giantess

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Recent Examples of giantess In the 1958 Hollywood movie, Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman, a giantess played by Allison Hayes squashed men like bugs until the town sheriff killed her. Jane Smiley june 20, Literary Hub, 20 June 2025 Maybe her fans didn’t recognize her because the performer is a giantess and the person is merely person-size. Lauren Groff, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2024 Maybe her fans didn’t recognize her because the performer is a giantess and the person is merely person-size. Lauren Groff, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2024 Eventually, a foresty mountain-scape is revealed to be Swift as a prone, green giantess, while Ice Spice is both sides now of a heavenly cloud formation. Chris Willman, Variety, 27 May 2023 Salerno plays 30 characters from inside a small box, ranging from a drunken couple in Las Vegas to a lonely giantess, a lost pope and the entire Greek army. San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2022 Back in the woods and trying to find a way to stop a vengeful giantess, the Baker’s Wife ends up running into Cinderella’s Prince. Vulture, 16 Aug. 2022 Leppaluoi, their dad, is lazy and stays in the cave, and their mom, Gryla, is a giantess who seeks out naughty children to add to her stew. Jennifer Borresen, USA Today, 20 Dec. 2022 In Vidura’s telling, the elephant has six heads and the traveler has been chased into the forest by a giantess, but the rest was familiar: a monster in a pit, rats and bees, the man desperately slurping honey. Hari Kunzru, Harper’s Magazine , 4 Jan. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for giantess
Noun
  • Photo by Ian Maule/Getty Images Mexico has gone without loss thus far in the 2025 Gold Cup, though things have been far from perfect for the CONCACAF giants, as Mexico narrowly defeated the Dominican Republic 3-2 in its Gold Cup opener.
    Kilty Cleary, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 June 2025
  • Lockheed Martin, July 13, 2014 The aerospace giant was among the companies allegedly hacked by a Chinese businessman in a conspiracy to steal data on the F-22 and F-35 fighter aircraft and an other programs, according to Justice Department charges.
    Jean Marbella, Baltimore Sun, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • Vexing because, for me, as for a lot of my writer peers, Beckett is a colossus—worthy of the highest regard.
    Deborah Treisman, New Yorker, 22 June 2025
  • The episode, written by Mazin, and directed by Kate Herron, is a colossus.
    Kate Aurthur, Variety, 5 May 2025
Noun
  • But staff say whales have been spotted in the area, with humpbacks finally making a return after a 25-year absence.
    Zoe Baillargeon, Travel + Leisure, 28 June 2025
  • The House Natural Resources Committee has also suggested weakening the Marine Mammal Protection Act with an apparent intent to unravel protections for species like the North Atlantic right whale and the Gulf of Mexico Rice’s whale.
    Christine Peterson, Vox, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • Mundelein is also home to the current development elephant in the county: The 700-acre Wirtz property on the village’s western edge, dubbed Ivanhoe Village.
    Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 30 June 2025
  • As the ladies stir and spill tea, the elephant in the apron is clear: Brit and Kelli still haven’t spoken since the trip.
    Shelby Stewart, Essence, 22 June 2025
Noun
  • The list of financial institutions whose accounts pig-butchering scammers have made use of includes global behemoths like Bank of America, Chase, Citibank, HSBC and Wells Fargo and many other U.S. and foreign lenders.
    Cezary Podkul, ProPublica, 25 June 2025
  • The country behemoth has held atop the ranking of the most consumed full-length in the United States for a month now, and will likely keep in first place for a while.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
Noun
  • Stunning pictures show a female baby mammoth, dating back over 130,000 years, recently being dissected by Russian scientists.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 8 Apr. 2025
  • In March 2025, Colossal unveiled its woolly mouse, engineered to carry genes for the mammoth's characteristic thick, golden coat and accelerated fat metabolism.
    Nia Bowers, USA Today, 24 May 2025
Noun
  • Financially, the matchup is a David and Goliath narrative.
    Lev Akabas, Sportico.com, 21 June 2025
  • While Israel’s crippling of the ayatollah’s nuclear and military capabilities is an impressive surprise victory of David over Goliath, the true triumph will come from the prosperity, integration, and mutually beneficial peace that ensues.
    Shervin Pishevar, New York Daily News, 19 June 2025
Noun
  • Conservatives, by contrast, paint liberalism as a cultural leviathan that has trampled traditional values underfoot.
    Ava Kofman, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
  • But how could anyone ever hope to win a fight against the federal leviathan when the people have been bought off by Social Security?
    Zack Beauchamp, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018

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“Giantess.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/giantess. Accessed 7 Jul. 2025.

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