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
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.
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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
Analyzed with modern techniques, these cores have painted a picture of a once lush Greenland, teeming with mastodons, dense forests, and diverse wildlife.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 16 Jan. 2025
Experts have already confirmed the jaw, along with toe and rib fragments, belonged to an adult mastodon, one of the many that thrived across portions of North America.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 20 Dec. 2024
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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
Analyzed with modern techniques, these cores have painted a picture of a once lush Greenland, teeming with mastodons, dense forests, and diverse wildlife.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 16 Jan. 2025
Experts have already confirmed the jaw, along with toe and rib fragments, belonged to an adult mastodon, one of the many that thrived across portions of North America.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 20 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mastodon
Noun
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Researchers hoped the whales were heading southward to round Florida back into the Atlantic.—
Dinah Voyles Pulver,
USA Today,
26 Apr. 2025
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This enchanting performance, captured by divers, is believed to be part of the whale’s mating behavior.—
Stories by Real-Time news team, with AI summarization,
Miami Herald,
25 Apr. 2025
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Subjects range from a dinosaur fossil dig in Central China, the opening of Cuba to American tourists, the new energy in Vienna and the best seafood spots on Canada’s Prince Edward Island to a luxury camp in Antarctica and the best new restaurant in New York.—
Laurie Werner,
Forbes.com,
25 Apr. 2025
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The landscapes, bracketed by Russia and China borderlines, have stories to tell, from the Steppe grasslands, where Chinggis Khaan (aka Genghis Khan) once rode, to the Gobi Desert, where arid landscapes belie subterranean layers rich in coal, gold, and dinosaur bones.—
AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
25 Apr. 2025
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The Financial Times reported that crypto casinos are now approaching the size of traditional gambling giants, with industry leader Stake reporting gross gaming revenue of $4.7 billion in 2024 alone.—
Boaz Sobrado,
Forbes.com,
30 Apr. 2025
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Starbucks stock falls as sales disappoint Starbucks on Tuesday reported weaker-than-expected earnings and another quarter of same-store sales declines, but the coffee giant said its turnaround strategy is showing early signs of success.—
Lim Hui Jie,
CNBC,
30 Apr. 2025
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The Switch was a monster, so the assumption is that sure, players will pay a full 50% more for a new one, if not more.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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The trailer depicts sequences involving multiple predators fighting or threatening one another, Elle Fanning looking very strange and cool as an android, and glimpses of new monsters and the alien world the movie focuses on.—
John Timmer,
ArsTechnica,
23 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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The company intends to bring back its version of a mammoth in 2028.—
Paul Smaglik,
Discover Magazine,
4 Mar. 2025
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Five African elephants reside at the park, two of them 7-year-old calves.—
Theresa Braine,
New York Daily News,
15 Apr. 2025
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As the five elephants gathered, another three elephants were in a different area of the park.—
Teri Figueroa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
15 Apr. 2025
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“Mastodon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mastodon. Accessed 5 May. 2025.
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