titans

noun

plural of titan
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 Some people see America now in a second Gilded Age with tech and infrastructure titans such as Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and Larry Ellison at the top of the heap. — Frank Langfitt, NPR, 30 Oct. 2026 Two Hollywood titans linking up is bound to yield some impressive results, but fans will have to dig in and wait until 2028. — David Hookstead Outkick, FOXNews.com, 28 Oct. 2026 These were titans of the home run, outlandish talents whose bats looked like toothpicks in their hands. — Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026 Unlike Maurice Liu, who burrowed into the United Nations and never wanted to leave, these fathers rose like titans. — Literary Hub, 26 Oct. 2026 The Staten Island hip-hop titans conceived of the album as a conceptual artwork, a protest against the cheapening of music in the age of widespread piracy. — Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 24 Oct. 2026 Here the Manchester-to-Liverpool line met the one that connected Bolton to Leigh—both created by one of the titans of the English Industrial Revolution, the engineer George Stephenson. — Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 23 Oct. 2026 Siebel Newsom said in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter that tech titans need to be held accountable for the harm occurring to women and girls with their tools. — Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2026 SpaceX’s Elon Musk pledged to give a share in the company to every US child, the latest effort by AI titans to win over an increasingly skeptical public. — Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 20 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for titans
  1. giants
  2. whales
  3. dinosaurs
  4. monsters
Noun
  • Anthropic itself revealed in an IPO prospectus this week that almost half of its revenue comes from fellow tech giants Amazon, Google, and Microsoft.
    — Jeronimo Gonzalez, semafor.com, 30 Oct. 2026
  • The company, which declined to disclose a valuation, also announced that financial giants Synchrony and Experian had joined the latest round as strategic investors.
    — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of giants
Noun
  • He is venerated as a patron saint of sailors, mariners, travelers, and whales.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Oct. 2026
  • In nature, larger animals, such as elephants and whales, tend to live longer than smaller animals, such as mice and shrews, Teeling says.
    — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of whales
Noun
  • The creature belonged to a family of nonavian dinosaurs known as the caenagnathids characterized by sleek physiologies and toothless beaks.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 28 Oct. 2026
  • The sale is just more evidence that dinosaurs have become serious trophy objects for wealthy collectors, joining blue-chip paintings, rare watches, and sports memorabilia at the top end of the luxury market.
    — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of dinosaurs
Noun
  • In one of the many scary dream sequences David Naughton has while becoming a werewolf, his Jewish family back home is slaughtered by Nazi monsters.
    — Vulture Editors, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2026
  • Other popular depictions of ghouls conflated them with monsters such as zombies and demons.
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of monsters

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