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 As legislation is introduced at a record pace, shifting political views are driving more proposals that seek to restrict the tech giants. — Chris Hacker, Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2026 Nightly swarms of drones closed Russian airports, struck oil refineries or set ablaze the warehouses of retail giants Wildberries and Ozon. — ABC News, 3 Sep. 2026 Tech giants like Google have made similar moves in recent years. — Samantha Subin, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2026 Critics say these giants concentrate economic power and starve startups of capital and oxygen in Asia’s innovation race. — William Pesek, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2026 Online sportsbook giants like DraftKings and FanDuel have seen their stock values fall sharply in the last year. — Marshall Cohen, CNN Money, 30 Aug. 2026 The most rewarding part has been witnessing the power of Manoj and Boman – two giants of cinema – working together for the first time in this film. — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 27 Aug. 2026 The battle for Charlotte’s wealth Charlotte’s hometown banking giants like Truist and Bank of America, as well as San Francisco’s Wells Fargo, are competing with aggressive out-of-state newcomers to capture clients. — Charlotte Observer, 27 Aug. 2026 This is important because gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn have vast atmospheres. — Robert Lea, Space.com, 27 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for giants
  1. whales
  2. dinosaurs
  3. monsters
  4. titans
  5. mammoths
  6. behemoths
  7. elephants
Noun
  • Each summer, thousands of beluga whales migrate to the mouth of the Churchill River, to feed on small fish and nurse their young.
    — The Week UK, TheWeek, 6 Sep. 2026
  • The underwater drone, tethered to the ship with cables and about the size of a small car, was just above the ocean floor as the researchers and pilots searched for furrows potentially left by whales.
    — Fedor Zarkhin, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of whales
Noun
  • For years, the museum was a place for education and numerous exhibits open to the public, including over 30 dinosaurs and Mesozoic reptiles in the museum's Dinosaur Hall.
    — Kaitlyn McCormick, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Connect The Dots Of A Nontraditional Career Path Cover letters can be dinosaurs or game changers.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of dinosaurs
Noun
  • Their first game was Crawl, a dungeon-crawler game where your friends control the monsters.
    — Justin Kroll, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2026
  • There will be no B-movie monsters wearing terrible prosthetics, no scripts full of non sequiturs, no glitchy graphics.
    — Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of monsters
Noun
  • The potential scale of what it has been granted could make the company one of the biggest oil titans in the world.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Remember the many tech titans standing behind him at his 2025 inauguration?
    — The Week US, TheWeek, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of titans
Noun
  • 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
  • The site preserves the remains of Columbian mammoths and offers a look at Ice Age life in Texas.
    — Brandi D. Addison, USA Today, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of mammoths
Noun
  • Huge data centers are likely not going anywhere—training new frontier models and running AI models from leading companies will likely still be the purview of these behemoths.
    — Dina Genkina, IEEE Spectrum, 1 Sep. 2026
  • During that stretch of chart-position leapfrog, the song made runners-up of such chart behemoths as Drake, Bad Bunny, Bruno Mars, BTS, Olivia Rodrigo, Ariana Grande and Taylor Swift — twice.
    — Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of behemoths
Noun
  • Bringing lions, elephants, bears or crocodiles to Rome from the furthest reaches of the Empire was a way of displaying the extent of the world Rome had conquered.
    — Roberto Prieto, Variety, 8 Sep. 2026
  • At 80, Steinem celebrated her birthday by riding an elephant in Botswana.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of elephants

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“Giants.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/giants. Accessed 11 Sep. 2026.

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