giants

plural of giant

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Recent Examples of giants Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Shares of Chinese tech giants Alibaba and Baidu rose Thursday on their partnership with Apple for deploying their AI tools. Justina Lee, CNBC, 16 July 2026 Previously, geological features left behind by landslides have been found on a host of bodies in the solar system, including Mars, Ceres in the asteroid belt, some of the icy moons of the gas giants, and even Pluto's companion, Charon. Keith Cooper, Space.com, 16 July 2026 Assembly Bill 886, the California Journalism Preservation Act, would have forced technology giants to negotiate annual payments into a fund for news outlets or enter mediation or arbitration over a share of their digital advertising revenue. Ethan Baron, Mercury News, 15 July 2026 The social media ban has been controversial, with American tech giants unsurprisingly reacting with alarm. Max Goldbart, Deadline, 15 July 2026 And only audiences with excellent recall of their high-school English studies are likely to have much idea what’s going on when the man-eating giants called Laestrygonians make a rampaging appearance. David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 15 July 2026 Yet almost 90% of new money is chasing AI giants such as Anthropic and OpenAI, leaving non-AI startups and smaller funds squeezed as the pipeline of initial public offerings narrows to a few blockbuster bets. Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026 Unlike the highly fragmented standard truckload market, these giants operate primarily in the Less-than-Truckload (LTL) and intermodal shipping spaces, which feature incredibly high barriers to entry. Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 8 July 2026 The perilous three-hour saga follows Greek king Odysseus (Matt Damon) on his 10-year journey home to his wife, Penelope (Anne Hathaway), and son, Telemachus (Tom Holland), facing off with sirens, giants and sea gods along the way. Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 8 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for giants
Noun
  • The same week of sky that delivers the aurora is also delivering polar bears on the tundra and beluga whales in the estuary.
    Cody Chomiak, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • This year, the company began offering sailboat trips for between five and 10 people to observe the whales.
    ABC News, ABC News, 1 July 2026
Noun
  • Some of the other tooth traces may have been created by other meat-eating dinosaurs and crocodilians.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 15 July 2026
  • Part of his charm here included playing the stalwart father figure to two terrified kids — someone a child could trust to stick around and keep watch all night when the dinosaurs came chomping.
    Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 14 July 2026
Noun
  • With its vivid monsters and an emphatic, complex dive into the human heart, Homer has inspired countless adaptations, from stage, screen, television, comics, alongside a continuous stream of new translations.
    Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 14 July 2026
  • At their Czech–Indian wedding, Jacob and Mia’s tradition-hungry guests unexpectedly begin transforming into flesh-eating monsters.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 14 July 2026
Noun
  • This clash of could-be titans proved to be too evenly matched for much action.
    Hannah Keyser, CNN Money, 5 July 2026
  • Prior to joining Nutanix, Sam held senior leadership roles at several industry titans, including Broadcom, VMware, Cisco Systems, Palo Alto Networks, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, and Illumio.
    Sam Rastogi, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
Noun
  • 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.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 June 2026
  • 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.
    Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 19 May 2026
Noun
  • The rapid increase from 2025’s dealmaking number was powered by massive funding rounds at OpenAI and Anthropic, the AI behemoths behind ChatGPT and Claude.
    Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 13 July 2026
  • The tech companies, especially the trillion-dollar behemoths, just have so much more to offer than any other industry.
    Jim Cramer, CNBC, 12 July 2026
Noun
  • Early the next morning, we sat surrounded by a herd of 13 elephants.
    Rebekah Peppler, Travel + Leisure, 14 July 2026
  • That much pressure is like having five elephants standing on your shoulders!
    Vahe Peroomian, The Conversation, 13 July 2026

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