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
He’s best known for breaking up that colossus, which is spurring speculation that PayPal’s board intends to sell off segments of the firm’s business.
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Bloomberg, Mercury News, 10 Feb. 2026
The pope, at this very moment, is having the fallen part of the Colosseum rebuilt; half a dozen mason’s apprentices, without any scaffolding, are righting the colossus on whose shoulders a nation, transformed into slave laborers, perished.
—Sean Williams, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
One wonders how many of the Mecum audience this year had family members keeping themselves entertained at the adjacent entertainment colossus.
—New Atlas, 23 Jan. 2026
Last month, the Warner board spurned the Ellisons’ and Paramount’s offer and agreed to sell its movie-and-TV studio and the HBO Max service to Netflix, creating a potential streaming colossus.
—Reeves Wiedeman, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2026
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Bloomberg, Mercury News, 10 Feb. 2026
The pope, at this very moment, is having the fallen part of the Colosseum rebuilt; half a dozen mason’s apprentices, without any scaffolding, are righting the colossus on whose shoulders a nation, transformed into slave laborers, perished.
—Sean Williams, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
One wonders how many of the Mecum audience this year had family members keeping themselves entertained at the adjacent entertainment colossus.
—New Atlas, 23 Jan. 2026
Last month, the Warner board spurned the Ellisons’ and Paramount’s offer and agreed to sell its movie-and-TV studio and the HBO Max service to Netflix, creating a potential streaming colossus.
—Reeves Wiedeman, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for colossus
Noun
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Those are just some examples of how Chinese startups and tech giants are rapidly expanding worldwide, one year after DeepSeek’s AI reasoning model shocked global investors.—
Evelyn Cheng,
CNBC,
4 Mar. 2026
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In addition to expanding its work with Visa, Bridge will participate in an ongoing pilot from the payments network giant that explores the feasibility of settling charges with stablecoins on blockchains, instead of traditional bank transfers.—
Ben Weiss,
Fortune,
3 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The 80-foot-long grinning behemoth floating in a roadside pond was built as an anniversary gift for the owner’s whale-loving wife.—
Zoey Goto,
Travel + Leisure,
8 Mar. 2026
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In addition to a long music career, McDonald remained politically active, advocating on behalf of saving the whales and helping Vietnam War veterans.—
Daniel Kreps,
Rolling Stone,
8 Mar. 2026
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The Bride not looking like a monster and retaining her desirability after reanimation is common, but only sometimes interrogated.—
Rory Doherty,
Time,
7 Mar. 2026
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Whale, and later fellow directors Franc Rodman, Branagh and now Gyllenhaal, imagined what might have happened if Frankenstein had completed the female monster.—
Leah Dolan,
CNN Money,
6 Mar. 2026
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The genus Acanthochitona — the specific group to which feroxa belongs — developed about 92 million years ago during the Late Cretaceous, when dinosaurs still roamed the Earth.—
Hanna Wickes,
Miami Herald,
3 Mar. 2026
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There are several activities on the docket, including a slime bar, temporary tattoos, dinosaur excavation, bubble area, live doodle booth, mobile noble planetarium and more.—
Brayden Garcia,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
3 Mar. 2026
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Unlike typical mice with short gray-brown coats, these woolly mice have long dirty-blond hair that mimics the shaggy fur that helped protect mammoths from the Arctic cold.—
Rob Stein,
NPR,
4 Mar. 2026
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Fans typically think of interior defensive linemen as the mammoths of the gridiron who dominate with size and strength.—
Caleb Yum,
Austin American Statesman,
26 Feb. 2026
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But that doesn’t mean that these titans of our tomorrow are leaving their futures in the Orange Man’s hands.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Mar. 2026
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As of late, this trend has been compounded by the rise of artificial intelligence among tech titans like Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and Google.—
Elliot Mann,
Twin Cities,
5 Mar. 2026
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“Colossus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/colossus. Accessed 11 Mar. 2026.
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