as in whale
something that is unusually large and powerful
the Great Pyramids of Egypt are giants among the world's architectural wonders
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as in gigantic
unusually large
the giant sycamore tree that dwarfs our house is almost 250 years old
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Recent Examples of giant
Julia Shapero, The Hill, 17 Apr. 2025
Banco Santander is the fifth-largest auto lender in the country and is expanding through a recent partnership with telecom giant Verizon.
—Ruxandra Iordache, CNBC, 17 Apr. 2025
Joe Otterson, Variety, 17 Apr. 2025
Last month, the Trump Organization sued the giant financial services company Capital One for shutting the organization’s accounts after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
—Robert B. Reich, Hartford Courant, 17 Apr. 2025
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Noun
Google has a monopoly over both markets, the judge ruled, pointing to the tech giant’s dominance in both.
—Julia Shapero, The Hill, 17 Apr. 2025
Banco Santander is the fifth-largest auto lender in the country and is expanding through a recent partnership with telecom giant Verizon.
—Ruxandra Iordache, CNBC, 17 Apr. 2025
Adjective
In response, humans begin constructing giant fighting robots called Jaegers.
—Joe Otterson, Variety, 17 Apr. 2025
Last month, the Trump Organization sued the giant financial services company Capital One for shutting the organization’s accounts after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
—Robert B. Reich, Hartford Courant, 17 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for giant
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Two years ago after a request from Congressional opponents of wind energy, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) began investigating whether the offshore wind industry kills whales.—
Jeongyoon Han,
NPR,
17 Apr. 2025
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Five whales were spotted traveling with Check, making the rescue mission unsafe, officials said.—
Paloma Chavez,
Sacbee.com,
15 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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But seeing the slow nature of gigantic bureaucratic machines such as these, this is not enough to move beyond policy to practice.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes.com,
23 Apr. 2025
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The Bucks predictably got a massive game from Giannis Antetokounmpo, who scored 36 points to go with 12 rebounds, but the absence of their point guard, Lillard, was a gigantic blow.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 Apr. 2025
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The landscapes, bracketed by Russia and China borderlines, have stories to tell, from the Steppe grasslands, where Chinggis Khaan (aka Genghis Khan) once rode, to the Gobi Desert, where arid landscapes belie subterranean layers rich in coal, gold, and dinosaur bones.—
AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
25 Apr. 2025
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Subjects range from a dinosaur fossil dig in Central China, the opening of Cuba to American tourists, the new energy in Vienna and the best seafood spots on Canada’s Prince Edward Island to a luxury camp in Antarctica and the best new restaurant in New York.—
Laurie Werner,
Forbes.com,
25 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Scammers convince you to take cash to a bitcoin ATM Her story highlights one huge red flag that consumers must watch out for these days — how scammers are convincing you to take cash to a crypto ATM at the local party store, gas station or grocery.—
Susan Tompor,
USA Today,
22 Apr. 2025
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When Sheinbaum was six years old, the military, on the President’s orders, attacked a huge student protest in the Three Cultures square in Mexico City.—
Stephania Taladrid,
New Yorker,
21 Apr. 2025
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The Switch was a monster, so the assumption is that sure, players will pay a full 50% more for a new one, if not more.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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Oviedo and Sepúlveda shared with las Casas the view that Indians were not monsters and did, in fact, have souls that could be saved (a matter of debate for much of the sixteenth century).—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
23 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Then the Giants sent an enormous contingent of coaches and evaluators to Oxford, Miss., the week of March 19 for their own private work with Dart.—
Pat Leonard,
New York Daily News,
25 Apr. 2025
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Dozens of David Bowie Albums Have Cracked the Top 10 Throughout his unparalleled career, Bowie racked up an enormous number of top 10s on the Official Physical Albums chart.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
25 Apr. 2025
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Colossal plans to use similar techniques to bring back the Ice Age woolly mammoth in 2028, editing living cell nuclei from Asian elephants—the mammoth’s closest living kin—to express mammoth traits preserved in nearly 60 sets of Ice Age remains.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
7 Apr. 2025
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The company intends to bring back its version of a mammoth in 2028.—
Paul Smaglik,
Discover Magazine,
4 Mar. 2025
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In Season 1, Cassian was part of a massive prison break and an insurrection against Imperial forces in his home of Ferrix.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
23 Apr. 2025
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Despite its massive budget, it’s never passed a clean audit, and its outdated systems and lax fraud controls leave taxpayers footing the bill for untold losses.—
Richard Stern and Katherine Miller/ The Heritage Foundation,
Boston Herald,
22 Apr. 2025
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“Giant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/giant. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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