as in giants
something that is unusually large and powerful
the newest SUV is a gas-guzzling behemoth that doesn't even fit in a standard parking space
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Recent Examples of behemoths
Any kid who stars at smaller schools transfers before the program can become a threat to the behemoths.
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Troy Renck, Denver Post, 27 Mar. 2026
The Silicon Valley drama Cupertino from The Good Wife creators Robert and Michelle King will see a lawyer (Mike Colter) take on Silicon Valley behemoths.
—Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 27 Mar. 2026
The logic appeared to be that, if AI behemoths are going to train their models on Disney IP without permission, the company might as well start profiting and learning from it.
—Jake Kanter, Deadline, 25 Mar. 2026
Of course, in Louisiana, with its cheap, abundant, and locally refined gasoline, many civilians drive these behemoths, too, so at school pickups, organizers asked parents to roll their windows down and blast music, something that joyless agents would never do.
—Daniel Brook, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
YouTube would happily add those company’s games to its service, but the other behemoths are currently more interested in becoming hubs themselves.
—Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 13 Mar. 2026
After the recent downturn, many of those tech behemoths are now trading at valuations rarely seen.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 6 Mar. 2026
That figure marks 20 quarters of growth for the brand overall, as other luxury behemoths such as LVMH and Gucci owner Kering have seen setbacks amid an ongoing luxury slump.
—Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 5 Mar. 2026
Other soccer behemoths that don’t have basketball teams could follow suit, such as Paris Saint-Germain.
—Alex Sherman, CNBC, 26 Feb. 2026
Troy Renck, Denver Post, 27 Mar. 2026
The Silicon Valley drama Cupertino from The Good Wife creators Robert and Michelle King will see a lawyer (Mike Colter) take on Silicon Valley behemoths.
—Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 27 Mar. 2026
The logic appeared to be that, if AI behemoths are going to train their models on Disney IP without permission, the company might as well start profiting and learning from it.
—Jake Kanter, Deadline, 25 Mar. 2026
Of course, in Louisiana, with its cheap, abundant, and locally refined gasoline, many civilians drive these behemoths, too, so at school pickups, organizers asked parents to roll their windows down and blast music, something that joyless agents would never do.
—Daniel Brook, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
YouTube would happily add those company’s games to its service, but the other behemoths are currently more interested in becoming hubs themselves.
—Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 13 Mar. 2026
After the recent downturn, many of those tech behemoths are now trading at valuations rarely seen.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 6 Mar. 2026
That figure marks 20 quarters of growth for the brand overall, as other luxury behemoths such as LVMH and Gucci owner Kering have seen setbacks amid an ongoing luxury slump.
—Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 5 Mar. 2026
Other soccer behemoths that don’t have basketball teams could follow suit, such as Paris Saint-Germain.
—Alex Sherman, CNBC, 26 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for behemoths
Noun
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And American tech giants like Amazon, OpenAI and Microsoft see the Gulf states’ abundant and cheap energy and vast land as key to their AI infrastructure buildouts.—
John Liu,
CNN Money,
31 Mar. 2026
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Rioux is two inches taller than former NBA giants Gheorghe Muresan and Manute Bol, and three inches taller than popular big men Yao Ming, Tacko Fall and Shawn Bradley.—
Ryan Morik,
FOXNews.com,
31 Mar. 2026
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The Center for Biological Diversity estimated that the Deepwater Horizon disaster harmed or killed more than eighty thousand birds, six thousand sea turtles, and twenty-five thousand dolphins and whales.—
Jeffrey Marlow,
New Yorker,
5 Apr. 2026
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Juvenile whales gently nudged the calf and kept it close to the mother.—
Samantha Agate,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
4 Apr. 2026
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If the dinosaurs and woolly mammoths that once roamed the Earth had since crumbled into dust, then what hope was there for humanity?—
Kathryn Hughes,
The New York Review of Books,
4 Apr. 2026
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Birds are thought to have descended from carnivorous dinosaurs that began growing feathers by the Late Jurassic Period; thus, birds are technically one lineage of reptiles.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
2 Apr. 2026
Noun
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There's also aliens or monsters or some other supernatural entity out to get them.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
30 Mar. 2026
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Sometimes darkly humorous, sometimes strangely heartbreaking, this immersive storytelling experience is Edgar Allan Poe for the modern age; a heart-to-bleeding-heart with madmen, murderers and monsters all dying to tell their story.—
William Earl,
Variety,
25 Mar. 2026
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Stripped back to just Stephen O’Malley and Greg Anderson, the drone-metal titans explore the minutiae of microtonal vibrations on an album that sprawls like land art.—
Daniel Bromfield,
Pitchfork,
4 Apr. 2026
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The tech titans and Schultz join Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, PayPal and Palantir cofounder Peter Thiel, Citadel founder Ken Griffin, and Oracle cofounder Larry Ellison, who have all bought property or moved their companies’ operations to Florida in the past couple of years.—
Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez,
Fortune,
2 Apr. 2026
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Fossils have also been found that indicate the islands were also once home to pygmy mammoths, which only reached 4 to 6 feet tall.—
Kate Bradshaw,
Mercury News,
23 Mar. 2026
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Surviving Earth explores the world 450M years ago featuring giant sea scorpions, mammoths and sabertooths.—
Peter White,
Deadline,
12 Mar. 2026
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“Behemoths.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/behemoths. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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