as in giant
something that is unusually large and powerful
this newest ocean liner is a true titan of the sea
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Recent Examples of titan
The question of who succeeds the 70-year-old banking titan has become one of corporate America’s longest-running succession stories.
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Ruth Umoh,
Fortune,
30 June 2026
Its storied alumni include postwar painting titan Robert Rauschenberg, Color Field pioneer Kenneth Noland, and celebrated wire sculptor Ruth Asawa.
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Tessa Solomon,
ARTnews.com,
30 June 2026
Even titans like four-time World Cup winner Italy failed to qualify this year.
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Deborah Danan,
Sun Sentinel,
29 June 2026
Film industry titans like Polaroid and Kodak had shrunk dramatically from their heyday, becoming shells of their former selves.
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Rotem Rozental,
The Conversation,
29 June 2026
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Ruth Umoh,
Fortune,
30 June 2026
Its storied alumni include postwar painting titan Robert Rauschenberg, Color Field pioneer Kenneth Noland, and celebrated wire sculptor Ruth Asawa.
—
Tessa Solomon,
ARTnews.com,
30 June 2026
Even titans like four-time World Cup winner Italy failed to qualify this year.
—
Deborah Danan,
Sun Sentinel,
29 June 2026
Film industry titans like Polaroid and Kodak had shrunk dramatically from their heyday, becoming shells of their former selves.
—
Rotem Rozental,
The Conversation,
29 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for titan
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Since then, the commission has widened its crackdown on digital giants with more antitrust investigations targeting Amazon, Apple and Facebook and sweeping new rules aimed at clamping down on the biggest digital companies.
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In the years since, Monsanto, now owned by German chemical giant Bayer, has paid out over $10 billion to settle about 100,000 claims from people who said their health was harmed after they were exposed to Roundup.
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Those include swimming dolphins, traveling in space, and taking a bath with a whale.
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Along with a full roster of shows and entertainment, the ship will sail with a whale specialist during summer months.
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Go on, put the 131-cube (2,147 cc) monster engine into that one.
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There’s no way the doll monsters at the pond were the whole point of the Lake of Tears, right?
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Technology has come a long way since the dinosaur tail bone was first found, allowing researchers to peer inside bones and gain even more detailed information about ancient creatures.
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As reported by the New York Times, the statue by artist Aldo Beroisa follows from other creations of his including statues of dinosaurs and Jesus, and has been in the works for more than a year.
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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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For the next 49,000 years, the sticky pits captured virtually everything that fell or walked onto them, from grains of pollen borne by the wind to hapless ancient camels and Columbian mammoths.
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Nuevo León is the country’s muscular northern colossus.
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Patrick Vieira was 24 years old and totally immersed in his career, a midfield colossus with Arsenal and a World Cup winner with France, when the call of Africa became overwhelming.
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“Titan.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/titan. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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