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
As per Phys, Joshua Samuels described a vivid picture of these giant squirrels having once glided over rhinos and mastodons that lived in these forests even five million years ago.
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Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 25 Feb. 2025
All sorts of giant mammals existed across North America, like mastodons, sabre-toothed cats, giant sloths and more.
—Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 17 Feb. 2025
Analyzed with modern techniques, these cores have painted a picture of a once lush Greenland, teeming with mastodons, dense forests, and diverse wildlife.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 16 Jan. 2025
Experts have already confirmed the jaw, along with toe and rib fragments, belonged to an adult mastodon, one of the many that thrived across portions of North America.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 20 Dec. 2024
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Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 25 Feb. 2025
All sorts of giant mammals existed across North America, like mastodons, sabre-toothed cats, giant sloths and more.
—Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 17 Feb. 2025
Analyzed with modern techniques, these cores have painted a picture of a once lush Greenland, teeming with mastodons, dense forests, and diverse wildlife.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 16 Jan. 2025
Experts have already confirmed the jaw, along with toe and rib fragments, belonged to an adult mastodon, one of the many that thrived across portions of North America.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 20 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mastodon
Noun
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Two years ago after a request from Congressional opponents of wind energy, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) began investigating whether the offshore wind industry kills whales.—
Jeongyoon Han,
NPR,
17 Apr. 2025
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Five whales were spotted traveling with Check, making the rescue mission unsafe, officials said.—
Paloma Chavez,
Sacbee.com,
15 Apr. 2025
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Among them are the woolly mammoth, that Colossal has already announced plans to revive, and even dinosaurs, which the startup has not yet commented on, despite speculation.—
Gordon G. Chang,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Apr. 2025
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In addition to dragons, Universal is bringing dinosaurs to the format.—
Carolyn Giardina,
Variety,
3 Apr. 2025
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Banco Santander is the fifth-largest auto lender in the country and is expanding through a recent partnership with telecom giant Verizon.—
Ruxandra Iordache,
CNBC,
17 Apr. 2025
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Google abused its dominance to suppress competition in some digital advertising markets, a court has found in a ruling that could lead to the tech giant being forced to sell off parts of its business.—
Winston Cho,
HollywoodReporter,
17 Apr. 2025
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The Switch was a monster, so the assumption is that sure, players will pay a full 50% more for a new one, if not more.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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The trailer depicts sequences involving multiple predators fighting or threatening one another, Elle Fanning looking very strange and cool as an android, and glimpses of new monsters and the alien world the movie focuses on.—
John Timmer,
ArsTechnica,
23 Apr. 2025
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Researchers studied mammoth mitochondrial DNA from as far back as 1.3 million years, with the most recent based on genetic material from a relatively recent mammoth from about 125,000 years ago.—
Paul Smaglik,
Discover Magazine,
9 Apr. 2025
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The baby mammoth had been preserved in permafrost until she was dug up in the cold Russian province of Yakutia last year.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
8 Apr. 2025
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Then the older elephants — Ndlula, Umngani and Khosi — scramble to encircle and shield the two 7-year-old calves, Zuli and Mkhaya.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
15 Apr. 2025
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Five African elephants reside at the park, two of them 7-year-old calves.—
Theresa Braine,
New York Daily News,
15 Apr. 2025
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“Mastodon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mastodon. Accessed 28 Apr. 2025.
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