as in whale
something or someone that is unusually large and powerful
mom-and-pop stores just can't compete with these mastodons of retailing
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Recent Examples of mastodon
These predators could grow up to six feet in length, and their large skull and jaws were adapted to take down Pleistocene megafauna such as mastodons and bison.
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Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 8 Apr. 2025
These included enormous animals such as mammoths, mastodons and giant sloths that could be 10 feet tall and weigh 2,200 pounds.
—Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2025
As per Phys, Joshua Samuels described a vivid picture of these giant squirrels having once glided over rhinos and mastodons that lived in these forests even five million years ago.
—Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 25 Feb. 2025
All sorts of giant mammals existed across North America, like mastodons, sabre-toothed cats, giant sloths and more.
—Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 17 Feb. 2025
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Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 8 Apr. 2025
These included enormous animals such as mammoths, mastodons and giant sloths that could be 10 feet tall and weigh 2,200 pounds.
—Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2025
As per Phys, Joshua Samuels described a vivid picture of these giant squirrels having once glided over rhinos and mastodons that lived in these forests even five million years ago.
—Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 25 Feb. 2025
All sorts of giant mammals existed across North America, like mastodons, sabre-toothed cats, giant sloths and more.
—Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 17 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mastodon
Noun
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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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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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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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European pharma stocks fell with giants Novo Nordisk down 3%, GSK down 1.9%, AstraZeneca down 3.8% and Roche down 3.6%.—
Holly Ellyatt,
CNBC,
12 May 2025
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Before Walgreens announced plans earlier this year to become privately held in a takeover by the investment firm Sycamore Partners for more than $10 billion, the drugstore giant was in the process of closing hundreds of stores.—
Bruce Japsen,
Forbes.com,
12 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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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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Official records such as local gazettes and county chronicles didn’t have any information about the porpoises — only terrestrial megafauna like tigers and elephants, species that have frequent conflict with humans.—
Marlowe Starling,
CNN Money,
14 May 2025
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Visitors will find jaguars, tigers, tree kangaroos, crocodiles, elephants, camels, chimpanzees, rhinos, Florida panthers and meerkats, among many others.—
Kari Barnett,
Sun Sentinel,
13 May 2025
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“Mastodon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mastodon. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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