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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.
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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
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
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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
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Now, the search giant is throwing a revenue bone to those sites.—
Chris Morris,
Fortune,
27 June 2025
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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
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The episode, written by Mazin, and directed by Kate Herron, is a colossus.—
Kate Aurthur,
Variety,
5 May 2025
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The parent company of Saks Fifth Avenue bought Neiman Marcus in a $2.7 billion acquisition last year, bringing both department-store behemoths under the same umbrella (along with Bergdorf Goodman).—
Nicole Hoey,
Robb Report,
8 July 2025
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Amazon shares rose less than 1% before the bell on Tuesday as the online retail behemoth kicked off Prime Day, which beginning this year, lasts four days.—
Matt Ott,
Chicago Tribune,
8 July 2025
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And likewise, some Asian animals, such as the ancestors of the mammoth, came walking through and lived in the Americas for thousands of years.—
Ari Daniel,
Smithsonian Magazine,
12 June 2025
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The logo represents the city, as mammoths used to live in Utah during the last ice age.—
Ben Verbrugge,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 May 2025
Noun
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The 11-seed Girl Next Door (Wooden Cask) continues its historic run with a spot in the Final Four, but next up is a true David vs. Goliath match against last year's champ, 1-seed Crazy Norse (Barleycorn's).—
Rasputin Todd,
The Enquirer,
2 July 2025
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Along with Waste Management, Republic is a Goliath.—
Mike Ortiz,
Boston Herald,
28 June 2025
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Conservatives, by contrast, paint liberalism as a cultural leviathan that has trampled traditional values underfoot.—
Ava Kofman,
New Yorker,
2 June 2025
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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 11 Jul. 2025.
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