mastodons

noun

plural of mastodon
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 Ground sloths and mastodons are linked to forest habitats. — Hanna Wickes, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Mar. 2026 Other species recovered from the cave, including mastodons and ground sloths, are rare in the region. — Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 29 Mar. 2026 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. — Literary Hub, 10 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mastodons
  1. whales
  2. dinosaurs
  3. giants
  4. mammoths
  5. monsters
  6. elephants
Noun
  • The same week of sky that delivers the aurora is also delivering polar bears on the tundra and beluga whales in the estuary.
    — Cody Chomiak, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • This year, the company began offering sailboat trips for between five and 10 people to observe the whales.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 1 July 2026
Definition of whales
Noun
  • Experts are invited to experience an amusement park built around cloned dinosaurs.
    — Grace Dean, Space.com, 1 July 2026
  • This image provided by the Natural History Museum shows a fossil found in Antarctica that belongs to a group of dinosaurs called titanosaurs.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 30 June 2026
Definition of dinosaurs
Noun
  • 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.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 2 July 2026
  • There are also pieces by Rufino Tamayo, Diego Rivera, and other giants of Mexican modernism.
    — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 2 July 2026
Definition of giants
Noun
  • 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.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 June 2026
  • 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.
    — Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 19 May 2026
Definition of mammoths
Noun
  • Alas, a win feels pretty far away as of the season four finale, in which Sophia removes the only protection the town has against the monsters.
    — Josh Wigler, HollywoodReporter, 6 July 2026
  • In Homer’s Odyssey, the Greek hero Odysseus must overcome tempests, temptations, mythical monsters, and divine wrath to sail home to the island of Ithaca after the Trojan War.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 6 July 2026
Definition of monsters
Noun
  • In a victory march across the makeshift bridge, the soldiers transported 140 Carthaginian elephants from Sicily to Rome’s Circus Maximus, according to the first-century historian Pliny the Elder.
    — David Goldman, CNN Money, 8 July 2026
  • The 1965 book with Beard’s photos of elephants on the Serengeti alerted the world to the destruction of their habitat amid the population explosion.
    — Richard Johnson, New York Daily News, 5 July 2026
Definition of elephants

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