as in giant
something that is unusually large and powerful
Leonardo da Vinci remains a colossus in the history of art
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Recent Examples of colossus
Now, PayPal faces a slew of competitors, from the payments colossus Stripe to Big Tech giants like Apple.
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Ben Weiss, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2025
Altman completed his transformation of OpenAI, shedding profit caps for investors and paving the way for future investment in the $500 billion colossus.
—Charlie Campbell, Time, 11 Dec. 2025
Alabama has been the colossus to the north, especially under Nick Saban, but still doing well in Year 2 of Kalen DeBoer.
—Seth Emerson, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2025
If at any point María Luisa hesitated, doubtful about the tastefulness of this colossus, those doubts vanished the moment a representative of the city council delivered a witty and audacious explanation of the arch.
—Literary Hub, 4 Nov. 2025
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Ben Weiss, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2025
Altman completed his transformation of OpenAI, shedding profit caps for investors and paving the way for future investment in the $500 billion colossus.
—Charlie Campbell, Time, 11 Dec. 2025
Alabama has been the colossus to the north, especially under Nick Saban, but still doing well in Year 2 of Kalen DeBoer.
—Seth Emerson, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2025
If at any point María Luisa hesitated, doubtful about the tastefulness of this colossus, those doubts vanished the moment a representative of the city council delivered a witty and audacious explanation of the arch.
—Literary Hub, 4 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for colossus
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DeepSeek, Alibaba, and other Chinese tech giants ByteDance and Tencent have been granted conditional approvals by Beijing to purchase a certain amount of H200s, Reuters reported last month, citing anonymous sources.—
John Liu,
CNN Money,
11 Feb. 2026
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Tech giants have repeatedly relied on Section 230, a federal law that shields them from liability over content that their users post, as a defense against safety claims.—
CNN.com Wire Service,
Mercury News,
11 Feb. 2026
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But that is where a team with arguably the most forward-facing executive in the NBA, if not in all of sports, had to be forward facing, with a media session with the same type of clarity as all those times after landing, for lack of better phrasing, a whale.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
7 Feb. 2026
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The whales are selling up, according to Jefferies analyst Andrew Moss.—
Jim Edwards,
Fortune,
6 Feb. 2026
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The couple has clearly created a monster.—
Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
14 Feb. 2026
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Or a family battling an evil monster.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA Today,
13 Feb. 2026
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The data can’t foresee recessions or pandemics—or the arrival of a technology that might do to the workforce what an asteroid did to the dinosaurs.—
Josh Tyrangiel,
The Atlantic,
10 Feb. 2026
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People from around the world visit to see dinosaur tracks from 113 million years ago in the bed of the Paluxy River or to enjoy other recreational activities, such as fishing, biking and swimming.—
Lana Ferguson,
Dallas Morning News,
10 Feb. 2026
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Unlike many slow-moving urban mammoths, this could be a model for how to integrate local desires with capitalist imperatives to deliver your friendly neighborhood megaproject.—
Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
10 Feb. 2026
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Savvy ancestors As mammoths and elephants were rare in prehistoric England, the discovery highlights the advanced cognitive skills of early humans.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
21 Jan. 2026
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Two titans of reggaeton, pitted against each other by fans and the industry, got together and made a song that to this day is still considered a classic of the genre.—
Juan J. Arroyo,
Rolling Stone,
3 Feb. 2026
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That’s why famous scientists like Neil deGrasse Tyson and tech titans like Elon Musk have been convinced of it, though Tyson now puts the odds at 50-50.—
Zeb Rocklin,
The Conversation,
2 Feb. 2026
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“Colossus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/colossus. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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