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as in relic
one that has passed the peak of effectiveness or popularity
as an old-time big-city boss, he's become something of a dinosaur in today's political world
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as in whale
something or someone that is unusually large and powerful
not that his small lawn needed such a dinosaur, but he bought a riding mower anyway
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Recent Examples of dinosaur
More than two decades ago in the small town of Tumbler Ridge, nestled in the Canadian Rockies, two young boys found dinosaur tracks.
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Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 17 Apr. 2025
After a meteor contributed to a mass extinction event that killed of all the dinosaurs, only the aquatic and semi-aquatic crocodylomorphs remained.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 16 Apr. 2025
Pick ones that align with their interests, such as kittens, sports, spaceships, dinosaurs, or unicorns.
—Erinne Magee, Parents, 16 Apr. 2025
To understand better what was going on at the time of the dinosaurs’ demise, Dean and his colleagues turned to a statistical approach called occupancy modeling to estimate the probability of a dinosaur being present at a site.
—Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 11 Apr. 2025
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Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 17 Apr. 2025
After a meteor contributed to a mass extinction event that killed of all the dinosaurs, only the aquatic and semi-aquatic crocodylomorphs remained.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 16 Apr. 2025
Pick ones that align with their interests, such as kittens, sports, spaceships, dinosaurs, or unicorns.
—Erinne Magee, Parents, 16 Apr. 2025
To understand better what was going on at the time of the dinosaurs’ demise, Dean and his colleagues turned to a statistical approach called occupancy modeling to estimate the probability of a dinosaur being present at a site.
—Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 11 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dinosaur
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In evolutionary terms, Vasuki is a relic from a vanished world — a creature forged in solitude and set loose by tectonic chaos.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
22 Apr. 2025
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Holly Messinger, the textiles conservator at The Arabia Steamboat Museum, carefully laid out the pieces of a frock coat, an 1850’s relic recovered from the bottom of the Missouri River.—
Tammy Ljungblad,
Kansas City Star,
22 Apr. 2025
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Researchers hoped the whales were heading southward to round Florida back into the Atlantic.—
Dinah Voyles Pulver,
USA Today,
26 Apr. 2025
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This enchanting performance, captured by divers, is believed to be part of the whale’s mating behavior.—
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Miami Herald,
25 Apr. 2025
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Sun-soaked, punk rock ’70s California, a fraught family safari in Africa, a frustrated has-been and a digital future portrayed in a PowerPoint presentation show how disparate lives can affect each other.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Apr. 2025
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Her being nominated for playing a grotesque has-been is, at the very least, a delicious irony.—
Tom Gliatto,
People.com,
2 Mar. 2025
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The result was free publicity for Novo Nordisk, the Danish pharmaceutical giant behind Ozempic and Wegovy.—
Jesus Mesa,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Apr. 2025
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With each match, including a 1-0 victory over the Brazilian giant, residents still reeling from a financial crisis were lifted out of their funk, carried along on a country-consuming wave of hope as the men’s national team sought to qualify for the World Cup for the first time.—
Lewis Gordon,
New York Times,
30 Apr. 2025
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The Switch was a monster, so the assumption is that sure, players will pay a full 50% more for a new one, if not more.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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Oviedo and Sepúlveda shared with las Casas the view that Indians were not monsters and did, in fact, have souls that could be saved (a matter of debate for much of the sixteenth century).—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
23 Apr. 2025
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As the five elephants gathered, another three elephants were in a different area of the park.—
Teri Figueroa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
15 Apr. 2025
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Five African elephants reside at the park, two of them 7-year-old calves.—
Theresa Braine,
New York Daily News,
15 Apr. 2025
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Colossal plans to use similar techniques to bring back the Ice Age woolly mammoth in 2028, editing living cell nuclei from Asian elephants—the mammoth’s closest living kin—to express mammoth traits preserved in nearly 60 sets of Ice Age remains.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
7 Apr. 2025
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The company intends to bring back its version of a mammoth in 2028.—
Paul Smaglik,
Discover Magazine,
4 Mar. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Dinosaur.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dinosaur. Accessed 6 May. 2025.
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