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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Noun
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Keep an eye out for orca whales from the outdoor deck.—
Nicole Kliest,
Vogue,
26 Feb. 2026 -
Anderson and his team are well-known for documenting whales, dolphins and other marine mammals through photography, film and live social media videos; their catamaran, Manute’a, even features underwater viewing pods.—
Nora Heston Tarte,
Mercury News,
24 Feb. 2026
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Lee compared the survival patterns to the coelacanth, a deep-water fish that survived the mass extinction that eliminated non-avian dinosaurs.—
Hanna Wickes,
Charlotte Observer,
27 Feb. 2026
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Patagonia is one of the world’s hot spots for fossils of dinosaurs, large and small.—
Reuters,
NBC news,
26 Feb. 2026
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Those are just some examples of how Chinese startups and tech giants are rapidly expanding worldwide, one year after DeepSeek’s AI reasoning model shocked global investors.—
Evelyn Cheng,
CNBC,
4 Mar. 2026
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The unit forms part of Project Ada, a BBC plan to save at least £100M ($132M) by radically reimagining its workforce to compete with tech giants.—
Jake Kanter,
Deadline,
3 Mar. 2026
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Fans typically think of interior defensive linemen as the mammoths of the gridiron who dominate with size and strength.—
Caleb Yum,
Austin American Statesman,
26 Feb. 2026
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Unlike many slow-moving urban mammoths, this could be a model for how to integrate local desires with capitalist imperatives to deliver your friendly neighborhood megaproject.—
Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
10 Feb. 2026
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Just don’t expect monsters to respawn.—
Alan Bradley,
Space.com,
2 Mar. 2026
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And the singles were little monsters, catching hold and not letting go.—
Jen Vafidis,
Pitchfork,
1 Mar. 2026
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The outermost layer of African elephant skin, the epidermis, was known to be stiff, dry, and thick because elephants don’t shed dead skin cells.—
Clare Watson,
Quanta Magazine,
27 Feb. 2026
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If or when the elephants die, our own benighted species will surely not be far behind.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
27 Feb. 2026
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“Mastodons.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mastodons. Accessed 5 Mar. 2026.
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