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as in relics
one that has passed the peak of effectiveness or popularity
as an old-time big-city boss, he's become something of a dinosaur in today's political world
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as in whales
something or someone that is unusually large and powerful
not that his small lawn needed such a dinosaur, but he bought a riding mower anyway
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Recent Examples of dinosaurs
Overall, the collected plant evidence shows that the area was humid and forested when the dinosaurs roamed.
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Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 19 Sep. 2025
Researchers have debated for decades how these dinosaurs used their signature dome.
—Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2025
Our Mammalian Age The climatic impact of the asteroid strike that doomed the dinosaurs, while global and catastrophic, was relatively short-lived.
—Peter Brannen, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
And the magic of watching leatherback sea turtles, as old as the dinosaurs, swimming across vast oceans to nest their hatchlings on Galathea Bay’s pristine shore might soon fade into memory.
—M. Rajshekhar, Time, 11 Sep. 2025
The clash between the mundane real world and the myth of dinosaurs is one of the reasons people keep coming back to these movies.
—Rob Wieland, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Fifth graders learned about genetics by building dinosaurs and their offspring with Lego blocks, identifying shared traits.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2025
Unlike the dinosaurs, however, researchers and wildlife officials are working to slow down or even stop these extinctions — and sometimes bring animals back from the brink.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 4 Sep. 2025
Like wings—in dinosaurs, and in bats, but are very different from the wings in birds and are still very different from wings in insects.
—Maria Reva
september 3, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 19 Sep. 2025
Researchers have debated for decades how these dinosaurs used their signature dome.
—Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2025
Our Mammalian Age The climatic impact of the asteroid strike that doomed the dinosaurs, while global and catastrophic, was relatively short-lived.
—Peter Brannen, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
And the magic of watching leatherback sea turtles, as old as the dinosaurs, swimming across vast oceans to nest their hatchlings on Galathea Bay’s pristine shore might soon fade into memory.
—M. Rajshekhar, Time, 11 Sep. 2025
The clash between the mundane real world and the myth of dinosaurs is one of the reasons people keep coming back to these movies.
—Rob Wieland, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Fifth graders learned about genetics by building dinosaurs and their offspring with Lego blocks, identifying shared traits.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2025
Unlike the dinosaurs, however, researchers and wildlife officials are working to slow down or even stop these extinctions — and sometimes bring animals back from the brink.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 4 Sep. 2025
Like wings—in dinosaurs, and in bats, but are very different from the wings in birds and are still very different from wings in insects.
—Maria Reva
september 3, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dinosaurs
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Comets are among the most captivating wanderers of the solar system — icy relics from its earliest days that blaze across the sky with glowing tails and mysterious origins.—
Kenna Hughes-Castleberry,
Space.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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Not a house of relics, not a memorial.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
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While critics have voiced concern about the ability of whales to skew markets, prediction markets are built in such a way that, when prices give a distorted view of reality, betting the other way proves profitable.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
17 Sep. 2025
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Essentially, the whales started a fad of playing with boat rudders.—
Ramon Padilla,
USA Today,
17 Sep. 2025
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Its shares fell more than 2% Wednesday after the Financial Times, citing sources, said China has ordered local tech giants to stop tests and orders of the Nvidia RTX Pro 6000D chip.—
Evelyn Cheng,
CNBC,
18 Sep. 2025
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Pharmaceutical giants Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk were among those targeted, along with telehealth company Hims & Hers, whose stock fell nearly 6% Tuesday.—
Danielle Chemtob,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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This quiz invites you to explore the darker corners of sci-fi literature, where monsters lurk not just in shadows, but in laboratories, alien worlds and post-apocalyptic wastelands.—
Kenna Hughes-Castleberry,
Space.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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Watch out for monsters under the bed.—
Brady MacDonald,
Oc Register,
16 Sep. 2025
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These were places rich with prey like bison, camels, horses and even young mammoths.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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This finding raises the possibility that mammoths, as close relatives of modern elephants, might have been susceptible to similar infections.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
2 Sep. 2025
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Each drive offered us the choice to head down into the valley—in search of the elusive black leopard or to visit the hippos dotting the riverbank—or up onto the plateau where the chance to see lions, cheetahs, zebras, and elephants awaited.—
Rebekah Peppler,
Travel + Leisure,
19 Sep. 2025
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The biggest pieces in the parade, the circus elephants of the menagerie, were Abrams tanks.—
Seth Harp,
Harpers Magazine,
19 Sep. 2025
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“Dinosaurs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dinosaurs. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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