as in giant
unusually large
the Titanic was a leviathan ship by the standards of the time
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as in whale
something that is unusually large and powerful
a leviathan of the seas, that cruise ship is said to be the largest passenger vessel afloat
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Andrew Knoll, Orange County Register, 3 June 2024
Recently, the landscape has offered further validation that preindustrial Icelanders regularly killed and harvested these leviathans.
—Andrew Chapman, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2024
The values that the anarchists had been championing — a return to a more egalitarian society liberated from the twin leviathans of Big Government and Big Capital — largely disappeared from mainstream political conversation over the subsequent century.
—Steven Johnson, New York Times, 17 May 2024
The former Silicon Valley giant has since split up, and has long been overshadowed by younger leviathans like Alphabet, Apple and Microsoft.
—Michael J. De La Merced, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2024
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Clara, a 6-foot-6 leviathan who the Ducks selected in the second round of the 2023 NHL Draft (60th overall), climbed the draft board and has only seen his stock rise since last summer.
—Andrew Knoll, Orange County Register, 3 June 2024
Recently, the landscape has offered further validation that preindustrial Icelanders regularly killed and harvested these leviathans.
—Andrew Chapman, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2024
The values that the anarchists had been championing — a return to a more egalitarian society liberated from the twin leviathans of Big Government and Big Capital — largely disappeared from mainstream political conversation over the subsequent century.
—Steven Johnson, New York Times, 17 May 2024
The former Silicon Valley giant has since split up, and has long been overshadowed by younger leviathans like Alphabet, Apple and Microsoft.
—Michael J. De La Merced, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2024
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“Leviathan.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leviathan. Accessed 24 Oct. 2024.
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