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Recent Examples of giantess
Released in 1958, Attack told of a wealthy heiress, fresh from a stint at a mental institution, who is turned into a giantess and then deals with her philandering husband and his no-good, money-grubbing floozy.
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Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 9 Jan. 2026
Leppaluoi, their dad, is lazy and stays in the cave, and their mom, Gryla, is a giantess who seeks out naughty children to add to her stew.
—Carlie Procell, USA Today, 20 Dec. 2025
Stewart herself is certainly no stranger to starring in movies that are a little off the wall; Love Lies Bleeding, famously, ended with (spoiler alert) what basically amounted to a giantess fantasy sequence.
—James Factora, Them., 7 Oct. 2025
Moroney is standing on the shoulders of other giantesses, too, but combining some of their different qualities in an interesting way — as girly as Shania Twain on the surface level but at least somewhere on the same toughness scale that is topped by Miranda Lambert, too.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 6 Oct. 2025
In the 1958 Hollywood movie, Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman, a giantess played by Allison Hayes squashed men like bugs until the town sheriff killed her.
—Jane Smiley
june 20, Literary Hub, 20 June 2025
Maybe her fans didn’t recognize her because the performer is a giantess and the person is merely person-size.
—Lauren Groff, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2024
Salerno plays 30 characters from inside a small box, ranging from a drunken couple in Las Vegas to a lonely giantess, a lost pope and the entire Greek army.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2022
Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 9 Jan. 2026
Leppaluoi, their dad, is lazy and stays in the cave, and their mom, Gryla, is a giantess who seeks out naughty children to add to her stew.
—Carlie Procell, USA Today, 20 Dec. 2025
Stewart herself is certainly no stranger to starring in movies that are a little off the wall; Love Lies Bleeding, famously, ended with (spoiler alert) what basically amounted to a giantess fantasy sequence.
—James Factora, Them., 7 Oct. 2025
Moroney is standing on the shoulders of other giantesses, too, but combining some of their different qualities in an interesting way — as girly as Shania Twain on the surface level but at least somewhere on the same toughness scale that is topped by Miranda Lambert, too.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 6 Oct. 2025
In the 1958 Hollywood movie, Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman, a giantess played by Allison Hayes squashed men like bugs until the town sheriff killed her.
—Jane Smiley
june 20, Literary Hub, 20 June 2025
Maybe her fans didn’t recognize her because the performer is a giantess and the person is merely person-size.
—Lauren Groff, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2024
Salerno plays 30 characters from inside a small box, ranging from a drunken couple in Las Vegas to a lonely giantess, a lost pope and the entire Greek army.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for giantess
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DeepSeek, Alibaba, and other Chinese tech giants ByteDance and Tencent have been granted conditional approvals by Beijing to purchase a certain amount of H200s, Reuters reported last month, citing anonymous sources.—
John Liu,
CNN Money,
11 Feb. 2026
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Tech giants have repeatedly relied on Section 230, a federal law that shields them from liability over content that their users post, as a defense against safety claims.—
CNN.com Wire Service,
Mercury News,
11 Feb. 2026
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The pope, at this very moment, is having the fallen part of the Colosseum rebuilt; half a dozen mason’s apprentices, without any scaffolding, are righting the colossus on whose shoulders a nation, transformed into slave laborers, perished.—
Sean Williams,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
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One wonders how many of the Mecum audience this year had family members keeping themselves entertained at the adjacent entertainment colossus.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
23 Jan. 2026
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But that is where a team with arguably the most forward-facing executive in the NBA, if not in all of sports, had to be forward facing, with a media session with the same type of clarity as all those times after landing, for lack of better phrasing, a whale.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
7 Feb. 2026
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The whales are selling up, according to Jefferies analyst Andrew Moss.—
Jim Edwards,
Fortune,
6 Feb. 2026
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Zimbabwe’s biggest national park also houses large elephant populations and more than 400 bird species.—
Taryn White,
Travel + Leisure,
11 Feb. 2026
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For his latest documentary the German filmmaker behind Grizzly Man and Cave of Forgotten Dreams follows conservation biologist and National Geographic Explorer Steve Boyes on his obsessive quest to find the mythical ghost elephants of Lisima in the highlands of Angola.—
Katie Kilkenny,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Feb. 2026
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The stock, which has roughly doubled over the past 12 months to an all-time high of $742, has vastly outperformed such tech behemoths as Apple (up 20%) and Microsoft (up about 1%).—
Sheryl Estrada,
Fortune,
11 Feb. 2026
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Steal faced some tough competition from streaming behemoths like Bridgerton, which returned with Season 4 at the end of January and dominated the Luminate chart last week.—
Katie Campione,
Deadline,
10 Feb. 2026
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Unlike many slow-moving urban mammoths, this could be a model for how to integrate local desires with capitalist imperatives to deliver your friendly neighborhood megaproject.—
Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
10 Feb. 2026
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Savvy ancestors As mammoths and elephants were rare in prehistoric England, the discovery highlights the advanced cognitive skills of early humans.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
21 Jan. 2026
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Bringing Colter on board gives another boost to Cupertino — described as a David vs Goliath legal drama set in Silicon Valley — which is targeted for the 2026-27 season.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
6 Aug. 2025
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The show is described as a David vs. Goliath legal drama set in Silicon Valley.—
Joe Otterson,
Variety,
6 Aug. 2025
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Marx’s account of class struggle and socio-economic inevitability is a philosophical leviathan.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
5 Feb. 2026
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Next Friday, the country’s government will ask a Paris judge to suspend the e-tail leviathan’s French marketplace for three months, a finance ministry official said Tuesday.—
Jasmin Malik Chua,
Sourcing Journal,
25 Nov. 2025
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“Giantess.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/giantess. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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