as in giant
something that is unusually large and powerful
this newest ocean liner is a true titan of the sea
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Recent Examples of titan
Private arts funding soared during this period, with some titans of industry, such as Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller, seeing it as their duty to build museums, theaters and libraries for the public.
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Johanna K. Taylor, The Conversation, 18 Apr. 2025
In that sense, the titans of tech are unabashedly masculine.
—Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 16 Apr. 2025
With Hunter — an absolute titan of the music video form — as the series’ primary director, Government Cheese is packed with briefly evocative visual ideas and trippy aesthetics.
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 15 Apr. 2025
Here’s hoping these two titans of the game meet one more time in the postseason before they’re done.
—Josh Yohe, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2025
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Johanna K. Taylor, The Conversation, 18 Apr. 2025
In that sense, the titans of tech are unabashedly masculine.
—Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 16 Apr. 2025
With Hunter — an absolute titan of the music video form — as the series’ primary director, Government Cheese is packed with briefly evocative visual ideas and trippy aesthetics.
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 15 Apr. 2025
Here’s hoping these two titans of the game meet one more time in the postseason before they’re done.
—Josh Yohe, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for titan
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Bud Light, owned by beer giant Anheuser-Busch, suffered plummeting sales following backlash in 2023 over a social media campaign with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney.—
Lori Comstock,
USA Today,
30 Apr. 2025
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The Financial Times reported that crypto casinos are now approaching the size of traditional gambling giants, with industry leader Stake reporting gross gaming revenue of $4.7 billion in 2024 alone.—
Boaz Sobrado,
Forbes.com,
30 Apr. 2025
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Researchers hoped the whales were heading southward to round Florida back into the Atlantic.—
Dinah Voyles Pulver,
USA Today,
26 Apr. 2025
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This enchanting performance, captured by divers, is believed to be part of the whale’s mating behavior.—
Stories by Real-Time news team, with AI summarization,
Miami Herald,
25 Apr. 2025
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The Switch was a monster, so the assumption is that sure, players will pay a full 50% more for a new one, if not more.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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The trailer depicts sequences involving multiple predators fighting or threatening one another, Elle Fanning looking very strange and cool as an android, and glimpses of new monsters and the alien world the movie focuses on.—
John Timmer,
ArsTechnica,
23 Apr. 2025
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Subjects range from a dinosaur fossil dig in Central China, the opening of Cuba to American tourists, the new energy in Vienna and the best seafood spots on Canada’s Prince Edward Island to a luxury camp in Antarctica and the best new restaurant in New York.—
Laurie Werner,
Forbes.com,
25 Apr. 2025
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The landscapes, bracketed by Russia and China borderlines, have stories to tell, from the Steppe grasslands, where Chinggis Khaan (aka Genghis Khan) once rode, to the Gobi Desert, where arid landscapes belie subterranean layers rich in coal, gold, and dinosaur bones.—
AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
25 Apr. 2025
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Colossal plans to use similar techniques to bring back the Ice Age woolly mammoth in 2028, editing living cell nuclei from Asian elephants—the mammoth’s closest living kin—to express mammoth traits preserved in nearly 60 sets of Ice Age remains.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
7 Apr. 2025
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Colossal scientists have done a computational analysis of the ancient genetic makeup of 59 woolly, Columbian, and steppe mammoths, ranging from 3,500 to over 1,200,000 years old.—
Mike Snider,
USA TODAY,
4 Mar. 2025
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Gone is the cosy globalised world of Bill Clinton and even George W Bush, where America was a benevolent colossus, keeping the peace, spurring prosperity, and putting out financial fires.—
Mike O'Sullivan,
Forbes.com,
5 Apr. 2025
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Bezos founded e-commerce colossus Amazon out of his Seattle garage in 1994.—
Connor Greene,
Forbes,
21 Dec. 2024
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“Titan.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/titan. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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