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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Recent Examples of leviathan
Kevin Sabet, Newsweek, 24 Mar. 2025
The two leviathans join several mortal laptops for our performance comparisons, including the Acer Swift 14 AI AMD, the HP EliteBook 1040 G11, and the Lenovo ThinkBook 13x Gen 4.
—PCMAG, 16 Mar. 2025
But in recent years those venues have been squeezed by multinational live-entertainment leviathans like Live Nation and AEG, and many were forced to close when the Covid pandemic shut down the touring world for months or, in many cases, more than a year.
—Mark Sutherland, Variety, 5 Mar. 2025
Sand leviathans slither by minding their own business.
—Josh Broadwell, Rolling Stone, 24 Feb. 2025
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But in the last four years, the agency has veered off track—doubling in size and turning into a sprawling leviathan plagued by mission creep, financial mismanagement, and waste.
—Kevin Sabet, Newsweek, 24 Mar. 2025
The two leviathans join several mortal laptops for our performance comparisons, including the Acer Swift 14 AI AMD, the HP EliteBook 1040 G11, and the Lenovo ThinkBook 13x Gen 4.
—PCMAG, 16 Mar. 2025
But in recent years those venues have been squeezed by multinational live-entertainment leviathans like Live Nation and AEG, and many were forced to close when the Covid pandemic shut down the touring world for months or, in many cases, more than a year.
—Mark Sutherland, Variety, 5 Mar. 2025
Sand leviathans slither by minding their own business.
—Josh Broadwell, Rolling Stone, 24 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for leviathan
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Since 2013, two giant sculptures of soaring eagles with 50-foot wingspans—one of which carried the wizard Gandalf on its back—have welcomed travelers to New Zealand’s Wellington International Airport.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
13 May 2025
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Trying to wrestle the gun away from one another, the boys take shelter behind what appears to be a giant outdoor fan.—
Brian Niemietz,
New York Daily News,
13 May 2025
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The same whale had been seen floating 40 miles off the shoreline of Manasquan Inlet, New Jersey, the society said.—
Paloma Chavez,
Miami Herald,
5 May 2025
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Snorkeling and whale watching are just two thrilling experiences that Mexico’s 1,500-acre development Costa Palmas provides residents and guests along the East Cape of the Baja Peninsula.—
Demetrius Simms,
Robb Report,
29 Apr. 2025
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In the spring of 2022, Russian forces trapped a large group of Ukrainians inside a gigantic steel factory called Azovstal, in southern Ukraine.—
Simon Shuster,
Time,
16 May 2025
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What all of these cases have in common is a truly gigantic deer, and then, sadly, lots of discord within the hunting community.—
Alex Robinson,
Outdoor Life,
15 May 2025
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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
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Another one of Universal’s monsters features prominently in the Curse of the Werewolf spinning coaster.—
Patrick Connolly,
The Orlando Sentinel,
16 May 2025
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The High Plains also get plenty of love from Hill Country wineries—the Panhandle does, after all, produce the vast majority of the grapes grown in the state.—
Amanda Ogle,
Travel + Leisure,
18 May 2025
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There are the vast arcs of the avenues, the great green slashes of parks and cemeteries, the jagged field of skyscrapers, steepled and spiked like iron filings pulled up toward the great magnet of the sky.—
Helen Rosner,
New Yorker,
18 May 2025
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After dinosaurs went extinct, South America was dominated by large, crocodile-like reptiles called sebecids.—
Lillian Ali,
Smithsonian Magazine,
6 May 2025
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Hollywood regularly relies on superheroes, dinosaurs and death-defying stunts from Tom Cruise to propel the summer season, and overly familiar brands will again reign in terms of ticket sales.—
Rebecca Rubin,
Variety,
6 May 2025
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This sudden flash of light accompanied by a colossal burst of subatomic particles is called a solar flare.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
1 May 2025
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The scientists hope to eventually be able to capture an adult colossal squid on camera.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
30 Apr. 2025
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Colossal plans to use similar techniques to bring back the Ice Age woolly mammoth in 2028, editing living cell nuclei from Asian elephants—the mammoth’s closest living kin—to express mammoth traits preserved in nearly 60 sets of Ice Age remains.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
7 Apr. 2025
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Colossal scientists have done a computational analysis of the ancient genetic makeup of 59 woolly, Columbian, and steppe mammoths, ranging from 3,500 to over 1,200,000 years old.—
Mike Snider,
USA TODAY,
4 Mar. 2025
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“Leviathan.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leviathan. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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