as in whales
something that is unusually large and powerful
even as sport-utility vehicles go, that one is a mammoth
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Recent Examples of mammoths
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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Literary Hub,
10 June 2026
The artificial egg tech is the latest addition to Colossal's list of de-extinction projects, which now span dodo birds, dire wolves, and mammoths.
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Charlotte Phillipp,
PEOPLE,
19 May 2026
Fossils have also been found that indicate the islands were also once home to pygmy mammoths, which only reached 4 to 6 feet tall.
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Tribune News Service,
Baltimore Sun,
29 Apr. 2026
Fossils have also been found that indicate the islands were also once home to pygmy mammoths, which only reached 4 to 6 feet tall.
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Kate Bradshaw,
Mercury News,
23 Mar. 2026
Surviving Earth explores the world 450M years ago featuring giant sea scorpions, mammoths and sabertooths.
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Peter White,
Deadline,
12 Mar. 2026
Unlike typical mice with short gray-brown coats, these woolly mice have long dirty-blond hair that mimics the shaggy fur that helped protect mammoths from the Arctic cold.
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Rob Stein,
NPR,
4 Mar. 2026
Fans typically think of interior defensive linemen as the mammoths of the gridiron who dominate with size and strength.
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Caleb Yum,
Austin American Statesman,
26 Feb. 2026
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.
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Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
10 Feb. 2026
Literary Hub,
10 June 2026
The artificial egg tech is the latest addition to Colossal's list of de-extinction projects, which now span dodo birds, dire wolves, and mammoths.
—
Charlotte Phillipp,
PEOPLE,
19 May 2026
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
Fossils have also been found that indicate the islands were also once home to pygmy mammoths, which only reached 4 to 6 feet tall.
—
Kate Bradshaw,
Mercury News,
23 Mar. 2026
Surviving Earth explores the world 450M years ago featuring giant sea scorpions, mammoths and sabertooths.
—
Peter White,
Deadline,
12 Mar. 2026
Unlike typical mice with short gray-brown coats, these woolly mice have long dirty-blond hair that mimics the shaggy fur that helped protect mammoths from the Arctic cold.
—
Rob Stein,
NPR,
4 Mar. 2026
Fans typically think of interior defensive linemen as the mammoths of the gridiron who dominate with size and strength.
—
Caleb Yum,
Austin American Statesman,
26 Feb. 2026
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mammoths
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The same week of sky that delivers the aurora is also delivering polar bears on the tundra and beluga whales in the estuary.
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This year, the company began offering sailboat trips for between five and 10 people to observe the whales.
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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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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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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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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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“Mammoths.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mammoths. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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