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
Palaeoloxodon Mammoths and mastodons were not the only elephants wandering across the planet during the last Ice Age.
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Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Apr. 2025
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.
—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
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Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Apr. 2025
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.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mastodon
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Horrifying images of dead albatrosses with clusters of colorful plastic spilling from their bodies, turtles eating plastic bags and whales entangled in plastic fishing nets are testament to how this pollution is affecting marine life.—
Laura Paddison,
CNN Money,
23 May 2025
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Examples include barnacles growing on turtle shells or a whale.—
Saleen Martin,
USA Today,
22 May 2025
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The first song teaches little ones to count to 10 with the help of colorful dinosaur friends.—
Elisabeth Sherman,
Parents,
30 May 2025
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While studies have found that bed bugs have been on Earth since the dinosaurs, the estimated 90 species of the arthropods shared a fairly stable symbiotic relationship with their hosts – until human ancestors began forming societies and living in close proximity.—
Bronwyn Thompson,
New Atlas,
28 May 2025
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The gas giant's influential place in shaping our solar system is what intrigued the researchers to take a closer look it it.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
24 May 2025
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Now, as a Wall Street giant suddenly flips from gold to bitcoin, the bitcoin price is braced for a huge week that will see U.S. president Donald Trump’s vice president JD Vance speak alongside Trump’s crypto czar David Sacks at the Bitcoin 2025 conference.—
Billy Bambrough,
Forbes.com,
24 May 2025
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The message of Bring Her Back may be that grief is the real monster.—
Megan McCluskey,
Time,
30 May 2025
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Almost anyone 18 and older that appears onscreen is a monster here, and anyone younger is either prey or a means to an end.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
28 May 2025
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Another challenge lies in behavioral uncertainty—will a mammoth born to an elephant behave like a mammoth, or will its instincts be lost?—
Scott Travers,
Forbes,
15 Mar. 2025
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By seeing what’s different about the mammoth’s DNA, researchers can determine which parts of its genome were responsible for making a mammoth a mammoth, then edit an Asian elephant’s genome to express those mammoth traits.—
Mitchell Willetts,
Miami Herald,
4 Mar. 2025
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Its approach mirrors that used for the dire wolf: comparing ancient mammoth DNA with that of its closest living relative, the Asian elephant, and introducing mammoth genes associated with cold tolerance.—
Nia Bowers,
USA Today,
24 May 2025
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At the Tulsa Zoo, Billy and Tina will be joined in a 17-acre enclosure by five other Asian elephants.—
Hailey Branson-Potts,
Los Angeles Times,
23 May 2025
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“Mastodon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mastodon. Accessed 5 Jun. 2025.
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