Compared with those of the older behemoths, the stairs of this 105-story giant do have an airiness about them, which was apparently an intention in the design.
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Michelle Sinclair Colman, Curbed, 7 May 2026
From within our own galaxy to behemoths billions of light-years away, supermassive black holes create jets like nothing else in the cosmos.
—Big Think, 4 May 2026
There's also an appetite to back names beyond behemoths like OpenAI and Anthropic, which have valuations creeping towards $1 trillion.
—Kate Rooney, CNBC, 4 May 2026
The sluggish living makes sense for steely behemoths that live comfortably into their 200s and possible to 400 or more.
—Jeanna Bryner, Scientific American, 4 May 2026
While fashion brands or tech behemoths like Instagram typically underwrite the affair, this year Amazon co-founder and executive chair, Jeff Bezos, and his wife, Lauren Sánchez Bezos, are the event’s main benefactors.
—Rachel Tashjian, CNN Money, 1 May 2026
Not the big-box behemoths like Home Depot or Lowe’s, necessarily (although those can be pretty great, too).
—Barbara Ellis, Denver Post, 27 Apr. 2026
The Bloomberg Magnificent Seven Index is priced at around 27 times forward earnings, which is elevated because Tesla is such an outlier compared to the other six tech behemoths.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 22 Apr. 2026
The Silicon Valley drama Cupertino from The Good Wife creators Robert and Michelle King will see a lawyer (Mike Colter) take on Silicon Valley behemoths.
—Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 27 Mar. 2026
Michelle Sinclair Colman, Curbed, 7 May 2026
From within our own galaxy to behemoths billions of light-years away, supermassive black holes create jets like nothing else in the cosmos.
—Big Think, 4 May 2026
There's also an appetite to back names beyond behemoths like OpenAI and Anthropic, which have valuations creeping towards $1 trillion.
—Kate Rooney, CNBC, 4 May 2026
The sluggish living makes sense for steely behemoths that live comfortably into their 200s and possible to 400 or more.
—Jeanna Bryner, Scientific American, 4 May 2026
While fashion brands or tech behemoths like Instagram typically underwrite the affair, this year Amazon co-founder and executive chair, Jeff Bezos, and his wife, Lauren Sánchez Bezos, are the event’s main benefactors.
—Rachel Tashjian, CNN Money, 1 May 2026
Not the big-box behemoths like Home Depot or Lowe’s, necessarily (although those can be pretty great, too).
—Barbara Ellis, Denver Post, 27 Apr. 2026
The Bloomberg Magnificent Seven Index is priced at around 27 times forward earnings, which is elevated because Tesla is such an outlier compared to the other six tech behemoths.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 22 Apr. 2026
The Silicon Valley drama Cupertino from The Good Wife creators Robert and Michelle King will see a lawyer (Mike Colter) take on Silicon Valley behemoths.
—Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 27 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for behemoths
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Meanwhile, the global memory crisis has worsened, forcing tech giants to pay up for the capacity needed to satisfy their data center ambitions.—
Jordan Novet,Jonathan Vanian,
CNBC,
28 Apr. 2026
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Dubbed the Flannel and the Fury, the tour brings together the alt-rock giants for the first time, with dates in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, and other cities.—
Jazz Monroe,
Pitchfork,
28 Apr. 2026
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The findings suggest whales, like humans, cooperate during birth—something that had never been documented in detail before.—
Jackie Flynn Mogensen,
Scientific American,
10 May 2026
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The best way to experience this national park is from the water, and there are plenty of cruise tours available to take in the scenery and wildlife (think seals, sea lions, sea otters, puffins, orcas, whales, and eagles).—
Dave Parfitt,
USA Today,
9 May 2026
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One lineage would give rise to crocodiles and alligators, while the other would produce dinosaurs and the birds that would eventually conquer the skies.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
3 May 2026
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Horizon Forbidden West, the next-gen sequel, takes us back to this fascinating sci-fi world where human tribes live alongside robot dinosaurs.—
George Yang,
PC Magazine,
1 May 2026
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Policy favored the monsters who plot in the background, more Kissinger than Kennedy.—
Eli Durst,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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The titular monsters in this anthology series tend to do well at the Emmys (Evan Peters as Jeffrey Dahmer and Cooper Koch as Erik Menendez were both nominated).—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
2 May 2026
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Tech titans Mark Zuckerberg and Sergey Brin also crashed the annual parade of protest-y decadence.—
James Hibberd,
HollywoodReporter,
8 May 2026
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His crowning cultural achievement was the creation of the Cable News Network in 1980, which provided a model for today’s cable news titans.—
Meg James,
Los Angeles Times,
6 May 2026
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In a twist of prehistoric irony, our ancestors’ hunting skills proved too effective, leading to the extinction of mammoths around 10,000 years ago—and mammoth-bone dwellings with them.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
1 May 2026
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Fossils have also been found that indicate the islands were also once home to pygmy mammoths, which only reached 4 to 6 feet tall.—
Tribune News Service,
Baltimore Sun,
29 Apr. 2026
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“Behemoths.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/behemoths. Accessed 11 May. 2026.
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