as in whales
something that is unusually large and powerful
the winner in the contest for biggest pumpkin was a jumbo that weighed in at over a thousand pounds
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Options for activities include paddleboarding and chasing Arctic swells in the fjords, sailing through sea cliffs and the uninhabited Hornstrandir Nature Reserve, and spotting whales, seals, Arctic foxes, and more wildlife.
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Wall Street whales can’t jump into our profitable CEF pond.
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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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Experts are invited to experience an amusement park built around cloned dinosaurs.
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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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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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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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“Jumbos.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jumbos. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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