as in giant
something that is unusually large and powerful
Leonardo da Vinci remains a colossus in the history of art
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Recent Examples of colossus
Among the marquee names the airplane colossus reportedly courted, sans sale, were CEOs Larry Culp of GE Aerospace, Dave Gitlin of Carrier Global, and its own chairman, Steve Mollenkopf, the former Qualcomm chief.
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Shawn Tully,
Fortune,
1 June 2026
The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) Kick off your trip with an architectural colossus—the Windy City, one of the most dynamic destinations in the country.
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Amelia Mularz,
Architectural Digest,
14 May 2026
Christopher Nolan’s Trojan Horse isn’t a towering colossus looming over the coast of Troy.
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Eliana Dockterman,
Time,
12 May 2026
His successor, Tim Cook, turned the company into a globe-spanning colossus of profit.
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Joel Mathis,
TheWeek,
24 Apr. 2026
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Shawn Tully,
Fortune,
1 June 2026
The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) Kick off your trip with an architectural colossus—the Windy City, one of the most dynamic destinations in the country.
—
Amelia Mularz,
Architectural Digest,
14 May 2026
Christopher Nolan’s Trojan Horse isn’t a towering colossus looming over the coast of Troy.
—
Eliana Dockterman,
Time,
12 May 2026
His successor, Tim Cook, turned the company into a globe-spanning colossus of profit.
—
Joel Mathis,
TheWeek,
24 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for colossus
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Through a series of measures starting in 2022, Washington has cut off China’s access to the cutting-edge GPUs, throttling Chinese companies’ efforts in competing for the top AI models with US tech giants.
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Some plan to do so especially using solar and nuclear, including tech giants Amazon and Google.
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After taking a lot of heat (lower case) over the years for failed attempts on big signings, Pat Riley finally landed another whale in Giannis.
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Options for activities include paddleboarding and chasing Arctic swells in the fjords, sailing through sea cliffs and the uninhabited Hornstrandir Nature Reserve, and spotting whales, seals, Arctic foxes, and more wildlife.
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Or will the monsters get in their way?
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Making matters worse, Christophe has a spinal condition that requires him to wear a massive metal back brace 24/7, turning him into a pre-teen metal monster.
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The sculptor has designed giant dinosaurs and monuments to his country’s independence heroes in Cutral Co, an oil-producing town that has never attracted nearly as much attention as other Patagonian communities surrounded by picturesque lakes and mountains.
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As anyone knows on the digital side of things, waiting half a year to make orders that respond to live customer action data makes for lags as long as dinosaur legs.
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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.
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When Colossal Biosciences raises capital at a $10 billion valuation, investors are not betting on the mammoth.
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The company is one of the first beneficiaries of the e-commerce giant’s $1 billion venture capital vehicle, the Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund, with the tech titan injected $150 million in funding for the robotics manufacturer in 2022.
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That would be just a fraction of the rates charged by the current twin titans of suborbital spaceflights, Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic, which price each ticket aboard their spacecraft at hundreds of thousands of dollars, Hurley says.
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“Colossus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/colossus. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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