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Recent Examples of colossus The card colossus acquired the site in 2019, a year after Squeri became CEO. Shawn Tully, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2025 Today, the 1,363-room colossus still glitters with 20th-century glamour but is firmly in step with modern times. Siobhan Reid, Vogue, 5 Sep. 2025 When Moscow started blitzing Ukraine’s cities and communications towers with exploding missiles, the Western satellite colossus Intelsat swiftly mapped out strategies to keep the country from being bombed into an informational black hole. Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025 In the 1990s, Jerry Jones turned the Cowboys into an on-field juggernaut—winning three Super Bowls in four years—and an off-field colossus, becoming American sports’ most valuable franchise. Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 13 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for colossus
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Noun
  • Except buying Madrid is impossible because the Spanish giants have never been for sale.
    Phil Hay, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • This small-format alternative is a way for the home furnishings global giant to expand its footprint without spending on real estate.
    Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Driftwood tent shelters appear marooned like shipwrecks, and the beach is scattered with the bones of the giant whales.
    Chloe Berge, AFAR Media, 15 Oct. 2025
  • In recent years, activists focused on the fate of Lolita, an orca whale held captive in a shallow pool for more than a half-century.
    Jim Edwards, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Frankenstein's monster is a tortured fellow who's not a big fan of flames.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The same trigger the player would use to shoot a gun is used to throw Poké Balls at unsuspecting monsters, and there’s never been a mechanic in a Pokémon game that feels as immersive.
    Ryan Gaur, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • But this may be the first tech revolution that doesn’t vaporize the dinosaurs, the way mobile killed Nokia and threatened Microsoft, but grafts their DNA onto something new.
    Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Same for the life-size dinosaur that took over Manhattan ahead of the release of Jurassic World Rebirth.
    Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • With these tools, scientists may one day trace how microbes and mammoths co-evolved.
    Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 30 Sep. 2025
  • One likes to imagine Paleo Dad loping across the savannah in hot pursuit of a wooly mammoth.
    Inga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Last month, the White House hosted a dinner for a long list of tech titans, including Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and Microsoft’s Bill Gates.
    Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Researchers say this new snapshot offers the clearest evidence yet that binary black holes, essentially two gravitational titans bound together, truly exist.
    Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 10 Oct. 2025

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“Colossus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/colossus. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.

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