as in whale
something or someone that is unusually large and powerful
by any standard, the new shopping mall will be an elephant and one that is certain to alter the retail landscape
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Recent Examples of elephant
To contain and observe those elephants, the villagers use firecrackers, electric fences, and – in one image Shah finds particularly resonant – eyes painted onto tree trunks, a human appeal to the forest to look back and see them.
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Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 18 May 2026
The company still sells its classic animal crackers today, featuring shapes such as elephants, lions, camels, bears and tigers.
—Kelly McGreal, FOXNews.com, 17 May 2026
But elephants learn pretty quickly which parts of a fence won't shock them — like the wooden posts that keep the fence wires up.
—Diaa Hadid, NPR, 16 May 2026
The circus promoter who gave us bearded infants, giantesses from Maine, and Jumbo the elephant had earlier established the American Museum, in lower Manhattan.
—Sebastian Smee, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
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Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 18 May 2026
The company still sells its classic animal crackers today, featuring shapes such as elephants, lions, camels, bears and tigers.
—Kelly McGreal, FOXNews.com, 17 May 2026
But elephants learn pretty quickly which parts of a fence won't shock them — like the wooden posts that keep the fence wires up.
—Diaa Hadid, NPR, 16 May 2026
The circus promoter who gave us bearded infants, giantesses from Maine, and Jumbo the elephant had earlier established the American Museum, in lower Manhattan.
—Sebastian Smee, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for elephant
Noun
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But the whale stranded repeatedly.—
Veronika Meduna,
Forbes.com,
17 May 2026
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For a closer look, ask the concierge to arrange a whale-watching boat ride.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
16 May 2026
Noun
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Adani Green Energy withdrew its wind energy projects from Sri Lanka after the country sought to renegotiate prices, while a French oil giant also paused new investments.—
Michael R. Sisak,
Los Angeles Times,
19 May 2026
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This compact began to fray in the 2010s as the scrappy upstarts of the early days grew into globe-spanning giants with untold power and influence.—
Jonathan Weber,
Fortune,
19 May 2026
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Or, perhaps most dramatically, one such clustering happened some 66 million years ago when an asteroid collided with Earth, darkening the skies and likely wiping out the dinosaurs - and over half of all plant species.—
Ari Daniel,
NPR,
19 May 2026
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Rafa smiles and picks up another dinosaur by its tail.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 May 2026
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The minotaur was a monster, half man and half bull, that was imprisoned in a dark underground labyrinth.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
16 May 2026
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This little green creature then tries to help the Minions find more monsters to flesh out their film, a plan that unsurprisingly goes awry.—
Jami Ganz,
New York Daily News,
16 May 2026
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In a twist of prehistoric irony, our ancestors’ hunting skills proved too effective, leading to the extinction of mammoths around 10,000 years ago—and mammoth-bone dwellings with them.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
1 May 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.—
Tribune News Service,
Baltimore Sun,
29 Apr. 2026
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“Elephant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/elephant. Accessed 22 May. 2026.
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