COLOSSI Synonyms: 42 Similar and Opposite Words

colossi

noun

plural of colossus

as in giants

something that is unusually large and powerful Leonardo da Vinci remains a colossus in the history of art

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Currently, to meet the massive capital requirements of AI infrastructure, American tech giants are expanding financing channels into overseas markets like Europe while extending bond maturities.

— , CNBC, 6 Nov. 2026
The legal action follows successful lawsuits brought against the tech giants by California and others that have resulted in massive civil settlements.

— Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2026

Definition of giants

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In February last year, more than 150 whales beached off the coast of Tasmania, Australia – and all of them either died or were euthanized – in the first mass stranding of the animals in Tasmania in 50 years.

— Amarachi Orie, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2026
Necropsy reports this week specified the causes of death for two beluga whales at Shedd Aquarium after they were rescued from Canada.

— Adam Harrington, CBS News, 3 Nov. 2026

Definition of whales

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In the photo, a cake with a gold number 3 could be seen in the center of a table, featuring what appeared to be dinosaurs on it.

— Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 6 Nov. 2026
Identifying red blood cells in dinosaurs The fossil is a partial hind limb of Aratasaurus museunacionali, a theropod dinosaur that lived during the Early Cretaceous.

— Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 3 Nov. 2026

Definition of dinosaurs

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The film, set between the years 1945 and 1947, depicts a society struggling to recover from war, only to be reduced, once again, by the arrival of a kaiju (as giant monsters are known in Japanese, and to fans of the corresponding film genre).

— Matt Alt, New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2026
The fight scene rules, and there are much, much worse things for kids to see than CGI monsters grievously injuring one another.

— James Grebey, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2026

Definition of monsters

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Almost forty thousand years ago, in the caves of Chauvet in France, someone painted lions, rhinoceroses, mammoths, and bears with striking naturalism, allowing the animals to emerge from the contours and relief of the stone walls.

— Andrew Zuckerman, Popular Science, 7 Nov. 2026
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

Definition of mammoths

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Something that looms large is wealthy business titans trying to exert profound, direct influence over American politics and policies.

— Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2026
Intermediate-mass black holes are thought to sit between these two families of cosmic titans with masses between 100 and 100,000 times that of the sun.

— Robert Lea, Space.com, 3 Nov. 2026

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