as in giants
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
Steve Jobs, despite his reputation as an intense competitor, maintained close ties with fellow tech titans, including people whose companies were directly competing with Apple.
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Preston Fore, Fortune, 23 Jan. 2026
Many gatherings, like Billboard’s Power 100 Party, Clive Davis’s Pre-Grammy Gala, and the Resonator Awards, will recognize industry titans who have and continue to shape music today.
—Jaeden Pinder, Rolling Stone, 23 Jan. 2026
For a few days, tech moguls and titans of finance wander the grounds of an Idaho resort, dining, hiking, and taking meetings to broker business deals.
—Clare Malone, New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2026
Seeing them back on top would restore one of the titans of the sport to prominence.
—Andrew Greif, NBC news, 19 Jan. 2026
Tech titans scheduled to be on hand include Jensen Huang of Nvidia.
—CBS News, 19 Jan. 2026
Travis Shinn The heavy metal titans Lamb of God have just announced their upcoming tenth studio album Into Oblivion, slated to release March 13th via Century Media and Epic.
—Quentin Thane Singer, Forbes.com, 16 Jan. 2026
David Ellison and his father Larry, Larry, the Oracle billionaire, represent a long line of corporate titans who want to buy their way into Hollywood.
—Dana Taylor, USA Today, 15 Jan. 2026
This wasn't exactly a divisional matchup of titans on Sunday.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 4 Jan. 2026
Preston Fore, Fortune, 23 Jan. 2026
Many gatherings, like Billboard’s Power 100 Party, Clive Davis’s Pre-Grammy Gala, and the Resonator Awards, will recognize industry titans who have and continue to shape music today.
—Jaeden Pinder, Rolling Stone, 23 Jan. 2026
For a few days, tech moguls and titans of finance wander the grounds of an Idaho resort, dining, hiking, and taking meetings to broker business deals.
—Clare Malone, New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2026
Seeing them back on top would restore one of the titans of the sport to prominence.
—Andrew Greif, NBC news, 19 Jan. 2026
Tech titans scheduled to be on hand include Jensen Huang of Nvidia.
—CBS News, 19 Jan. 2026
Travis Shinn The heavy metal titans Lamb of God have just announced their upcoming tenth studio album Into Oblivion, slated to release March 13th via Century Media and Epic.
—Quentin Thane Singer, Forbes.com, 16 Jan. 2026
David Ellison and his father Larry, Larry, the Oracle billionaire, represent a long line of corporate titans who want to buy their way into Hollywood.
—Dana Taylor, USA Today, 15 Jan. 2026
This wasn't exactly a divisional matchup of titans on Sunday.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 4 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for titans
Noun
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Lawmakers were pushing a measure, similar to those enacted in Australia and Canada, that would have forced tech giants to pay online publishers for the ransacking, er, use, of their journalistic content.—
Mark Z. Barabak,
Mercury News,
27 Jan. 2026
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China’s tech sector—including giants like Alibaba and Kuaishou, and small startups like DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax—is locked in a race to lead the way in AI.—
Nicholas Gordon,
Fortune,
27 Jan. 2026
Noun
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But for the population, which stands at 384 whales, to rebound from its substantial losses in the past decade, many more calves will need to be born.—
Rachel Raposas,
PEOPLE,
8 Jan. 2026
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The fewer than 100 Rice’s whales remaining live across the Gulf but are most common off Florida, and the opinion estimated that drilling will kill nine Rice’s whales through vessel strikes and seriously injure three more over the next 45 years.—
Christian Wagley,
The Orlando Sentinel,
3 Jan. 2026
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Chris Pratt is known for having action-forward roles in movies – wrestling supervillains, fighting video-game baddies, befriending dinosaurs, occasionally playing baseball, that sort of thing.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
22 Jan. 2026
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Conifers have grown on Earth for at least 150 million years, when dinosaurs roamed the land.—
Sheryl DeVore,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Jan. 2026
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But beneath his plush exterior and upbeat messaging, Buddy is an insatiably needy, controlling narcissist requiring constant affirmations of the children’s love and filling their heads with terror of the monsters lurking in the outside world beyond the park in which the show takes place.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Jan. 2026
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And the monsters are truly terrifying.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
23 Jan. 2026
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“Titans.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/titans. Accessed 30 Jan. 2026.
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