as in whales
something that is unusually large and powerful
even as sport-utility vehicles go, that one is a mammoth
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Noun
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Think of chickens as tiny T-Rex dinosaurs with feathers.—
Sal Gilbertie,
Forbes,
24 Mar. 2025 -
Chickens are like miniature dinosaurs Some theorize that chickens are related to dinosaurs, which would not be surprising.—
Sal Gilbertie,
Forbes,
24 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Three-time league MVP Jokić no doubt heard those chants and cut a frustrated figure in the fourth quarter, often not able to assert his will on the game when faced by the Thunder’s two giants, Chet Holmgren and Isaiah Hartenstein.—
Matias Grez,
CNN,
10 Mar. 2025
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Standing on the shoulders of early AI giants The story of AI did not begin with the deep neural networks of the 2010s.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Feb. 2025
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In some scenes of the film, the relationship remains much closer as in Myanmar, where loggers use elephants to move giant trees felled for timber.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
23 Mar. 2025
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The elephant is, quite appropriately, according to Jonathan Haidt’s beloved analogy for Daniel Kahneman’s System 1 / System 2 duo, the emotion itself.—
Tim Maurer,
Forbes,
23 Mar. 2025
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Its approach mirrors that used for the dire wolf: comparing ancient mammoth DNA with that of its closest living relative, the Asian elephant, and introducing mammoth genes associated with cold tolerance.—
Nia Bowers,
USA Today,
24 May 2025
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At the Tulsa Zoo, Billy and Tina will be joined in a 17-acre enclosure by five other Asian elephants.—
Hailey Branson-Potts,
Los Angeles Times,
23 May 2025
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“Mammoths.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mammoths. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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