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 In a report this month that sharply criticized data center giants including Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft, several Senate Democrats said companies have used nondisclosure agreements to freeze out the public. — Marc Levy, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026 In a report this month that sharply criticized data center giants including Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft, several Senate Democrats said companies have used non-disclosure agreements to freeze out the public. — Marc Levy, Chicago Tribune, 22 Oct. 2026 The two tech giants joined Goldman Sachs, Caterpillar, McDonald’s, Qualcomm, and Western Digital in a new batch of objections disclosed Monday. — Camila Grigera Naón, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2026 The performance gap between Wall Street's giants and rivals including Bank of America and Citigroup highlights a widening divide in capital markets. — Hugh Son, CNBC, 21 Oct. 2026 South Korean giants Samsung and SK Hynix are reportedly upgrading their production facilities in China to make more advanced memory chips to meet the Asian giant’s growing appetite. — Jeronimo Gonzalez, semafor.com, 21 Oct. 2026 In 2025, Kenneth Lavíll, Drew Venegas, Gabi Bermúdez, Kauê Penna and Alejandro Aramburú became the first Latin boy band under HYBE, known for forming successful groups such as K-pop giants BTS and girl group KATSEYE. — Natalia Cano, Billboard, 20 Oct. 2026 According to a Bloomberg report, the two jewelry giants are in advanced talks to join the Global Diamond Consortium, which is tipped to buy De Beers from its majority owner Anglo American. — Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 15 Oct. 2026 Now, in Quebec, aluminum giants Alcoa and Rio Tinto have begun operating the first commercial-scale, carbon-free aluminum plant. — Richard Eisenberg, Time, 15 Oct. 2026

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Noun

Organisms not resistant to this onslaught—anything from microbes and crops to whales and humans—would experience an almost violently severe sunburn.

— Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
Five mammal groups – primates, carnivores, whales, elephants and rhinos – received 86% of available funding, despite accounting for only one-third of threatened mammal projects.

— David Ginsburg, The Conversation, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of whales

Noun

Set on a mysterious island ravaged by floods and warring armies, a masked boy and girl must traverse atmospheric environments, rescue friends, and confront nightmarish monsters.

— K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 23 Oct. 2026
Wētā is famous for its monsters and sci-fi creatures, so making a romantic lead gave the creatives a unique challenge.

— Emily Maskell, IndieWire, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of monsters

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Siebel Newsom said in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter that tech titans need to be held accountable for the harm occurring to women and girls with their tools.

— Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2026
As long as demand for computing power exceeds the supply, these Big Tech titans will have the incentive to keep building.

— John Towfighi, CNN Money, 20 Oct. 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

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While invisible themselves, these cosmic behemoths reveal their presence by bending the light of nearby objects, and the Black Hole Hunters project is searching for one specific manifestation of this effect.

— Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 18 Oct. 2026
Prior to Bending Spoons' recent jump into enterprise software, some of the leading acquirers in the space over the past decade were private equity behemoths Thoma Bravo and Vista Equity Partners.

— CJ Haddad, CNBC, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of behemoths

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Five mammal groups – primates, carnivores, whales, elephants and rhinos – received 86% of available funding, despite accounting for only one-third of threatened mammal projects.

— David Ginsburg, The Conversation, 20 Oct. 2026
The 18-year-old female elephant got loose from her handler outside her enclosure, then went on the run, demolishing the door of a saloon on North Avenue, smashing in the window of another and walking through the fence around a vacant lot.

— Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2026

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