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
While all galaxies are thought to have supermassive black holes with masses millions or even billions of times that of the sun at their hearts, not all of these cosmic titans are actively feeding.
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Robert Lea, Space.com, 8 Apr. 2026
Cloud titans are spending tens of billions on Nvidia hardware to fuel their data centers.
—Scott Nations, CNBC, 8 Apr. 2026
As tech titan Duncan Park, Magnussen is a ball of stress on the new series (premiering April 12).
—Patrick Gomez, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Apr. 2026
Stripped back to just Stephen O’Malley and Greg Anderson, the drone-metal titans explore the minutiae of microtonal vibrations on an album that sprawls like land art.
—Daniel Bromfield, Pitchfork, 4 Apr. 2026
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Robert Lea, Space.com, 8 Apr. 2026
Cloud titans are spending tens of billions on Nvidia hardware to fuel their data centers.
—Scott Nations, CNBC, 8 Apr. 2026
As tech titan Duncan Park, Magnussen is a ball of stress on the new series (premiering April 12).
—Patrick Gomez, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Apr. 2026
Stripped back to just Stephen O’Malley and Greg Anderson, the drone-metal titans explore the minutiae of microtonal vibrations on an album that sprawls like land art.
—Daniel Bromfield, Pitchfork, 4 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for titan
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The layoffs, which began Tuesday, will ripple across Disney’s television and movie studios, sports giant ESPN, its product and technology unit, corporate functions and marketing, according to a person familiar with the retrenchment but not authorized to comment.—
Meg James,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Apr. 2026
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Increasingly, tech giants are paying to construct massive plants to provide energy directly to their data centers without connecting to the grid.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
14 Apr. 2026
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Still, the whales had been known to hunt sharks off the coast of California and around Australia.—
Michael H Gavshon,
CBS News,
12 Apr. 2026
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The attraction will continue to have real arctic animals such as walruses and beluga whales on exhibit as part of its exit.—
Dewayne Bevil,
The Orlando Sentinel,
9 Apr. 2026
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The wereboar growled next to Black Pudding, a hulking vicious monster, both focused on ripping Puck and Cordelia to shreds.—
Jaclyn Cosgrove,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Apr. 2026
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Daniel Bernhardt is Deathstalker, a legendary swordsman stuck with a cursed amulet who befriends swamp monsters and teams with a mini wizard (voiced by Patton Oswalt) to stop a dark magic from ruling the land.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
10 Apr. 2026
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The university had set out to break the record in celebration of its milestone birthday and encouraged its students, faculty, staff, alumni, donors and community members to don dinosaur costumes to participate in its Rex's Jurassic Jamboree.—
Kimberlee Speakman,
PEOPLE,
14 Apr. 2026
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Jurassic Park is a classic, full of great performances, endlessly quotable lines, and all those dinosaurs moving in herds.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
14 Apr. 2026
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Fossils have also been found that indicate the islands were also once home to pygmy mammoths, which only reached 4 to 6 feet tall.—
Kate Bradshaw,
Mercury News,
23 Mar. 2026
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Surviving Earth explores the world 450M years ago featuring giant sea scorpions, mammoths and sabertooths.—
Peter White,
Deadline,
12 Mar. 2026
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On the supply side, China is a green colossus, with enough production capacity to meet its own needs — Beijing is installing solar panels at a rate equivalent to one nuclear power station every day — and sufficient left over to green the rest of the planet, too.—
Andy Browne,
semafor.com,
31 Mar. 2026
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But while those other acts continue to slog it out on the state fair/casino circuit, Journey has become a touring colossus that somehow seems to grow more popular with each passing year.—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
31 Mar. 2026
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“Titan.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/titan. Accessed 15 Apr. 2026.
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