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
Through a series of measures starting in 2022, Washington has cut off China’s access to the cutting-edge GPUs, throttling Chinese companies’ efforts in competing for the top AI models with US tech giants.
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John Liu,
CNN Money,
24 June 2026
Some plan to do so especially using solar and nuclear, including tech giants Amazon and Google.
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Alexa St. John,
Los Angeles Times,
24 June 2026
With a career spanning across software start-ups to global technology giants, Ricardo’s expertise is shaped by living and working across four continents.
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Ricardo Tavares,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2026
Some plan to do so especially using solar and nuclear, including tech giants Amazon and Google.
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Alexa St. John,
Fortune,
23 June 2026
Both chip giants are major constituents of the benchmark Kospi Index, which is up more than 3% after falling 10% in the previous session.
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Lisa Kailai Han,lee Ying Shan,
CNBC,
23 June 2026
The contributions to Becerra and Bonta are one signal that AI giants and their employees have taken notice, investing in state elections in addition to congressional races.
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Ben Paviour,
Sacbee.com,
17 June 2026
The Australian social media ban has been controversial, with American tech giants unsurprisingly reacting with alarm.
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Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
15 June 2026
International giants — ranging from France’s Neoen to Saudi Arabia’s ACAW Power — have built more than 120 utility scale projects across the country.
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Tiisetso Motsoeneng,
semafor.com,
15 June 2026
John Liu,
CNN Money,
24 June 2026
Some plan to do so especially using solar and nuclear, including tech giants Amazon and Google.
—
Alexa St. John,
Los Angeles Times,
24 June 2026
With a career spanning across software start-ups to global technology giants, Ricardo’s expertise is shaped by living and working across four continents.
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Ricardo Tavares,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2026
Some plan to do so especially using solar and nuclear, including tech giants Amazon and Google.
—
Alexa St. John,
Fortune,
23 June 2026
Both chip giants are major constituents of the benchmark Kospi Index, which is up more than 3% after falling 10% in the previous session.
—
Lisa Kailai Han,lee Ying Shan,
CNBC,
23 June 2026
The contributions to Becerra and Bonta are one signal that AI giants and their employees have taken notice, investing in state elections in addition to congressional races.
—
Ben Paviour,
Sacbee.com,
17 June 2026
The Australian social media ban has been controversial, with American tech giants unsurprisingly reacting with alarm.
—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
15 June 2026
International giants — ranging from France’s Neoen to Saudi Arabia’s ACAW Power — have built more than 120 utility scale projects across the country.
—
Tiisetso Motsoeneng,
semafor.com,
15 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for giants
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Options for activities include paddleboarding and chasing Arctic swells in the fjords, sailing through sea cliffs and the uninhabited Hornstrandir Nature Reserve, and spotting whales, seals, Arctic foxes, and more wildlife.
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Wall Street whales can’t jump into our profitable CEF pond.
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Children still play with toy cars, trains, dinosaurs or dolls.
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If your kid loves dinosaurs, this toy is a must-have.
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When the monsters reveal an evil agenda that goes beyond becoming movie stars, the Minions are forced to battle them to save the world.
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In this end-of-the-world scenario, Jack thrives on junk food and video games while gathering a squad of classmates to fight of zombies and monsters.
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This combines two titans of the industry.
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Silicon Valley titans were preparing to spend heavily to defeat them.
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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.
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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.
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Some coalitions have become massive bureaucratic behemoths, with certain coalitions claiming over 700 member groups.
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The Kospi, half the value of which is made up of just two tech behemoths (SK Hynix and Samsung), tripped another circuit breaker Friday, leading to a 20-minute trading break.
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For a species like the African elephant, with a generation time of roughly 25 years, a thousand years of evolution covers only about 40 generations.
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In other words, of the approximately 415,000 wild elephants in Africa, about 45,000 roam within the park’s boundaries.
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“Giants.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/giants. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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