colossi

plural of colossus

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Noun
  • Except buying Madrid is impossible because the Spanish giants have never been for sale.
    Phil Hay, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • For the first time, a rocket aims to surpass the past giants in power and capacity and make space travel economically sustainable.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Driftwood tent shelters appear marooned like shipwrecks, and the beach is scattered with the bones of the giant whales.
    Chloe Berge, AFAR Media, 15 Oct. 2025
  • It was enacted the year before the Endangered Species Act, at a time when the movement to save whales from extinction was growing.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Meanwhile warm-up demonstrations in Portland feature protestors in inflatable animal costumes—lots of frogs, along with unicorns, chickens, dinosaurs dancing in the streets, providing an alternative visual to the menace of masked enforcement agents.
    Nancy Gibbs, Time, 17 Oct. 2025
  • But this may be the first tech revolution that doesn’t vaporize the dinosaurs, the way mobile killed Nokia and threatened Microsoft, but grafts their DNA onto something new.
    Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The project — which chronicles the adventures of Huntrix, a K-pop girl group comprising three members who just happen to also fight monsters from the underworld — has been a surprise hit for the streamer, and its soundtrack has spent several weeks in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 chart.
    Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 15 Oct. 2025
  • As with the tikbálang, many monsters' status as threatening beings started within the confines of colonialism, Zarka pointed out.
    Jose R. Gonzalez, AZCentral.com, 15 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In a study published in Cell, researchers set out to trace the microbial companions of mammoths across a staggering timeline, from over a million years ago to their final days on Wrangel Island just 4,000 years ago.
    Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Colossal's de-extinction projects now span dodos, dire wolves, mammoths, and moas.
    Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Lamar and Clipse, however, are lyrical titans.
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2025
  • In the lead-up to the clash of the NL titans, Murphy explained what makes the Dodgers such a special team, highlighting their depth at most positions and a deep lineup full of stars.
    Nelson Espinal, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
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“Colossi.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/colossi. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.

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