as in giant
something that is unusually large and powerful
the newest SUV is a gas-guzzling behemoth that doesn't even fit in a standard parking space
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Recent Examples of behemoth
The blows are eroding the allure the healthcare behemoth once held for investors.
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Amina Niasse, USA Today, 18 May 2025
Walmart executives have recently acknowledged uncertainty as to how tariffs might affect the company’s bottom line, while stressing that the retail behemoth is well positioned to navigate the turmoil.
—Danielle Kaye, New York Times, 15 May 2025
Those stats are among the reasons why, in 1990, fast-food behemoths McDonald’s, Burger King, and Wendy’s stopped putting beef tallow in their fryers.
—Emily Saladino, Bon Appetit Magazine, 12 May 2025
Spotify, the industry’s behemoth, claims that its fraud detection programs caught Smith’s alleged chicanery.
—Kate Knibbs, Wired News, 20 May 2025
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Amina Niasse, USA Today, 18 May 2025
Walmart executives have recently acknowledged uncertainty as to how tariffs might affect the company’s bottom line, while stressing that the retail behemoth is well positioned to navigate the turmoil.
—Danielle Kaye, New York Times, 15 May 2025
Those stats are among the reasons why, in 1990, fast-food behemoths McDonald’s, Burger King, and Wendy’s stopped putting beef tallow in their fryers.
—Emily Saladino, Bon Appetit Magazine, 12 May 2025
Spotify, the industry’s behemoth, claims that its fraud detection programs caught Smith’s alleged chicanery.
—Kate Knibbs, Wired News, 20 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for behemoth
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Now, as a Wall Street giant suddenly flips from gold to bitcoin, the bitcoin price is braced for a huge week that will see U.S. president Donald Trump’s vice president JD Vance speak alongside Trump’s crypto czar David Sacks at the Bitcoin 2025 conference.—
Billy Bambrough,
Forbes.com,
24 May 2025
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The gas giant's influential place in shaping our solar system is what intrigued the researchers to take a closer look it it.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
24 May 2025
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Horrifying images of dead albatrosses with clusters of colorful plastic spilling from their bodies, turtles eating plastic bags and whales entangled in plastic fishing nets are testament to how this pollution is affecting marine life.—
Laura Paddison,
CNN Money,
23 May 2025
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Warming oceans bleach coral reefs, disrupt monsoons, and alter migratory routes of birds, whales, and butterflies.—
Dianne Plummer,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2025
Noun
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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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Almost anyone 18 and older that appears onscreen is a monster here, and anyone younger is either prey or a means to an end.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
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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“Behemoth.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/behemoth. Accessed 6 Jun. 2025.
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