as in whale
something or someone that is unusually large and powerful
mom-and-pop stores just can't compete with these mastodons of retailing
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Recent Examples of mastodon
Like mammoths, mastodons disappeared toward the end of the last ice age, when a series of factors, including climate change and human hunting, drove many large animals to extinction, as Jess Thomson reports for Newsweek.
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Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Dec. 2024
Mammoths were more closely related to modern elephants, whereas mastodons were part of a separate family.
—Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
New York State Museum Remnants of mastodons have been discovered in New York before.
—Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 18 Dec. 2024
The short-faced bear went extinct around 11,000 years, at the end of the Pleistocene, along with most of the large mammals that lived alongside it, including all the large carnivores listed above, as well as giant ground sloths, mammoths, mastodons, giant beavers, camels, and giant armadillos.
—Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
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Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Dec. 2024
Mammoths were more closely related to modern elephants, whereas mastodons were part of a separate family.
—Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
New York State Museum Remnants of mastodons have been discovered in New York before.
—Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 18 Dec. 2024
The short-faced bear went extinct around 11,000 years, at the end of the Pleistocene, along with most of the large mammals that lived alongside it, including all the large carnivores listed above, as well as giant ground sloths, mammoths, mastodons, giant beavers, camels, and giant armadillos.
—Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mastodon
Noun
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When krill numbers fell again, so did the whales’ songs.—
Bloomberg,
The Mercury News,
18 Mar. 2025
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After dealing with whales and black swans and two of every creature on Noah’s Ark, Darren Aronofsky is going back to the animal kingdom for his next film.—
Brian Welk,
IndieWire,
18 Mar. 2025
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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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Travelers can get their hands dirty and track down ancient dinosaur fossils, jewels and more treasures through excursions across the country.—
Perri Ormont Blumberg Fox News,
Fox News,
17 Mar. 2025
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Participants include most of the major U.S. power suppliers and tech giants such as Microsoft, Oracle and NVIDIA.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
21 Mar. 2025
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And O’Neill, a two-time Oscar nominee, dismissed any talk about Silicon Valley giants needing fewer guardrails, and not more, to protect U.S. dominance in digital technologies against global competitors like China.—
Etan Vlessing,
The Hollywood Reporter,
21 Mar. 2025
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The first major update, aptly titled Title Update 1, is set to be released later this week, and brings new monsters, new activities, and more for players of the game.—
Ron Estes,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Mar. 2025
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White Painted Woman was a model of heroism and honorable womanhood: When evil monsters were hunting the Apache people, the White Painted Woman gave birth to a son who would destroy the creatures to help make Earth inhabitable for humanity.—
Alejandra Rubio,
NPR,
29 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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The brightly colored animal creations depict everything from sloths and raccoons to birds, elephants and giraffes.—
Julie Gallant,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Mar. 2025
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Big cats, giraffes, elephants and zebras made cameos in the photos.—
Angel Saunders,
People.com,
25 Mar. 2025
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“Mastodon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mastodon. Accessed 6 Apr. 2025.
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