as in giant
something that is unusually large and powerful
Leonardo da Vinci remains a colossus in the history of art
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Recent Examples of colossus
Dunk is not the colossus of old Is age and fitness finally catching up to Lewis Dunk?
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Andy Naylor, The Athletic, 16 Dec. 2024
When pro football historians John Turney and Frank Cooney applied a point system based on honors won to rank 60 senior nominees for the Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2025, former Chiefs left tackle Jim Tyrer towered like a colossus above the rest.
—Vahe Gregorian, Kansas City Star, 14 Jan. 2025
Conceived during an administration often synonymous with malaise elevated to a kind of national mood lighting, the department emerged as a federal colossus, ostensibly designed to manage the nation’s educational system with promises of equity, excellence, and upward mobility.
—Michael S. Rose, National Review, 4 Jan. 2025
So did the makers of today’s colossus name their project after the 1940s initiative?
—John Werner, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
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Andy Naylor, The Athletic, 16 Dec. 2024
When pro football historians John Turney and Frank Cooney applied a point system based on honors won to rank 60 senior nominees for the Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2025, former Chiefs left tackle Jim Tyrer towered like a colossus above the rest.
—Vahe Gregorian, Kansas City Star, 14 Jan. 2025
Conceived during an administration often synonymous with malaise elevated to a kind of national mood lighting, the department emerged as a federal colossus, ostensibly designed to manage the nation’s educational system with promises of equity, excellence, and upward mobility.
—Michael S. Rose, National Review, 4 Jan. 2025
So did the makers of today’s colossus name their project after the 1940s initiative?
—John Werner, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for colossus
Noun
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But the Terps have largely been uncompetitive against the Big Ten giants.—
Sam Cohn,
Baltimore Sun,
21 Mar. 2025
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Trombetta never sent cease and desist letters to the two giants in the sports betting industry: FanDuel and DraftKings.—
Alexandra Glorioso,
Miami Herald,
21 Mar. 2025
Noun
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When krill numbers fell again, so did the whales’ songs.—
Bloomberg,
The Mercury News,
18 Mar. 2025
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After dealing with whales and black swans and two of every creature on Noah’s Ark, Darren Aronofsky is going back to the animal kingdom for his next film.—
Brian Welk,
IndieWire,
18 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Fing turns out to be as much as a destructive monster as Myrtle, who in turn, must battle it out with the evil animal park owner, The Viscount (Waititi), determined to own this rarest of creatures.—
Lily Ford,
The Hollywood Reporter,
19 Mar. 2025
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Fing turns out to be as much as a destructive monster as Myrtle, who in turn, must battle it out with the evil animal park owner, The Viscount (Waititi), who is determined to own this rarest of creatures.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
19 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Smaller dinosaurs and other creatures were caught in the mud, unable to escape.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes,
21 Mar. 2025
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For this study, the team used a similar technique to the one used to reconstruct dinosaur coloration.—
Stephanie Edwards,
Discover Magazine,
17 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Engineering The Woolly Mouse—A Mammoth Gene Experiment Bringing back the mammoth is no simple task.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes,
15 Mar. 2025
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Shapiro and her colleagues started by trying to identify the genes responsible for making mammoths distinctive.—
Rob Stein,
NPR,
4 Mar. 2025
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Several tech titans, including Musk, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Apple CEO Tim Cook and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, joined Trump at his inauguration, receiving prime seats for the swearing-in ceremony.—
Julia Shapero,
The Hill,
20 Mar. 2025
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Trump’s inauguration welcomed many of the country’s top tech titans, including Amazon executive chairman Jeff Bezos, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and X owner Elon Musk, who now heads up the controversial cost-cutting Department of Government Efficiency.—
Kevin Collier,
NBC News,
19 Mar. 2025
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“Colossus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/colossus. Accessed 29 Mar. 2025.
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