as in whale
something or someone that is unusually large and powerful
poor gas mileage did little to stem the popularity of that dreadnought of the roadways: the SUV
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Recent Examples of dreadnought
Before the dominance of aircraft carriers, dreadnoughts (later battleships) were the centerpiece of any serious navy.
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Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
7 May 2026
Yamaha The guitar rocks a dreadnought shape with a lower cut for higher fret access, and features a Sitka spruce top with mahogany back and sides.
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Paul Ridden,
New Atlas,
11 Oct. 2024
So the potential third installment will involve Kora and company tracking her down, while also seeking allies from surrounding planets now that there’s a blueprint for taking down Imperium dreadnoughts.
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Brian Davids,
The Hollywood Reporter,
19 Apr. 2024
But the Pac-12’s once-mighty dreadnought, horribly captained, the geniuses who denied access to Texas and Oklahoma, went down in its own sea of incompetence and arrogance.
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San Diego Union-Tribune,
12 Aug. 2023
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
7 May 2026
Yamaha The guitar rocks a dreadnought shape with a lower cut for higher fret access, and features a Sitka spruce top with mahogany back and sides.
—
Paul Ridden,
New Atlas,
11 Oct. 2024
So the potential third installment will involve Kora and company tracking her down, while also seeking allies from surrounding planets now that there’s a blueprint for taking down Imperium dreadnoughts.
—
Brian Davids,
The Hollywood Reporter,
19 Apr. 2024
But the Pac-12’s once-mighty dreadnought, horribly captained, the geniuses who denied access to Texas and Oklahoma, went down in its own sea of incompetence and arrogance.
—
San Diego Union-Tribune,
12 Aug. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dreadnought
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Those include swimming dolphins, traveling in space, and taking a bath with a whale.
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Along with a full roster of shows and entertainment, the ship will sail with a whale specialist during summer months.
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Go on, put the 131-cube (2,147 cc) monster engine into that one.
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There’s no way the doll monsters at the pond were the whole point of the Lake of Tears, right?
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Since then, the commission has widened its crackdown on digital giants with more antitrust investigations targeting Amazon, Apple and Facebook and sweeping new rules aimed at clamping down on the biggest digital companies.
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In the years since, Monsanto, now owned by German chemical giant Bayer, has paid out over $10 billion to settle about 100,000 claims from people who said their health was harmed after they were exposed to Roundup.
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Technology has come a long way since the dinosaur tail bone was first found, allowing researchers to peer inside bones and gain even more detailed information about ancient creatures.
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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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The billionaire pop titan and the NFL star, both 36, kicked off their wedding festivities Thursday afternoon with a rehearsal dinner at the famed sports arena.
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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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For the next 49,000 years, the sticky pits captured virtually everything that fell or walked onto them, from grains of pollen borne by the wind to hapless ancient camels and Columbian mammoths.
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“Dreadnought.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dreadnought. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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