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also elephant
as in whales
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 elephants
For a species like the African elephant, with a generation time of roughly 25 years, a thousand years of evolution covers only about 40 generations.
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Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2026
In other words, of the approximately 415,000 wild elephants in Africa, about 45,000 roam within the park’s boundaries.
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Lydia Mansel,
Travel + Leisure,
28 June 2026
Then the babydoll-sized elephant walked into the room.
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Chelsey Sanchez,
CNN Money,
25 June 2026
The intimate, 28-guest Zambezi Queen navigates Botswana’s Chobe River, with elephants, buffalo, and hippos appearing with a regularity that starts to feel less like a sighting and more like the river’s daily cast.
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Condé Nast Traveler,
25 June 2026
However, what begins as a fight to save a dog’s life draws him into the unexpected world of animal law and becomes a series of cases on behalf of animals, culminating in an audacious Supreme Court challenge to free a zoo elephant.
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Alex Ritman,
Variety,
22 June 2026
Expect to spy herds of elephants or noisy hippos wading in the river just a few feet away.
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Todd Plummer,
Robb Report,
19 June 2026
The Dior gown that Dovima wore while posing between elephants for Richard Avedon was a Saint Laurent design.
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Brian Seibert,
New Yorker,
19 June 2026
The last two elephants, Billy and Tina, were transferred last year to the Tulsa Zoo after years of campaigning by animal rights advocates over cramped living conditions, health problems and the recent deaths of two other elephants.
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Los Angeles Times,
19 June 2026
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2026
In other words, of the approximately 415,000 wild elephants in Africa, about 45,000 roam within the park’s boundaries.
—
Lydia Mansel,
Travel + Leisure,
28 June 2026
Then the babydoll-sized elephant walked into the room.
—
Chelsey Sanchez,
CNN Money,
25 June 2026
The intimate, 28-guest Zambezi Queen navigates Botswana’s Chobe River, with elephants, buffalo, and hippos appearing with a regularity that starts to feel less like a sighting and more like the river’s daily cast.
—
Condé Nast Traveler,
25 June 2026
However, what begins as a fight to save a dog’s life draws him into the unexpected world of animal law and becomes a series of cases on behalf of animals, culminating in an audacious Supreme Court challenge to free a zoo elephant.
—
Alex Ritman,
Variety,
22 June 2026
Expect to spy herds of elephants or noisy hippos wading in the river just a few feet away.
—
Todd Plummer,
Robb Report,
19 June 2026
The Dior gown that Dovima wore while posing between elephants for Richard Avedon was a Saint Laurent design.
—
Brian Seibert,
New Yorker,
19 June 2026
The last two elephants, Billy and Tina, were transferred last year to the Tulsa Zoo after years of campaigning by animal rights advocates over cramped living conditions, health problems and the recent deaths of two other elephants.
—
Los Angeles Times,
19 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for elephants
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Options for activities include paddleboarding and chasing Arctic swells in the fjords, sailing through sea cliffs and the uninhabited Hornstrandir Nature Reserve, and spotting whales, seals, Arctic foxes, and more wildlife.
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Wall Street whales can’t jump into our profitable CEF pond.
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Experts are invited to experience an amusement park built around cloned dinosaurs.
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This image provided by the Natural History Museum shows a fossil found in Antarctica that belongs to a group of dinosaurs called titanosaurs.
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The fine is one of three antitrust penalties totaling more than $8 billion that the European Commission slapped on Google between 2017 and 2019, putting the 27-nation bloc at the forefront of the global push to rein in tech giants.
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There are also pieces by Rufino Tamayo, Diego Rivera, and other giants of Mexican modernism.
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According to this theory, those now-extinct megafauna—the giant ground sloths and the giant beavers, the mastodons and mammoths, and even the lions and dire wolves—were relatively quickly hunted to extinction.
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The artificial egg tech is the latest addition to Colossal's list of de-extinction projects, which now span dodo birds, dire wolves, and mammoths.
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When the monsters reveal an evil agenda that goes beyond becoming movie stars, the Minions are forced to battle them to save the world.
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In this end-of-the-world scenario, Jack thrives on junk food and video games while gathering a squad of classmates to fight of zombies and monsters.
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“Elephants.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/elephants. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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