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
Soon, two of the titans of the age and place — Southern Pacific railroad man Collis P. Huntington and L.A. Times owner Harrison Gray Otis — engaged in a Godzilla-versus-King Kong struggle over where to put L.A.’s official port: Santa Monica or San Pedro?
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Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2025
But what do our most powerful and controversial tech titans—the Zuckerbergs, the Musks, the Thiels, the Altmans—have to say for themselves, and to one another, in private?
—Judy Berman, Time, 23 May 2025
Just a block from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, it was built in the 1910s for an heiress to the retail titan Frank Woolworth.
—Alex Vadukul, New York Times, 21 May 2025
These books have shaped the strategies of Wall Street titans, informed the decisions of retail investors, and continue to influence financial markets worldwide.
—Robert Daugherty, Forbes.com, 23 May 2025
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Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2025
But what do our most powerful and controversial tech titans—the Zuckerbergs, the Musks, the Thiels, the Altmans—have to say for themselves, and to one another, in private?
—Judy Berman, Time, 23 May 2025
Just a block from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, it was built in the 1910s for an heiress to the retail titan Frank Woolworth.
—Alex Vadukul, New York Times, 21 May 2025
These books have shaped the strategies of Wall Street titans, informed the decisions of retail investors, and continue to influence financial markets worldwide.
—Robert Daugherty, Forbes.com, 23 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for titan
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Surely, organizers figured that Lionel Messi and his high-profile teammates would fill seats so close to home, but Al Ahly, while an Egyptian power, is not as big a draw as the Latin American and European giants in the tournament.—
Michelle Kaufman,
Miami Herald,
5 June 2025
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The soda giant sources aluminum for its cans from Canada, Quincey said on a February company earnings call.—
Anne Marie D. Lee,
CBS News,
5 June 2025
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Sightings of dead whales should be reported to the Academy's department of Ornithology and Mammalogy.—
Hollie Silverman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 May 2025
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The establishment of the Orcas, whose team colors are distinctly light green but also has black, white and orange to reflect the natural colors of the orca whale, has been a welcome start to igniting cricket in the area.—
Tristan Lavalette,
Forbes.com,
29 May 2025
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The message of Bring Her Back may be that grief is the real monster.—
Megan McCluskey,
Time,
30 May 2025
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But what’s interesting here is that Armstrong doesn’t write Venis as a one-dimensional monster.—
Andrew Wallenstein,
Variety,
28 May 2025
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The first song teaches little ones to count to 10 with the help of colorful dinosaur friends.—
Elisabeth Sherman,
Parents,
30 May 2025
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While studies have found that bed bugs have been on Earth since the dinosaurs, the estimated 90 species of the arthropods shared a fairly stable symbiotic relationship with their hosts – until human ancestors began forming societies and living in close proximity.—
Bronwyn Thompson,
New Atlas,
28 May 2025
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Another challenge lies in behavioral uncertainty—will a mammoth born to an elephant behave like a mammoth, or will its instincts be lost?—
Scott Travers,
Forbes,
15 Mar. 2025
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All of them successfully expressed the gold, woolly hair of the mammoth as well as its accelerated lipid metabolism.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
TIME,
4 Mar. 2025
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India’s media colossus JioStar is doubling down on content investment, pouring approximately $3.6 billion into programming this year, with plans to increase spending further in 2026, according to vice chair Uday Shankar.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
4 May 2025
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Snow White is, for better and (mostly) worse, a product of a corporation that has for years been lumbering after its idea of the Zeitgeist with all the agility of an aging colossus.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
19 Mar. 2025
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“Titan.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/titan. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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