as in whale
something or someone that is unusually large and powerful
by any standard, the new shopping mall will be an elephant and one that is certain to alter the retail landscape
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Recent Examples of elephant
Eventually, he was euthanized at the zoo’s elephant barn at Sanctuary Asia, officials said.
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Paloma Chavez, Kansas City Star, 14 Jan. 2025
For the mammoth, that animal is the Asian elephant.
—Katie Hunt, CNN, 16 Jan. 2025
Maybe most striking, however, is the case of Tip, an Asian elephant shipped across the Atlantic Ocean to a New York City zoo in the late 1880s.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 15 Jan. 2025
Asian elephants often live into their mid-50s, according to Smithsonian’s National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute.
—Paloma Chavez, Kansas City Star, 14 Jan. 2025
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Paloma Chavez, Kansas City Star, 14 Jan. 2025
For the mammoth, that animal is the Asian elephant.
—Katie Hunt, CNN, 16 Jan. 2025
Maybe most striking, however, is the case of Tip, an Asian elephant shipped across the Atlantic Ocean to a New York City zoo in the late 1880s.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 15 Jan. 2025
Asian elephants often live into their mid-50s, according to Smithsonian’s National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute.
—Paloma Chavez, Kansas City Star, 14 Jan. 2025
See all Example Sentences for elephant
Recent Examples of Synonyms for elephant
Noun
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While manatees have a large, rounded and almost spoon-like tail, the tail of a dugong is fluked, looking more like the tail of a whale, according to the Marine Mammal Center.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
3 Feb. 2025
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For me, the deepest resonance has to do with appreciating whales and dolphins as sentient beings, as creatures that share the planet with us, and that’s still a very moving idea.—
Georg Szalai,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 Feb. 2025
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South Korean online gaming giant Krafton, controlled by billionaire Chang Byung-gyu, has led a 4.5 billion rupees ($53 million) financing round in Indian startup Cashfree Payments.—
Zinnia Lee,
Forbes,
5 Feb. 2025
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The New Orleans Saints needed a new naming rights partner in 2020 when auto giant Mercedes-Benz decided to not renew its contract after inking a long-term stadium deal with the rival Atlanta Falcons.—
Eric Jackson,
Sportico.com,
5 Feb. 2025
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This can be seen first-hand with sites like the 66-million-year-old Chicxulub crater in the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico (thought to be the reason for mass dinosaur extinction) and the 50,000-year-old Meteor Crater in northern Arizona.—
Jack Knudson,
Discover Magazine,
31 Jan. 2025
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There are dinosaurs, superheroes and whimsical designs.—
Jené Luciani Sena,
Fox News,
31 Jan. 2025
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The creature towers over one of Peter's fellow students which spurs him into action, distracting the monster long enough for Dr. Strange to wrangle it and haul it back through one of his signature portals.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
30 Jan. 2025
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For now, questions that seem to have no answers persist: How Hitler’s cult of personality could create such monsters and how so much of a nation could have committed such crimes.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
29 Jan. 2025
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This team wants to resurrect the mammoth, the flightless dodo and Tasmanian tiger, an Australian marsupial that went extinct in 1936.—
Katie Hunt,
CNN,
16 Jan. 2025
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Rife is set to embark on his mammoth The Stay Golden Tour next year which includes a large slate of North American shows that kick off on March 8 in Dallas and conclude in Boston on Dec. 31, 2025, with 30 stops scheduled between those dates.—
Jay Stahl,
USA TODAY,
3 Dec. 2024
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“Elephant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/elephant. Accessed 10 Feb. 2025.
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