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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
Experts are invited to experience an amusement park built around cloned dinosaurs.
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Grace Dean,
Space.com,
1 July 2026
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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CBS News,
30 June 2026
The research also advances our understanding of how dinosaurs moved around the southern continents, according to study coauthor Samantha Beeston, a palaeontology doctoral student at University College London.
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Jack Guy,
CNN Money,
30 June 2026
As reported by the New York Times, the statue by artist Aldo Beroisa follows from other creations of his including statues of dinosaurs and Jesus, and has been in the works for more than a year.
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Andy Battaglia,
ARTnews.com,
29 June 2026
Children still play with toy cars, trains, dinosaurs or dolls.
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Mark Thirlwell,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2026
Whereas Spielberg’s other blockbusters involving impressive creatures—the dinosaurs of Jurassic Park, the great white of Jaws—contend with the question of how to control them, his alien stories consider what humanity can learn from them.
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Emma Sarappo,
The Atlantic,
26 June 2026
If your kid loves dinosaurs, this toy is a must-have.
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Anja Webb,
Parents,
24 June 2026
The space rock that led to the dinosaurs’ extinction slammed into the present-day Gulf of Mexico about 66 million years ago, while the last major example known as the Tunguska Event occurred in 1908.
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Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
24 June 2026
Grace Dean,
Space.com,
1 July 2026
This image provided by the Natural History Museum shows a fossil found in Antarctica that belongs to a group of dinosaurs called titanosaurs.
—
CBS News,
30 June 2026
The research also advances our understanding of how dinosaurs moved around the southern continents, according to study coauthor Samantha Beeston, a palaeontology doctoral student at University College London.
—
Jack Guy,
CNN Money,
30 June 2026
As reported by the New York Times, the statue by artist Aldo Beroisa follows from other creations of his including statues of dinosaurs and Jesus, and has been in the works for more than a year.
—
Andy Battaglia,
ARTnews.com,
29 June 2026
Children still play with toy cars, trains, dinosaurs or dolls.
—
Mark Thirlwell,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2026
Whereas Spielberg’s other blockbusters involving impressive creatures—the dinosaurs of Jurassic Park, the great white of Jaws—contend with the question of how to control them, his alien stories consider what humanity can learn from them.
—
Emma Sarappo,
The Atlantic,
26 June 2026
If your kid loves dinosaurs, this toy is a must-have.
—
Anja Webb,
Parents,
24 June 2026
The space rock that led to the dinosaurs’ extinction slammed into the present-day Gulf of Mexico about 66 million years ago, while the last major example known as the Tunguska Event occurred in 1908.
—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
24 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dinosaurs
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There are also permanent upgrades to health and attack power, as well as rare relics that enable unique skills, like multiple jumps.
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Museum of Miami The Museum of Miami, formerly HistoryMiami, holds the relics and artifacts that were excavated at the Miami Circle.
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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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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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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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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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For a species like the African elephant, with a generation time of roughly 25 years, a thousand years of evolution covers only about 40 generations.
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In other words, of the approximately 415,000 wild elephants in Africa, about 45,000 roam within the park’s boundaries.
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“Dinosaurs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dinosaurs. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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