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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
In fact, flightless feathered dinosaurs closely related to birds, but not quite birds themselves, didn’t have tertial feathers, according to the statement.
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Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2025
Archaeopteryx represents a pivotal point in the grand evolutionary journey linking dinosaurs to their avian descendants.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 14 May 2025
So why have none of them reached the size of the biggest dinosaurs?
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 13 May 2025
Hollywood regularly relies on superheroes, dinosaurs and death-defying stunts from Tom Cruise to propel the summer season, and overly familiar brands will again reign in terms of ticket sales.
—Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 6 May 2025
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Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2025
Archaeopteryx represents a pivotal point in the grand evolutionary journey linking dinosaurs to their avian descendants.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 14 May 2025
So why have none of them reached the size of the biggest dinosaurs?
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 13 May 2025
Hollywood regularly relies on superheroes, dinosaurs and death-defying stunts from Tom Cruise to propel the summer season, and overly familiar brands will again reign in terms of ticket sales.
—Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 6 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dinosaur
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Sovereigns are stuck because their tools—and their stories—are relics.—
Jules Herd,
Forbes.com,
13 May 2025
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Mao’s violent mass movement shut down schools, paralyzed the government, shattered the economy, destroyed religious and cultural relics – turmoil that only subsided after the leader’s death in 1976.—
Nectar Gan,
CNN Money,
12 May 2025
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Horrifying images of dead albatrosses with clusters of colorful plastic spilling from their bodies, turtles eating plastic bags and whales entangled in plastic fishing nets are testament to how this pollution is affecting marine life.—
Laura Paddison,
CNN Money,
23 May 2025
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Examples include barnacles growing on turtle shells or a whale.—
Saleen Martin,
USA Today,
22 May 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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Now, as a Wall Street giant suddenly flips from gold to bitcoin, the bitcoin price is braced for a huge week that will see U.S. president Donald Trump’s vice president JD Vance speak alongside Trump’s crypto czar David Sacks at the Bitcoin 2025 conference.—
Billy Bambrough,
Forbes.com,
24 May 2025
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The gas giant's influential place in shaping our solar system is what intrigued the researchers to take a closer look it it.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
24 May 2025
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Another one of Universal’s monsters features prominently in the Curse of the Werewolf spinning coaster.—
Patrick Connolly,
The Orlando Sentinel,
16 May 2025
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Dark Universe is where monsters from Universal’s classic horror films – like Frankenstein, Dracula and the Invisible Man – live on in the village of Darkmoor.—
Eve Chen,
USA Today,
16 May 2025
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Official records such as local gazettes and county chronicles didn’t have any information about the porpoises — only terrestrial megafauna like tigers and elephants, species that have frequent conflict with humans.—
Marlowe Starling,
CNN Money,
14 May 2025
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Visitors will find jaguars, tigers, tree kangaroos, crocodiles, elephants, camels, chimpanzees, rhinos, Florida panthers and meerkats, among many others.—
Kari Barnett,
Sun Sentinel,
13 May 2025
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Colossal has said their vision of restoring the woolly mammoth would not only prove that a massive extinct animal can be brought back but that the mammoth, if it could be reinserted into the Arctic region, would improve the ecosystem and help combat global warming.—
Mike Snider,
USA Today,
16 Apr. 2025
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At about nine feet tall at the shoulder and seven tons, Mammut were a little shorter and stockier-looking than mammoths.—
Riley Black,
Smithsonian Magazine,
3 Apr. 2025
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“Dinosaur.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dinosaur. Accessed 27 May. 2025.
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