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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Children still play with toy cars, trains, dinosaurs or dolls.
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If your kid loves dinosaurs, this toy is a must-have.
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Through a series of measures starting in 2022, Washington has cut off China’s access to the cutting-edge GPUs, throttling Chinese companies’ efforts in competing for the top AI models with US tech giants.
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Some plan to do so especially using solar and nuclear, including tech giants Amazon and Google.
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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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Based on the popular Quebec comic book created by Samuel Parent and commissioned by and produced in collaboration with Télé-Québec, the series, aimed at 6 to 9-year-olds, follows the adventures of a fearless kid who confronts monsters that haunt children in the darkness of night.
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With no idea what's going on, Dylan flees the FBC to find that the Hiss — otherworldly crimson monsters from another dimension — have overrun Manhattan.
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Then the babydoll-sized elephant walked into the room.
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The intimate, 28-guest Zambezi Queen navigates Botswana’s Chobe River, with elephants, buffalo, and hippos appearing with a regularity that starts to feel less like a sighting and more like the river’s daily cast.
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“Mastodons.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mastodons. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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