as in giant
unusually large
the Titanic was a leviathan ship by the standards of the time
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as in whale
something that is unusually large and powerful
a leviathan of the seas, that cruise ship is said to be the largest passenger vessel afloat
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Recent Examples of leviathan
Sally Pipes, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
The e-tail leviathan holds a 50 percent market share of fast fashion sales in the United States, per Statista’s calculations, with that market share doubling since March 2022 (which doubled against 2020).
—Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019
In the decades since the 1982 international moratorium on whaling, leviathans have returned in numbers to the Southern Ocean.
—Kevin West, Travel + Leisure, 24 Nov. 2024
If the incoming administration is serious about delivering to the American people results based on common sense, biological reality, and cultural sanity, there is plenty of work to be done across multiple departments and agencies of the leviathan federal ...
—Lathan Watts, National Review, 5 Dec. 2024
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Noun
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
The e-tail leviathan holds a 50 percent market share of fast fashion sales in the United States, per Statista’s calculations, with that market share doubling since March 2022 (which doubled against 2020).
—Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019
In the decades since the 1982 international moratorium on whaling, leviathans have returned in numbers to the Southern Ocean.
—Kevin West, Travel + Leisure, 24 Nov. 2024
If the incoming administration is serious about delivering to the American people results based on common sense, biological reality, and cultural sanity, there is plenty of work to be done across multiple departments and agencies of the leviathan federal ...
—Lathan Watts, National Review, 5 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for leviathan
Adjective
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She’s accompanied by Cosmo, a robot with a giant cartoon head and the soulful eyes of someone—or something—that might be more than just a machine.—
Tony Bradley,
Forbes,
14 Mar. 2025
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The surviving robots, meanwhile, got sent to a giant prison colony somewhere in the deserts of the American Southwest.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
14 Mar. 2025
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Environmentalists said that oil and chemicals posed a risk to sea life, including whales and dolphins and to birds, including puffins, gannets and guillemots that live on coastal cliffs.—
Faisal Kutty,
Newsweek,
12 Mar. 2025
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The researchers also looked at how other large sharks and whales move through water to deduce the megalodon’s shape.—
Sara Hashemi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
11 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Then try Wilmot’s Warehouse, a strangely cheerful take on working in a gigantic storage warehouse.—
Lewis Gordon,
Vulture,
19 Mar. 2025
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Explaining this, the paper proposes that the gigantic impact which formed the roughly 1,600 mile (2,500 kilometers) wide SPA basin around 4.2 billion years ago modified the chemical and physical properties of the moon's mantle in this region.—
Andrew Jones,
Space.com,
18 Mar. 2025
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Fing turns out to be as much as a destructive monster as Myrtle, who in turn, must battle it out with the evil animal park owner, The Viscount (Waititi), determined to own this rarest of creatures.—
Lily Ford,
The Hollywood Reporter,
19 Mar. 2025
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Fing turns out to be as much as a destructive monster as Myrtle, who in turn, must battle it out with the evil animal park owner, The Viscount (Waititi), who is determined to own this rarest of creatures.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The vast majority of cases are in people who are not vaccinated.—
Daniel Pastula,
The Conversation,
19 Mar. 2025
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Gabb Music offers a vast catalog of songs, all of which are selected by the Gabb team to include only kid- and teen-appropriate content.—
Kevin Rutherford,
Billboard,
19 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Smaller dinosaurs and other creatures were caught in the mud, unable to escape.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes,
21 Mar. 2025
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For this study, the team used a similar technique to the one used to reconstruct dinosaur coloration.—
Stephanie Edwards,
Discover Magazine,
17 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The colossal storm will put over 100 million people at risk of severe weather, from blizzard conditions in the northern Plains to tornadoes and wildfires in the South.—
Christopher Cann,
USA TODAY,
12 Mar. 2025
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Lunar Client debuted in April 2019 and struggled financially in its early days, but the company remained self-funded, with founders often going unpaid, before the platform’s popularity gained colossal momentum during the COVID-19 pandemic.—
Matt Gardner,
Forbes,
12 Mar. 2025
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Engineering The Woolly Mouse—A Mammoth Gene Experiment Bringing back the mammoth is no simple task.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes,
15 Mar. 2025
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Shapiro and her colleagues started by trying to identify the genes responsible for making mammoths distinctive.—
Rob Stein,
NPR,
4 Mar. 2025
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“Leviathan.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leviathan. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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