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
Several stores, including grocery chains and retail giants, will be closing their doors in October.
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Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
All of this amounts to a rounding error for the tech giants—averaged out, YouTube made more than $107 million from ad revenue every single day last quarter—but these are still acts of profound obsequiousness and corporate cowardice.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 1 Oct. 2025
Meanwhile, American companies are beginning to pay attention to these Chinese AI giants, forcing them to grapple more publicly with copyright protections.
—Andrew R. Chow, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
The company also missed the AI boom, having stopped making the chips that hyperscalers and AI giants like Nvidia badly need seven years ago, and ceding that market to Taiwan’s TSMC and Korea’s Samsung.
—Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2025
The stablecoin market is vast with USD1 facing stiff competition from existing giants such as Tether’s USDT and Circle’s USDC.
—Dylan Butts, CNBC, 1 Oct. 2025
The breakthrough offers the clearest picture yet of how these cosmic giants survive for billions of years without collapsing.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2025
Ellington was one of the true giants of jazz, whose music and performances gave depth and sophistication and life to the most American of music genres.
—Chris Foran, jsonline.com, 1 Oct. 2025
Combined with the impact of the 2023 strikes and Covid, the contraction of the industry has caused thousands of job losses, even at tech giants like Amazon and Google.
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 30 Sep. 2025
Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
All of this amounts to a rounding error for the tech giants—averaged out, YouTube made more than $107 million from ad revenue every single day last quarter—but these are still acts of profound obsequiousness and corporate cowardice.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 1 Oct. 2025
Meanwhile, American companies are beginning to pay attention to these Chinese AI giants, forcing them to grapple more publicly with copyright protections.
—Andrew R. Chow, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
The company also missed the AI boom, having stopped making the chips that hyperscalers and AI giants like Nvidia badly need seven years ago, and ceding that market to Taiwan’s TSMC and Korea’s Samsung.
—Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2025
The stablecoin market is vast with USD1 facing stiff competition from existing giants such as Tether’s USDT and Circle’s USDC.
—Dylan Butts, CNBC, 1 Oct. 2025
The breakthrough offers the clearest picture yet of how these cosmic giants survive for billions of years without collapsing.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2025
Ellington was one of the true giants of jazz, whose music and performances gave depth and sophistication and life to the most American of music genres.
—Chris Foran, jsonline.com, 1 Oct. 2025
Combined with the impact of the 2023 strikes and Covid, the contraction of the industry has caused thousands of job losses, even at tech giants like Amazon and Google.
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 30 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for giants
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Neytiri, Jake, Tonowari, and Ronal attend a watery council meeting of nine Tulkun whales, and Spider, a human capable of breathing on Pandora, is shown merging with Eywa.—
Jeff Spry,
Space.com,
1 Oct. 2025
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Inspired by nature, SandboxAQ’s solution uses Earth’s magnetic field like birds and whales do.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
26 Sep. 2025
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Almost all of the largest plant and animal species on Earth were driven to extinction, including all of the non-avian dinosaurs and the last of the flying reptiles.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
2 Oct. 2025
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It's also believed that crabs of this species survived after a meteorite struck Earth around 66 million years ago, the infamous event that led to the extinction of dinosaurs.—
Scott Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
2 Oct. 2025
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Putting Scooby-Doo and the gang up against real monsters creates some great storytelling opportunities.—
Robert Niles,
Oc Register,
30 Sep. 2025
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Fincher’s take on Flynn’s phenomenon is one of our best literary adaptations of the decade, and while there are no literal monsters in it, there’s nothing spookier than a cool girl.—
Emily Temple
September 30,
Literary Hub,
30 Sep. 2025
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Mass Appeal and Marvel have joined forces to create an exclusive, limited edition comic book series honoring some of hip-hop’s biggest titans.—
Mackenzie Cummings-Grady,
Billboard,
30 Sep. 2025
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Industry titans are embracing a new generation of technologies that promise lifted features and age-defying results with modest to no downtime.—
Elycia Rubin,
HollywoodReporter,
29 Sep. 2025
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Colossal's de-extinction projects now span dodos, dire wolves, mammoths, and moas.—
Moná Thomas,
PEOPLE,
17 Sep. 2025
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These were places rich with prey like bison, camels, horses and even young mammoths.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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The full universe of printers covers a lot of territory, from portable photo printers to floor-standing behemoths.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
30 Sep. 2025
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On top of that, regional conferences have realigned into national behemoths like the Big 10.—
Burgess Everett,
semafor.com,
30 Sep. 2025
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Other live cameras monitoring elephants, lions and naked mole-rats also remain active during the shutdown.—
Sudiksha Kochi,
USA Today,
2 Oct. 2025
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Analysis of loop-like bag openings found in female graves from the fifth to seventh century revealed that these were made from African elephant ivory.—
Duncan Sayer,
JSTOR Daily,
2 Oct. 2025
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“Giants.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/giants. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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