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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 titans
These totals are minuscule compared with some of the titans of Esports gaming.
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Jon Martindale, PC Magazine, 10 Apr. 2026
Their show is a high-energy mix of friendly interviews with tech titans, industry gossip, and celebrations of funding rounds and other successes that involve banging a giant gong.
—Shannon Bond, NPR, 8 Apr. 2026
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.
—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
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
According to the Jackelen/Sharp research titans, that would be precisely one … a fellow named Dylan Moore.
—Jayson Stark, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2026
The tech titans and Schultz join Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, PayPal and Palantir cofounder Peter Thiel, Citadel founder Ken Griffin, and Oracle cofounder Larry Ellison, who have all bought property or moved their companies’ operations to Florida in the past couple of years.
—Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 2 Apr. 2026
And that idea, of having a seat at the table, could never be more relevant at a time where tech titans seem to be gambling with the future of humanity.
—Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 1 Apr. 2026
Jon Martindale, PC Magazine, 10 Apr. 2026
Their show is a high-energy mix of friendly interviews with tech titans, industry gossip, and celebrations of funding rounds and other successes that involve banging a giant gong.
—Shannon Bond, NPR, 8 Apr. 2026
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.
—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
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
According to the Jackelen/Sharp research titans, that would be precisely one … a fellow named Dylan Moore.
—Jayson Stark, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2026
The tech titans and Schultz join Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, PayPal and Palantir cofounder Peter Thiel, Citadel founder Ken Griffin, and Oracle cofounder Larry Ellison, who have all bought property or moved their companies’ operations to Florida in the past couple of years.
—Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 2 Apr. 2026
And that idea, of having a seat at the table, could never be more relevant at a time where tech titans seem to be gambling with the future of humanity.
—Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 1 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for titans
Noun
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While these tech giants incorporate their AI chips as part of their respective cloud computing platforms so customers can access them, Meta's MTIA chips are used entirely for internal purposes.—
Katie Tarasov,Jordan Novet,
CNBC,
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
Noun
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Humans, not whales, at fault, others say Not everyone believes the case has been solved.—
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
Noun
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Small plastic children’s toys lined at the top of the car — dinosaurs and dump trucks and sharks — creating their own shrunken skyline in front of the Vertigo, signaling that young kids likely lived there.—
Julissa James,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Apr. 2026
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Though not as big or catastrophic as the asteroid theorized to have wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago, Apophis would cause widespread destruction up to several hundred kilometers from its impact site.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
16 Apr. 2026
Noun
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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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Both were monsters on the boards and couldn’t be stopped at times inside.—
Kels Dayton,
Hartford Courant,
8 Apr. 2026
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“Titans.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/titans. Accessed 19 Apr. 2026.
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