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
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The whale was first spotted swimming in the Baltic on March 3, but reports of it being stranded surfaced last week.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
29 Mar. 2026
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After the necropsy, the whale was buried on site, AMSEAS said.—
Alexa Herrera,
CBS News,
28 Mar. 2026
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The Financial Times reported Tuesday that Hegseth’s broker at banking giant Morgan Stanley contacted BlackRock in February about making a multimillion-dollar investment in its iShares Defense Industrials Active ETF.—
Lim Hui Jie,
CNBC,
31 Mar. 2026
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And American tech giants like Amazon, OpenAI and Microsoft see the Gulf states’ abundant and cheap energy and vast land as key to their AI infrastructure buildouts.—
John Liu,
CNN Money,
31 Mar. 2026
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As for which dinosaurs laid them, reporting suggests multiple species may be represented.—
Daniella Gray,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Mar. 2026
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Free admission gets you dinosaur skeletons, the Hope Diamond and a live butterfly pavilion.—
Lauren Schuster,
Miami Herald,
30 Mar. 2026
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Labubus, which look like monsters with big eyes, sharp teeth and fur, went viral in 2025, appearing on backpacks, purses and other bags all over social media.—
Julia Gomez,
USA Today,
27 Mar. 2026
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Universal Studios Hollywood visitors will be cast as extras in a monster movie that goes off the rails when a villainous character known as The Phantom Director unleashes Universal Monsters such as Frankenstein, Dracula and the Wolf Man during the park’s Universal Fan Fest Nights.—
Jeffrey Miller,
Daily News,
27 Mar. 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 4 Apr. 2026.
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