as in giants
something or someone that is unusually large and powerful
the family-owned company lost the contract to a multibillion-dollar Goliath
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The fine is one of three antitrust penalties totaling more than $8 billion that the European Commission slapped on Google between 2017 and 2019, putting the 27-nation bloc at the forefront of the global push to rein in tech giants.
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There are also pieces by Rufino Tamayo, Diego Rivera, and other giants of Mexican modernism.
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The same week of sky that delivers the aurora is also delivering polar bears on the tundra and beluga whales in the estuary.
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This year, the company began offering sailboat trips for between five and 10 people to observe the whales.
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When the monsters reveal an evil agenda that goes beyond becoming movie stars, the Minions are forced to battle them to save the world.
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In this end-of-the-world scenario, Jack thrives on junk food and video games while gathering a squad of classmates to fight of zombies and monsters.
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Experts are invited to experience an amusement park built around cloned dinosaurs.
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This image provided by the Natural History Museum shows a fossil found in Antarctica that belongs to a group of dinosaurs called titanosaurs.
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This clash of could-be titans proved to be too evenly matched for much action.
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Prior to joining Nutanix, Sam held senior leadership roles at several industry titans, including Broadcom, VMware, Cisco Systems, Palo Alto Networks, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, and Illumio.
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According to this theory, those now-extinct megafauna—the giant ground sloths and the giant beavers, the mastodons and mammoths, and even the lions and dire wolves—were relatively quickly hunted to extinction.
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The artificial egg tech is the latest addition to Colossal's list of de-extinction projects, which now span dodo birds, dire wolves, and mammoths.
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“Goliaths.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Goliaths. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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