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Recent Examples of giantess
Maybe her fans didn’t recognize her because the performer is a giantess and the person is merely person-size.
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Lauren Groff, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2024
Maybe her fans didn’t recognize her because the performer is a giantess and the person is merely person-size.
—Lauren Groff, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2024
Eventually, a foresty mountain-scape is revealed to be Swift as a prone, green giantess, while Ice Spice is both sides now of a heavenly cloud formation.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 27 May 2023
Salerno plays 30 characters from inside a small box, ranging from a drunken couple in Las Vegas to a lonely giantess, a lost pope and the entire Greek army.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2022
Back in the woods and trying to find a way to stop a vengeful giantess, the Baker’s Wife ends up running into Cinderella’s Prince.
—Vulture, 16 Aug. 2022
Leppaluoi, their dad, is lazy and stays in the cave, and their mom, Gryla, is a giantess who seeks out naughty children to add to her stew.
—Jennifer Borresen, USA Today, 20 Dec. 2022
In Vidura’s telling, the elephant has six heads and the traveler has been chased into the forest by a giantess, but the rest was familiar: a monster in a pit, rats and bees, the man desperately slurping honey.
—Hari Kunzru, Harper’s Magazine , 4 Jan. 2022
Among the ones that have survived, Loki has changed into a fly, an old lady, a salmon, a bridesmaid, a giantess and others.
—Tribune News Service, cleveland, 19 June 2021
Lauren Groff, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2024
Maybe her fans didn’t recognize her because the performer is a giantess and the person is merely person-size.
—Lauren Groff, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2024
Eventually, a foresty mountain-scape is revealed to be Swift as a prone, green giantess, while Ice Spice is both sides now of a heavenly cloud formation.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 27 May 2023
Salerno plays 30 characters from inside a small box, ranging from a drunken couple in Las Vegas to a lonely giantess, a lost pope and the entire Greek army.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2022
Back in the woods and trying to find a way to stop a vengeful giantess, the Baker’s Wife ends up running into Cinderella’s Prince.
—Vulture, 16 Aug. 2022
Leppaluoi, their dad, is lazy and stays in the cave, and their mom, Gryla, is a giantess who seeks out naughty children to add to her stew.
—Jennifer Borresen, USA Today, 20 Dec. 2022
In Vidura’s telling, the elephant has six heads and the traveler has been chased into the forest by a giantess, but the rest was familiar: a monster in a pit, rats and bees, the man desperately slurping honey.
—Hari Kunzru, Harper’s Magazine , 4 Jan. 2022
Among the ones that have survived, Loki has changed into a fly, an old lady, a salmon, a bridesmaid, a giantess and others.
—Tribune News Service, cleveland, 19 June 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for giantess
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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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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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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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Examples include barnacles growing on turtle shells or a whale.—
Saleen Martin,
USA Today,
22 May 2025
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Its approach mirrors that used for the dire wolf: comparing ancient mammoth DNA with that of its closest living relative, the Asian elephant, and introducing mammoth genes associated with cold tolerance.—
Nia Bowers,
USA Today,
24 May 2025
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At the Tulsa Zoo, Billy and Tina will be joined in a 17-acre enclosure by five other Asian elephants.—
Hailey Branson-Potts,
Los Angeles Times,
23 May 2025
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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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Supermassive black holes are behemoths that weigh in at several million to billion times the mass of our own sun.—
Ian Randall,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 May 2025
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Colossal has said their vision of restoring the woolly mammoth would not only prove that a massive extinct animal can be brought back but that the mammoth, if it could be reinserted into the Arctic region, would improve the ecosystem and help combat global warming.—
Mike Snider,
USA Today,
16 Apr. 2025
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At about nine feet tall at the shoulder and seven tons, Mammut were a little shorter and stockier-looking than mammoths.—
Riley Black,
Smithsonian Magazine,
3 Apr. 2025
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Years before Apple’s famous ad broadcast during the 1984 Super Bowl, Wang produced an ad for the 1978 Super Bowl—with help from a very young Ridley Scott, who went on to an extraordinary career as a Hollywood director—that featured Wang as David and IBM as Goliath.—
Pat Butler,
Sportico.com,
16 May 2025
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And that really is first and foremost the reason David vs. Goliath became an all-time great.—
Dalton Ross,
EW.com,
15 May 2025
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But how could anyone ever hope to win a fight against the federal leviathan when the people have been bought off by Social Security?—
Zack Beauchamp,
Vox,
7 Dec. 2018
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But in the last four years, the agency has veered off track—doubling in size and turning into a sprawling leviathan plagued by mission creep, financial mismanagement, and waste.—
Kevin Sabet,
Newsweek,
24 Mar. 2025
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“Giantess.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/giantess. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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