colossal
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McDonald, who wrote the bestseller, “A Colossal Failure of Common Sense,” said tech representation in the S&P 500 is so high that retail investors are being force-fed the sector.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026
Colossal co-founder and CEO Ben Lamm acknowledged that a long road will have to be traversed to move from hatching baby chickens to resurrecting the moa by email.
From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026
Colossal Biosciences’ claim to have achieved the ‘de-extinction’ of the dire wolf has been questioned by geneticists, but the media swallowed the claim whole.
From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026
In the case of the allegedly de-extincted “dire wolves,” what Colossal Biosciences actually produced were some gray wolves with 20 gene edits to make them look more like dire wolves.
From Slate • Aug. 8, 2025
The first text adventure game I’d ever played was called Colossal Cave, and initially the text-only interface had seemed incredibly simple and crude to me.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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