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 Andersen predicts security concerns will ultimately keep China’s turbine giants from conquering the continent. — Sam Birchall, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026 As rural communities across the United States wage intensifying battles to keep AI-computing data centers out of their backyards, some tech giants are mulling methods that could sidestep such local resentment — by sending the facilities to space. — Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2026 Chinese tech giants DeepSeek and Huawei announced a partnership to develop semiconductor software, part of an array of efforts to reduce China’s reliance on US chipmakers and challenge American AI dominance. — Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 1 Oct. 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 Other industry giants on Raspberry’s clientele list include Skims, Alo and Walmart. — Roy Stephen Canivel, Footwear News, 17 Sep. 2026

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Noun

For decades, the seabirds have pecked at whales surfacing to breathe, gorging on their skin and blubber.

— ABC News, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2026
The new interpretations of the Endangered Species Act remove some of the legal basis for enforcing rules for noisy seismic surveys, speed limits on vessels and restrictions on shipping routes designed to help protect the whales from harm.

— Timothy Randhir, The Conversation, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of whales

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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
For the dinosaurs that survived the initial blast, the world became an unforgiving wilderness of starvation and severe climate shifts.

— Kevin Brown, Forbes.com, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of dinosaurs

Noun

The main three projects — The Mummy, The Loudest Voice and Unabomber — each involve monsters in various forms.

— Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 3 Oct. 2026
The world has seen many hurricanes rapidly intensify in recent years, strengthening from relatively weak storms into destructive monsters in a matter of hours.

— Chanh Kieu, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of monsters

Noun

But compared to galaxies, which can host 100 billion similarly sized star systems, even these cosmic titans are relatively small in stature.

— Robert Lea, Space.com, 2 Oct. 2026
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

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

Two sets of Brooks River behemoths duke it out, including last year’s champion, Bear #32 (Chunk).

— Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 25 Sep. 2026
The four experts each have ties to academia, tech behemoths like Google and X, and the Obama and Biden administrations.

— Lia Russell, Sacbee.com, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of behemoths

Noun

Yet, some birds can sing louder than animals much bigger than them, such as elephants, lions or bison, which indicates another mechanism is at play that allows birds to be loud that is yet to be discovered, the researchers noted.

— Amarachi Orie, CNN Money, 29 Sep. 2026
The 11,700-square-foot house is part of Thanda Safari, a roughly 40,000-acre private game reserve where elephants, lions, leopards, rhinos, and buffalo roam and giraffes and zebras can sometimes be spotted right from the home.

— Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 29 Sep. 2026

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