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leviathans

noun

plural of leviathan
as in whales
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 leviathans Navigating the Long Tau river requires these deep-sea leviathans to turn on a dime, making for some spectacular viewing. — Loz Blain may 14, New Atlas, 14 May 2026 The biggest drag on European innovation and tech is a lack of domestic funding, not regulation, and the new rules are more likely to hurt tech leviathans whose size and network effects contribute to their addictive quality. — Parmy Olson, Twin Cities, 26 Apr. 2026 If data centers are resource-sucking, burning-hot leviathans, then Northern Virginia should be a hellscape. — Big Think, 22 Apr. 2026 And then there are the whales—Bitcoin’s own leviathans. — Clara Molot, Vanity Fair, 17 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for leviathans
  1. whales
  2. giants
  3. dinosaurs
  4. monsters
  5. titans
Noun
  • Rather than insisting that these whales continue with their life, which is a human decision, perhaps they should be allowed to die gracefully and respectfully on their own.
    — Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 26 Sep. 2026
  • The Canadian government signed off on a last-minute agreement to move its last captive whales out of the country earlier this year, saving them from euthanasia.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of whales
Noun
  • Ruddy failed to foil the Nexstar-Tegna combination or to get a $250 million compensation fund included in an FTC settlement over an advertising-giants merger.
    — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 24 Sep. 2026
  • The timing of the tech giants' flagship releases, days ahead of the summit, has revived debate over whether China's AI industry has hit an inflection point.
    — Anniek Bao, CNBC, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of giants
Noun
  • Its discovery adds to our understanding of one of the world’s premier fossil deposits and what life in Illinois looked like even before dinosaurs.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Scientists have unearthed only a handful of tracks from other dinosaurs in the wider Hell Creek Formation.
    — Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of dinosaurs
Noun
  • Districts could be drawn that look like dinosaurs, steam locomotives or Frankenstein monsters.
    — Chris West, Baltimore Sun, 19 Sep. 2026
  • However, the biggest influences behind the storytelling came from classic Universal monsters and the Hammer Film Productions horrors.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of monsters
Noun
  • The guest list includes Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, and Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, among other tech titans staking out positions on whether more safeguards are needed in the race to develop artificial intelligence.
    — Aamer Madhani, Chicago Tribune, 24 Sep. 2026
  • IonQ’s partners include artificial intelligence boom titans Amazon Web Services and Nvidia and pharmaceutical companies such as AstraZeneca.
    — Caleigh Keating, CNBC, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of titans

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“Leviathans.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leviathans. Accessed 27 Sep. 2026.

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