as in whale
something or someone that is unusually large and powerful
by any standard, the new shopping mall will be an elephant and one that is certain to alter the retail landscape
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Recent Examples of elephant
The San Diego Zoo’s elephants, unwitting costars in the clip, gave the internet one of its most durable artifacts.
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Samantha Agate, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 Apr. 2026
The lesson is not about elephants, of course, but rather about introducing too many parameters in your model.
—Big Think, 1 Apr. 2026
Karim simply talks to his camera in a conversational tone about the elephants at the San Diego Zoo.
—Samantha Agate, Kansas City Star, 1 Apr. 2026
Nearly a year after the Los Angeles Zoo shipped off Billy and Tina to Oklahoma, animal rights activists have kept up the call to move the elephants to a sanctuary.
—Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2026
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Samantha Agate, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 Apr. 2026
The lesson is not about elephants, of course, but rather about introducing too many parameters in your model.
—Big Think, 1 Apr. 2026
Karim simply talks to his camera in a conversational tone about the elephants at the San Diego Zoo.
—Samantha Agate, Kansas City Star, 1 Apr. 2026
Nearly a year after the Los Angeles Zoo shipped off Billy and Tina to Oklahoma, animal rights activists have kept up the call to move the elephants to a sanctuary.
—Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2026
See All Example Sentences for elephant
Recent Examples of Synonyms for elephant
Noun
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The Center for Biological Diversity estimated that the Deepwater Horizon disaster harmed or killed more than eighty thousand birds, six thousand sea turtles, and twenty-five thousand dolphins and whales.—
Jeffrey Marlow,
New Yorker,
5 Apr. 2026
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The whale was discovered Saturday near Raymond, Washington, in the Willapa River, which feeds into the ocean at Willapa Bay.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
5 Apr. 2026
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Wells Fargo is giving a total of $6 million to six nonprofits to bolster housing access, job training and small businesses in west Charlotte, the banking giant announced Tuesday morning.—
Chase Jordan
April 7,
Charlotte Observer,
7 Apr. 2026
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Microsoft started as a consumer play — IBM was the 1970s’ enterprise giant, Steve Ballmer recalled last year — but got enough users hooked on its software that companies were forced to buy it wholesale.—
Liz Hoffman,
semafor.com,
7 Apr. 2026
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Their spirit animal, Alex Karaban, is a college basketball dinosaur – a four-year, plant-your-feet-in-one-place-and-stay senior.—
Dana O’Neil,
CNN Money,
6 Apr. 2026
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Tubi, Peacock, Amazon Prime Barney–the singing purple dinosaur who comes to life via the magic of children's imaginations–has been beloved over generations.—
Lynnette Nicholas,
Parents,
6 Apr. 2026
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In Nuremberg,Göring is closer to a sad clown than to a monster.—
Alice Kaplan,
The New York Review of Books,
4 Apr. 2026
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For the non-Nintendo among us, Bowser is Mario’s enemy, a fire-breathing monster and leader of the Koops.—
Dewayne Bevil,
The Orlando Sentinel,
3 Apr. 2026
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Fossils have also been found that indicate the islands were also once home to pygmy mammoths, which only reached 4 to 6 feet tall.—
Kate Bradshaw,
Mercury News,
23 Mar. 2026
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Surviving Earth explores the world 450M years ago featuring giant sea scorpions, mammoths and sabertooths.—
Peter White,
Deadline,
12 Mar. 2026
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“Elephant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/elephant. Accessed 8 Apr. 2026.
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