sleeping giant

noun

: one that has great but unrealized or newly emerging power

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Read more: 1st monster black hole ever pictured erupts with surprise gamma-ray explosion 6) Gaia discovers sleeping giant black hole close to Earth In April 2024, the star-tracking space telescope Gaia discovered its third black hole. Robert Lea, Space.com, 30 Dec. 2024 Latinos are no longer the sleeping giant of American politics. Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2024 North Carolina: 0 This unquestioned basketball school has been long considered a sleeping giant in football but has yet to wake up. Stewart Mandel, The Athletic, 3 July 2024 Eighty-three years after the Pearl Harbor attacks, here's a look at some of the photos during and after the bombings that awoke the sleeping giant. James Powel, USA TODAY, 6 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for sleeping giant 

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First Known Use

1970, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of sleeping giant was in 1970

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“Sleeping giant.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sleeping%20giant. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.

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