as in giant
something that is unusually large and powerful
Leonardo da Vinci remains a colossus in the history of art
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Recent Examples of colossus
Desperate to find a way to compete with F.D.R., a political colossus who had lately engineered the New Deal and ended the Great Depression, Willkie challenged him to a series of radio debates.
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The Editors, The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2024
This week will also feature several key earnings reports, including a release later Monday afternoon from cloud computing colossus Oracle and a Thursday report from Kroger, the largest U.S. grocer by market capitalization.
—Derek Saul, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024
In recent years, the developing world’s voracious appetite for used cars has caught the attention of senior leaders in China, an emerging colossus of automotive manufacturing.
—David Zipper, Vox, 3 Sep. 2024
Among Rocket Lab’s innovative ideas is developing the Neutron rocket, a 131-foot-tall colossus that will support big payloads and human space travel beyond Earth’s orbit.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 6 Aug. 2024
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The Editors, The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2024
This week will also feature several key earnings reports, including a release later Monday afternoon from cloud computing colossus Oracle and a Thursday report from Kroger, the largest U.S. grocer by market capitalization.
—Derek Saul, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024
In recent years, the developing world’s voracious appetite for used cars has caught the attention of senior leaders in China, an emerging colossus of automotive manufacturing.
—David Zipper, Vox, 3 Sep. 2024
Among Rocket Lab’s innovative ideas is developing the Neutron rocket, a 131-foot-tall colossus that will support big payloads and human space travel beyond Earth’s orbit.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 6 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for colossus
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In Indiana one November, bowhunter Brent Ireland got a single cam picture of a double-drop giant.Michael Hanback, Outdoor Life, 7 Nov. 2024
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The strike, Boeing's first machinist walkout since 2008, follows a turbulent period for the aerospace giant.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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The podcaster also brought up an unproven statement from his interview with Trump: that wind-turbines, a form of clean energy, are negatively affecting and even killing whales.Karissa Waddick, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2024
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Unlike the more familiar whale (Rhincodon typus) and basking sharks (Cetorhinus maximus), the megamouth remains a shadowy figure in our history books.Melissa Cristina Marquez, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
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Frankly, this is a hard argument to dispute, but the guy is ultimately the movie’s monster, so his ideology has to be sufficiently challenged by the time the credits roll.Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
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Hung was also instrumental in creating the jiangshi genre of horror kung fu in the 1980s, inspired by his childhood love of ghosts and monsters.Gavin J Blair, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Nov. 2024
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The college essay is going the way of the dinosaurs as more teachers give up on the ability to tell whether their students are writing their papers themselves.Nir Eisikovits, Discover Magazine, 14 Nov. 2024
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The devastation that wiped out the dinosaurs created ideal conditions for various fungi to thrive, and ants actually began to cultivate fungi.Popular Science Staff, Popular Science, 6 Nov. 2024
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The joke of Strings’s mammoth, self-sabotaging ego, however, can only be sustained for so long, even by very appealing actors.Sara Holdren, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2024
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The event, according to research, may have triggered a 1000-year-long ice age, wiping out many large animals, including mammoths, and dramatically marking the growth of human civilization.Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
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The post-election dynamic is reminiscent of a famous gathering of tech titans at Trump Tower in December 2016, a month after Trump’s first upset win in a presidential race, when some of the same executives braced themselves for unpredictable policy shifts.David Ingram, NBC News, 6 Nov. 2024
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Music titan Quincy Jones,legendary producer of Michael Jackson's 'Thriller,' dies at 91 Need a break?Brendan Morrow, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2024
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“Colossus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/colossus. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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