GIANTS Synonyms: 42 Similar and Opposite Words

giants

noun

plural of giant

as in whales

something that is unusually large and powerful the Great Pyramids of Egypt are giants among the world's architectural wonders

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Recent Examples of giants Shapiro emphasized more than once that media giants courting audiences need to think in terms of generations and affinity groups, not the age and gender demos of yore. — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 15 Oct. 2026 Bumper earnings from bellwether tech giants Anthropic and TSMC did little to assuage a market that has turned bearish on the AI trade, sending stocks plummeting. — Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 15 Oct. 2026 According to a Bloomberg report, the two jewelry giants are in advanced talks to join the Global Diamond Consortium, which is tipped to buy De Beers from its majority owner Anglo American. — Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 15 Oct. 2026 Oftentimes, this group creates the perfect mixtape of good listening and often crowns the music industry’s next giants. — Elise Brisco, VIBE.com, 15 Oct. 2026 Now, in Quebec, aluminum giants Alcoa and Rio Tinto have begun operating the first commercial-scale, carbon-free aluminum plant. — Richard Eisenberg, Time, 15 Oct. 2026 Revenue numbers from private AI giants have also become increasingly important for tech investors. — Alex Harring, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2026 While Bagdikian mainly worried about companies that owned newspapers, TV networks and movie studios, today’s media power lies in the hands of platforms, streamers and tech giants. — Seth Ashley, The Conversation, 13 Oct. 2026 This latest group of founders stands on the shoulders of giants from the noughties like Spotify, Klarna, and Skype, who themselves took inspiration from the postwar design empires of IKEA, H&M and Tetra Pak (modernizer of the milk carton). — Jan Larsson, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2026

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Noun

Even in the deep ocean, which is filled with alien-like creatures, the whales almost feel like a master alien.

— Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2026
The Marine Mammal Center cautions against getting too close to sea lions and whales, for everyone’s safety.

— Anne Ewbank, Sacbee.com, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of whales

Noun

Instead of young dinosaurs, these were actually adult examples of an entirely separate species now known as Nanotyrannus lancensis.

— Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 15 Oct. 2026
The results were compared with the skulls of other two-legged meat-eating dinosaurs, such as tyrannosaurs, spinosaurs and raptors.

— Archie Clarke, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of dinosaurs

Noun

Next week, find out how monsters, ghouls and slashers can also mean big bucks.

— Ayesha Rascoe, NPR, 11 Oct. 2026
The story begins in 1990, when John Eng, an endocrinologist at the Veterans Administration, isolated a peptide from the venom of Gila monsters, the nearly two-foot-long lizards native to the Southwest.

— Dr. Bowman Heiden, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of monsters

Noun

The score for the forthcoming Grand Theft Auto VI will feature an original score by French electronic titans Justice.

— Katie Bain, Billboard, 15 Oct. 2026
At the time, the industry was on a major streaming binge, and the company had two titans at the helm in co-founders Kevin Mayer and Tom Staggs.

— Dade Hayes, Deadline, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of titans

Noun

In ancient California, they are believed to have existed alongside other extinct native species, including bison-sized Jefferson’s ground sloths, Columbian mammoths and western camels.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026
See fossils of the 14-foot, 20,000-pound mammoths that used to roam around Texas.

— Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of mammoths

Noun

Integrating two behemoths, paying down more than $80 billion in debt, and transforming the company into a tech-entertainment hybrid in the process.

— Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 6 Oct. 2026
Major indexes shifted lower after a quiet morning as rising bond yields undercut much of the heavy lifting being done by several technology behemoths.

— Damian J. Troise, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of behemoths

Noun

Along some stretches of highway unused turbine blades line the roadsides like giant, fiberglass elephant tusks.

— Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 13 Oct. 2026
Colossal is undertaking a similar process in their woolly mammoth project – that involves genetically modifying an Asian elephant.

— Colleen McKown, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2026

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