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 Ruddy failed to foil the Nexstar-Tegna combination or to get a $250 million compensation fund included in an FTC settlement over an advertising-giants merger. — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 24 Sep. 2026 The timing of the tech giants' flagship releases, days ahead of the summit, has revived debate over whether China's AI industry has hit an inflection point. — Anniek Bao, CNBC, 24 Sep. 2026 Schools say most graduates ultimately are getting jobs, although increasingly, the employers hiring aren’t tech giants but smaller businesses looking for help figuring out what to do with AI. — Heather Hollingsworth, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2026 Tech giants are racing to develop new agents and gadgets that are integrated with AI as the technology reshapes the internet and everyday life. — Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 24 Sep. 2026 Other industry giants on Raspberry’s clientele list include Skims, Alo and Walmart. — Roy Stephen Canivel, Footwear News, 17 Sep. 2026 As shoppers push back against single-use plastic and household beauty budgets tighten, refillable deodorant has moved from niche eco-brand curiosity to a category that mainstream giants are chasing. — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Kansas City Star, 16 Sep. 2026 Can Disney, Netflix and other entertainment giants build out their streaming platforms beyond video to boost profits and margins? — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 16 Sep. 2026 Critics decried Google's move as an escalation of the race between tech giants to make inroads in schools and win over the next generation of AI users. — ABC News, 15 Sep. 2026

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Noun

Rather than insisting that these whales continue with their life, which is a human decision, perhaps they should be allowed to die gracefully and respectfully on their own.

— Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 26 Sep. 2026
The Canadian government signed off on a last-minute agreement to move its last captive whales out of the country earlier this year, saving them from euthanasia.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of whales

Noun

Its discovery adds to our understanding of one of the world’s premier fossil deposits and what life in Illinois looked like even before dinosaurs.

— Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 24 Sep. 2026
Scientists have unearthed only a handful of tracks from other dinosaurs in the wider Hell Creek Formation.

— Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of dinosaurs

Noun

Districts could be drawn that look like dinosaurs, steam locomotives or Frankenstein monsters.

— Chris West, Baltimore Sun, 19 Sep. 2026
However, the biggest influences behind the storytelling came from classic Universal monsters and the Hammer Film Productions horrors.

— Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of monsters

Noun

The guest list includes Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, and Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, among other tech titans staking out positions on whether more safeguards are needed in the race to develop artificial intelligence.

— Aamer Madhani, Chicago Tribune, 24 Sep. 2026
IonQ’s partners include artificial intelligence boom titans Amazon Web Services and Nvidia and pharmaceutical companies such as AstraZeneca.

— Caleigh Keating, CNBC, 23 Sep. 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

Politico reported in 2024 that the small organization’s hefty war chest put it in the same league as organizational behemoths such as the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation and the Brookings Institution.

— Toluse Olorunnipa, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2026
And in the Album of the Year race, pop behemoths Drake and Charli xcx are nominated alongside indie icons Kevin Morby and Kurt Vile.

— Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of behemoths

Noun

The elephant would be Sheeran’s former opening act, Macklemore, who is no longer with the traveling production.

— Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 22 Sep. 2026
Atari wore elephant-print pants and a purple wizard’s cloak, and kept handy a face mask emblazoned with the words what if love wins?

— J. B. MacKinnon, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026

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