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Recent Examples of Goliath Instead, the Knicks are taking the good, assessing the bad, and flushing the emotion that comes with toppling the NBA’s Goliath. Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 6 May 2025 The drumbeat will only grow louder if a big-market Goliath triumphs again this October. Andy McCullough, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2025 But the pressure of going up against Goliath forces took its toll. Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald, 26 Apr. 2025 Across the Plains states, where waves of commodity grains roll like a mighty Goliath, the percentage of farmers selling food directly to consumers is below 4%. Melanie Stetson Freeman, Christian Science Monitor, 22 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for Goliath
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Noun
  • Horrifying images of dead albatrosses with clusters of colorful plastic spilling from their bodies, turtles eating plastic bags and whales entangled in plastic fishing nets are testament to how this pollution is affecting marine life.
    Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 23 May 2025
  • Warming oceans bleach coral reefs, disrupt monsoons, and alter migratory routes of birds, whales, and butterflies.
    Dianne Plummer, Forbes.com, 22 May 2025
Noun
  • Now, as a Wall Street giant suddenly flips from gold to bitcoin, the bitcoin price is braced for a huge week that will see U.S. president Donald Trump’s vice president JD Vance speak alongside Trump’s crypto czar David Sacks at the Bitcoin 2025 conference.
    Billy Bambrough, Forbes.com, 24 May 2025
  • The gas giant's influential place in shaping our solar system is what intrigued the researchers to take a closer look it it.
    Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 24 May 2025
Noun
  • Another one of Universal’s monsters features prominently in the Curse of the Werewolf spinning coaster.
    Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 May 2025
  • Dark Universe is where monsters from Universal’s classic horror films – like Frankenstein, Dracula and the Invisible Man – live on in the village of Darkmoor.
    Eve Chen, USA Today, 16 May 2025
Noun
  • In it, actors including Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey and Mahershala Ali face off against some of the most terrifying dinosaurs ever featured in the franchise.
    Becca Longmire, People.com, 20 May 2025
  • The team brought in an animatronic dinosaur from China, which had to be durable enough to use for stunts when Ellie climbs on top of it.
    Matt Minton, Variety, 19 May 2025
Noun
  • Colossal has said their vision of restoring the woolly mammoth would not only prove that a massive extinct animal can be brought back but that the mammoth, if it could be reinserted into the Arctic region, would improve the ecosystem and help combat global warming.
    Mike Snider, USA Today, 16 Apr. 2025
  • At about nine feet tall at the shoulder and seven tons, Mammut were a little shorter and stockier-looking than mammoths.
    Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Apr. 2025

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“Goliath.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Goliath. Accessed 29 May. 2025.

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