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jumbos

noun

plural of jumbo

as in whales

something that is unusually large and powerful the winner in the contest for biggest pumpkin was a jumbo that weighed in at over a thousand pounds

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Noun

The same week of sky that delivers the aurora is also delivering polar bears on the tundra and beluga whales in the estuary.

— Cody Chomiak, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
This year, the company began offering sailboat trips for between five and 10 people to observe the whales.

— ABC News, ABC News, 1 July 2026

Definition of whales

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Yet almost 90% of new money is chasing AI giants such as Anthropic and OpenAI, leaving non-AI startups and smaller funds squeezed as the pipeline of initial public offerings narrows to a few blockbuster bets.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026
Companies of all sizes, including giants like Apple, are scrambling to secure memory.

— Kif Leswing,Katie Tarasov, CNBC, 9 July 2026

Definition of giants

Noun

The limestone cave system dates back to the Jurassic period 170 million years ago, when dinosaurs walked the earth.

— James Rampton, TheWeek, 9 July 2026
At least a quarter of the subjects interpreted the figures of speech literally, leading to the inference that dinosaurs walked the streets of 19th-century London.

— Rose Horowitch, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026

Definition of dinosaurs

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In a victory march across the makeshift bridge, the soldiers transported 140 Carthaginian elephants from Sicily to Rome’s Circus Maximus, according to the first-century historian Pliny the Elder.

— David Goldman, CNN Money, 8 July 2026
The 1965 book with Beard’s photos of elephants on the Serengeti alerted the world to the destruction of their habitat amid the population explosion.

— Richard Johnson, New York Daily News, 5 July 2026

Definition of elephants

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Alas, a win feels pretty far away as of the season four finale, in which Sophia removes the only protection the town has against the monsters.

— Josh Wigler, HollywoodReporter, 6 July 2026
In Homer’s Odyssey, the Greek hero Odysseus must overcome tempests, temptations, mythical monsters, and divine wrath to sail home to the island of Ithaca after the Trojan War.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 6 July 2026

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