as in gigantic
unusually large
a mammoth book with color plates of birds native to North America
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as in whale
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 mammoth
Michael Irving, New Atlas, 6 Mar. 2025
These changes were guided by computational analysis of 59 mammoth genomes ranging from 3,500 to over 1.2 million years old.
—Bruce Gil, Quartz, 4 Mar. 2025
John Timmer, Ars Technica, 4 Mar. 2025
Read More: Pre-Clovis Projectiles Hint At Multiple Migrations Hunting Massive and Small Mammals
Ancient people who used Clovis technology typically hunted massive prey, like mammoths and mastodons.
—Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 29 Oct. 2024
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Chris Kirkland For the first two billion years of its life, Earth was regularly pummeled by huge space rocks, including an absolutely mammoth collision with a Mars-sized body that gave birth to the Moon about 4.5 billion years ago.
—Michael Irving, New Atlas, 6 Mar. 2025
These changes were guided by computational analysis of 59 mammoth genomes ranging from 3,500 to over 1.2 million years old.
—Bruce Gil, Quartz, 4 Mar. 2025
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Most of the genetic changes were first identified in mice, not mammoths.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 4 Mar. 2025
Read More: Pre-Clovis Projectiles Hint At Multiple Migrations Hunting Massive and Small Mammals
Ancient people who used Clovis technology typically hunted massive prey, like mammoths and mastodons.
—Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 29 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mammoth
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Then try Wilmot’s Warehouse, a strangely cheerful take on working in a gigantic storage warehouse.—
Lewis Gordon,
Vulture,
19 Mar. 2025
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Explaining this, the paper proposes that the gigantic impact which formed the roughly 1,600 mile (2,500 kilometers) wide SPA basin around 4.2 billion years ago modified the chemical and physical properties of the moon's mantle in this region.—
Andrew Jones,
Space.com,
18 Mar. 2025
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Environmentalists said that oil and chemicals posed a risk to sea life, including whales and dolphins and to birds, including puffins, gannets and guillemots that live on coastal cliffs.—
Faisal Kutty,
Newsweek,
12 Mar. 2025
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Ritter's photo depicts a human alongside a whale, who has since died, the image's caption reveals.—
Bailey Richards,
People.com,
11 Mar. 2025
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She’s accompanied by Cosmo, a robot with a giant cartoon head and the soulful eyes of someone—or something—that might be more than just a machine.—
Tony Bradley,
Forbes,
14 Mar. 2025
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The surviving robots, meanwhile, got sent to a giant prison colony somewhere in the deserts of the American Southwest.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
14 Mar. 2025
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Choose from fun themes like animals, unicorns and princesses, and dinosaurs.—
Jacquelyn Smith,
Parents,
10 Mar. 2025
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Turn snack time into play time with four fun dinosaur shapes that are perfect for sharing, baking and decorating.—
Russel Honoré,
Newsweek,
5 Mar. 2025
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The Atlanta Braves suffered a huge hit to the roster last season when their ace Spencer Strider went down with a torn UCL.—
Mark Davis,
Newsweek,
17 Mar. 2025
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Watching this film will be huge, and then Coach getting on our (butts) will be big for us.—
Colleen Kane,
Chicago Tribune,
17 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), 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
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The property also comes with an enormous 5,282 square feet of garage space and 2,295 square feet of covered porches and loggias.—
David Caraccio,
Sacramento Bee,
20 Mar. 2025
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Last weekend's enormous storm spun 100 tornadoes so far confirmed by the National Weather Service, which is still conducting surveys.—
John Bacon,
USA TODAY,
20 Mar. 2025
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Hippos and elephants often show up near the communal terrace.—
Chris Schalkx,
Travel + Leisure,
16 Mar. 2025
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Every year, hundreds of people around the world are killed or injured by elephants due to conflict between humans and elephants, conversation groups said.—
Doc Louallen,
ABC News,
14 Mar. 2025
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“Mammoth.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mammoth. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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