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Recent Examples of giantess
Maybe her fans didn’t recognize her because the performer is a giantess and the person is merely person-size.
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Lauren Groff, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2024
The work has drawn protests as well as a lawsuit from leaders in the local art and design community, who see the giantess with her white dress blowing up above her waist as cheesy, sexist, or both.
—The Editors Of Artnews, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2019
Eventually, a foresty mountain-scape is revealed to be Swift as a prone, green giantess, while Ice Spice is both sides now of a heavenly cloud formation.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 27 May 2023
Salerno plays 30 characters from inside a small box, ranging from a drunken couple in Las Vegas to a lonely giantess, a lost pope and the entire Greek army.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2022
Back in the woods and trying to find a way to stop a vengeful giantess, the Baker’s Wife ends up running into Cinderella’s Prince.
—Vulture, 16 Aug. 2022
Leppaluoi, their dad, is lazy and stays in the cave, and their mom, Gryla, is a giantess who seeks out naughty children to add to her stew.
—Jennifer Borresen, USA Today, 20 Dec. 2022
In Vidura’s telling, the elephant has six heads and the traveler has been chased into the forest by a giantess, but the rest was familiar: a monster in a pit, rats and bees, the man desperately slurping honey.
—Hari Kunzru, Harper’s Magazine , 4 Jan. 2022
And despite being married to the Aesir Sigyn, Loki had three children with the giantess Angrboda.
—Tribune News Service, cleveland, 19 June 2021
Lauren Groff, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2024
The work has drawn protests as well as a lawsuit from leaders in the local art and design community, who see the giantess with her white dress blowing up above her waist as cheesy, sexist, or both.
—The Editors Of Artnews, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2019
Eventually, a foresty mountain-scape is revealed to be Swift as a prone, green giantess, while Ice Spice is both sides now of a heavenly cloud formation.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 27 May 2023
Salerno plays 30 characters from inside a small box, ranging from a drunken couple in Las Vegas to a lonely giantess, a lost pope and the entire Greek army.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2022
Back in the woods and trying to find a way to stop a vengeful giantess, the Baker’s Wife ends up running into Cinderella’s Prince.
—Vulture, 16 Aug. 2022
Leppaluoi, their dad, is lazy and stays in the cave, and their mom, Gryla, is a giantess who seeks out naughty children to add to her stew.
—Jennifer Borresen, USA Today, 20 Dec. 2022
In Vidura’s telling, the elephant has six heads and the traveler has been chased into the forest by a giantess, but the rest was familiar: a monster in a pit, rats and bees, the man desperately slurping honey.
—Hari Kunzru, Harper’s Magazine , 4 Jan. 2022
And despite being married to the Aesir Sigyn, Loki had three children with the giantess Angrboda.
—Tribune News Service, cleveland, 19 June 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for giantess
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President Xi Jinping met some of China’s most prominent tycoons, sending what analysts say is the strongest signal of support in years to companies like web giants Alibaba and Tencent.—
Yue Wang,
Forbes,
17 Feb. 2025
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That fits observations, where low-mass stars have few to no giants.—
Nola Taylor Tillman,
Space.com,
17 Feb. 2025
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The Swiss colossus crafted a sophisticated campaign to justify more than double that amount, enlisting a team of respected academics, data-modelers and pricing strategists to help make its case.—
Robin Fields,
CNN,
17 Feb. 2025
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Dunk is not the colossus of old Is age and fitness finally catching up to Lewis Dunk?—
Andy Naylor,
The Athletic,
16 Dec. 2024
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Like penguins, dolphins, and whales, people feel a strong connection to them.—
Leanne Potts,
Better Homes & Gardens,
8 Feb. 2025
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The duo has ventured into a kelp forest, an underwater area dense with brown algae that supports vast swaths of marine life like sea otters and whales.—
Curtis Bunn,
NBC News,
1 Feb. 2025
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This lineage once ruled the food chain in the time after dinosaurs went extinct, preying on primates, early hippos, early elephants and hyraxes, but were later wiped out themselves.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA TODAY,
19 Feb. 2025
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In that incident, an elephant charged a truck, flipped it over, killed the tourist, and injured five others.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
13 Feb. 2025
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Rather than a distant gas giant like Jupiter, 51 Pegasi b was a behemoth half the mass of Jupiter but orbiting astonishingly close to its star, whipping around it once every 4.2 days.—
Dakotah Tyler,
Scientific American,
18 Feb. 2025
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Sign In Runway February 11, 2025 Photo: Courtesy of Calvin Klein Collection New York Fashion Week wraps up today, and this season was host to Veronica Leoni’s debut at Calvin Klein, the American behemoth label that had been dormant, at least on the runway, since the 2018 departure of Raf Simons.—
Vogue,
Vogue,
11 Feb. 2025
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Previous excavations have found evidence that a mammoth was killed or scavenged at the site, according to a statement from the University of Wyoming.—
Julia Binswanger,
Smithsonian Magazine,
11 Dec. 2024
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Woolly mammoths were larger than modern-day African elephants, according to Czech Radio, but lived during the Ice Ages so were covered in thick fur.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
5 Feb. 2025
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Alec Merlino White's original Goliath tribemate Alec Merlino was unanimously sent to the jury after losing an impressive endurance challenge that lasted five hours.—
Sydney Bucksbaum,
EW.com,
17 Feb. 2025
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Take a cave tour to see giant stalactites and stalagmites, including Goliath, a 45-foot-tall stalagmite that’s 243 feet around and is one of the largest in the world.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
15 Feb. 2025
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Angry leviathans, seeking to annihilate with a god-like vengeance.—
Todd Heyman,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 Sep. 2019
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Thanks in a large part to the high tax rates needed to fund the healthcare leviathan, the median income in every Canadian province is lower than the median income in every U.S. state.—
Sally Pipes,
Forbes,
21 Jan. 2025
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“Giantess.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/giantess. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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