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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
The work has drawn protests as well as a lawsuit from leaders in the local art and design community, who see the giantess with her white dress blowing up above her waist as cheesy, sexist, or both.
—The Editors Of Artnews, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2019
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
And despite being married to the Aesir Sigyn, Loki had three children with the giantess Angrboda.
—Tribune News Service, cleveland, 19 June 2021
Lauren Groff, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2024
The work has drawn protests as well as a lawsuit from leaders in the local art and design community, who see the giantess with her white dress blowing up above her waist as cheesy, sexist, or both.
—The Editors Of Artnews, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2019
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
And despite being married to the Aesir Sigyn, Loki had three children with the giantess Angrboda.
—Tribune News Service, cleveland, 19 June 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for giantess
Noun
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That reggae giant has now charted for 880 weeks and could be the next title to crack 900.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
6 Apr. 2025
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Jurors found that energy giant Texaco, acquired by Chevron in 2001, had for decades violated Louisiana regulations governing coastal resources by failing to restore wetlands affected by dredging of canals, drilling of wells and by billions of gallons of wastewater dumped into the marsh.—
Jack Brook,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Gone is the cosy globalised world of Bill Clinton and even George W Bush, where America was a benevolent colossus, keeping the peace, spurring prosperity, and putting out financial fires.—
Mike O'Sullivan,
Forbes.com,
5 Apr. 2025
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Bezos founded e-commerce colossus Amazon out of his Seattle garage in 1994.—
Connor Greene,
Forbes,
21 Dec. 2024
Noun
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The Virgin isles are a place of stiff rums rather than grizzled whale meats in the frosty expanse of Greenland.—
Michael Loria,
USA Today,
4 Apr. 2025
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Swimming near whale calves or dolphin nursery groups should remain strictly prohibited.—
Emese Maczko,
Forbes.com,
31 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Like elephants are eating out of our hands and stampeding.—
Julia Moore,
People.com,
8 Apr. 2025
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For 30 years, former circus elephants have gone to retire at this sanctuary just outside of Nashville.—
Rebecca Morin,
USA Today,
1 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Gerry’s option to buy the Sportatorium is conditional on his making the behemoth pleasing to the eye, improving the appearance of the building, the parking lot and the landscaping, Hollander said.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
3 Apr. 2025
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Together with Ross and Related’s current CEO, Jeff Blau, Beal helped build Related Companies into a behemoth that’s developed or acquired $70 billion worth of residential, retail, office, hospitality and data center properties across the U.S., London and Abu Dhabi.—
Giacomo Tognini,
Forbes.com,
29 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Here’s what to know Company creates 'woolly mouse' in quest to bring back mammoths.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA TODAY,
12 Mar. 2025
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Beyond mice and mammoths Colossal’s interests expand further than mice or even mammoths.—
Mitchell Willetts,
Miami Herald,
4 Mar. 2025
Noun
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With time, cunning, and no irony, the Shuberts slew the Syndicate Goliath and built a monopolistic empire of their own that Justice Department lawyers would decades later force into an antitrust settlement.—
Frank Rich,
Vulture,
8 Apr. 2025
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Fenn has appeared in guest roles on a variety of shows: Gilmore Girls, Dawson's Creek, Boston Public, Shameless, Goliath, S.W.A.T., and Shining Vale.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
8 Apr. 2025
Noun
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In the 1930s, researchers used shotguns to shoot stainless steel tubes—bearing an identification number and promise of reward for return—into whales that could be recovered after the marine leviathans had been killed and processed for their blubber.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
26 Mar. 2018
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The Super Bowl was the leviathan in whose eddying wake the pilot fish feed.—
Nick Paumgarten,
The New Yorker,
3 Mar. 2025
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“Giantess.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/giantess. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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