as in whales
something or someone that is unusually large and powerful
mom-and-pop stores just can't compete with these mastodons of retailing
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Noun
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Think of chickens as tiny T-Rex dinosaurs with feathers.—
Sal Gilbertie,
Forbes,
24 Mar. 2025 -
Chickens are like miniature dinosaurs Some theorize that chickens are related to dinosaurs, which would not be surprising.—
Sal Gilbertie,
Forbes,
24 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Three-time league MVP Jokić no doubt heard those chants and cut a frustrated figure in the fourth quarter, often not able to assert his will on the game when faced by the Thunder’s two giants, Chet Holmgren and Isaiah Hartenstein.—
Matias Grez,
CNN,
10 Mar. 2025
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Shein and Temu, competing Chinese e-commerce giants that together hold at least a third of the de minimis industry, coordinate much of their supply chains from large offices in Guangzhou.—
Keith Bradsher,
New York Times,
14 Feb. 2025
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In some scenes of the film, the relationship remains much closer as in Myanmar, where loggers use elephants to move giant trees felled for timber.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
23 Mar. 2025
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The elephant is, quite appropriately, according to Jonathan Haidt’s beloved analogy for Daniel Kahneman’s System 1 / System 2 duo, the emotion itself.—
Tim Maurer,
Forbes,
23 Mar. 2025
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“Mastodons.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mastodons. Accessed 20 Apr. 2025.
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