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
  • Researchers found a relationship between oyster beds and gatherings of fish and whales.
    Kelsey Warner, semafor.com, 15 July 2026
  • The facility received five beluga whales from Marineland of Canada in 2021.
    Finnegan Belleau, Chicago Tribune, 13 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
  • Over the last two seasons of Percy Jackson and the Olympians, the titular demigod (Walker Scobell) has faced off against a minotaur, sailed to the sea of monsters, been chased by Cerberus, and even magically transformed into a guinea pig.
    Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 21 July 2026
  • With the franchise’s trademark blend of extreme gore and dark humor, the Evil Dead backstory centers on the ancient Book of the Dead that unleashes supernatural evil forces and twists victims into sadistic, shape-shifting, near-invincible monsters.
    Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 21 July 2026
Noun
  • Plus, the powerful cosmic titans get really puzzling when astronomers using the JWST spot them before the universe was even 1 billion years old.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 19 July 2026
  • When the two storylines collide, Nolan stages a clash of A-list titans that throws the director’s usual cerebral machinations aside and instead satisfies his audience with some good old-fashion bloodlust.
    James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 16 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
  • That’s because private insurers tend to follow the lead of Medicare and Medicaid, behemoths that cover about 2 in 5 Americans.
    Sarah Todd, STAT, 17 July 2026
  • These digital tokens, which are pegged to fiat currencies and emitted by companies rather than a central bank, have proliferated globally, with behemoths like Tether’s USDT and Circle’s USDC dominating the marketplace.
    Camila Grigera Naón, Fortune, 15 July 2026
Noun
  • Other highlights include visits to the Tribe Art Gallery, the Golden Silk farm, and elephant conservation experiences in the Kulen foothills.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 July 2026
  • Originally coined by big-game hunters to describe the five most dangerous animals to hunt on foot; lion, leopard, elephant, rhino and buffalo, the phrase has become tourism shorthand for the ultimate safari experience.
    Sarah Kingdom, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026

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