as in whales
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 mastodons
According to this theory, those now-extinct megafauna—the giant ground sloths and the giant beavers, the mastodons and mammoths, and even the lions and dire wolves—were relatively quickly hunted to extinction.
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Literary Hub,
10 June 2026
Other species recovered from the cave, including mastodons and ground sloths, are rare in the region.
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Hanna Wickes,
Miami Herald,
29 Mar. 2026
Ground sloths and mastodons are linked to forest habitats.
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Hanna Wickes,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
29 Mar. 2026
Literary Hub,
10 June 2026
Other species recovered from the cave, including mastodons and ground sloths, are rare in the region.
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Hanna Wickes,
Miami Herald,
29 Mar. 2026
Ground sloths and mastodons are linked to forest habitats.
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Hanna Wickes,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
29 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mastodons
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Options for activities include paddleboarding and chasing Arctic swells in the fjords, sailing through sea cliffs and the uninhabited Hornstrandir Nature Reserve, and spotting whales, seals, Arctic foxes, and more wildlife.
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Wall Street whales can’t jump into our profitable CEF pond.
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Experts are invited to experience an amusement park built around cloned dinosaurs.
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This image provided by the Natural History Museum shows a fossil found in Antarctica that belongs to a group of dinosaurs called titanosaurs.
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The fine is one of three antitrust penalties totaling more than $8 billion that the European Commission slapped on Google between 2017 and 2019, putting the 27-nation bloc at the forefront of the global push to rein in tech giants.
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There are also pieces by Rufino Tamayo, Diego Rivera, and other giants of Mexican modernism.
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According to this theory, those now-extinct megafauna—the giant ground sloths and the giant beavers, the mastodons and mammoths, and even the lions and dire wolves—were relatively quickly hunted to extinction.
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The artificial egg tech is the latest addition to Colossal's list of de-extinction projects, which now span dodo birds, dire wolves, and mammoths.
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When the monsters reveal an evil agenda that goes beyond becoming movie stars, the Minions are forced to battle them to save the world.
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In this end-of-the-world scenario, Jack thrives on junk food and video games while gathering a squad of classmates to fight of zombies and monsters.
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For a species like the African elephant, with a generation time of roughly 25 years, a thousand years of evolution covers only about 40 generations.
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In other words, of the approximately 415,000 wild elephants in Africa, about 45,000 roam within the park’s boundaries.
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“Mastodons.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mastodons. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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