giants

plural of giant

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Recent Examples of giants But of the two Premier League giants who have thrown their financial heft at these signings, whose is the better deal? Cerys Jones, New York Times, 24 July 2026 Despite revenue beats for both technology giants, Wall Street appeared more focused on — and concerned by — their artificial intelligence spending. Alex Harring, CNBC, 23 July 2026 Two of the biggest tech giants are locked in a head-to-head legal battle, with Apple claiming OpenAI stole trade secrets as the AI start-up plans its first hardware devices. Harriet Marsden, TheWeek, 23 July 2026 Luria, however, worried about that tangle of investments which bind the AI giants to their own customers; the love triangle of Google, Amazon and Anthropic; Microsoft and OpenAI, Nvidia and CoreWeave. Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 23 July 2026 To keep up with the ongoing AI race, tech giants are committing vast sums to build out large-scale data center projects, a long-term bet that may — or may not — pay off. Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 22 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 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
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
  • Paramount+ delivered the main full trailer for season 4 on June 15, 2026, and it’s packed with dinosaurs, cowboys, horses, space storms, dreams, nightmares, fire-breathing dragons, haunted spaceships, and hallucinatory pleasure planets.
    Jeff Spry, Space.com, 23 July 2026
  • Whatever difficulties this might create, dealing with Cassell is probably preferable to trying to get past some dinosaurs via Una’s shoot-the-dinosaur-in-the-mouth stun-and-run strategy, as effective as this turns out to be.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 23 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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