colossus
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Gen. Rob Bonta and 11 other state attorneys general who initially fought the formation of a new Hollywood colossus.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
I caught the film at a recent matinee in New Orleans, and children and adults alike gasped at Harryhausen’s movie monsters – from the looming metal colossus of Telos to the hissing and slithering Hydra.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026
"We have lost an absolute colossus, a legend in all our lifetime," he told the crowd.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
Michelangelo wanted to carve a colossus out of a mountain but never did; Borglum cut four.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
To the men in the squadron, Major de Coverley was a colossus, although they never dared tell him so.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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While those football colossi dreamed of taking over the U.S. market, American sports owners took over the powerhouses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
His analysis focused on Shadow of the Colossus, which features a wanderer who travels on horseback to defeat giant beasts known as colossi.
From Salon ● Nov. 13, 2021
The newly unearthed city is located between the temple of King Rameses III and the colossi of Amenhotep III on the west bank of the Nile River in Luxor.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 9, 2021
These glitz-free, idiomatic churches of sweat and sparring - where age-old ring knowledge nurtured colossi such as Sugar Ray Robinson, Jake LaMotta and Riddick Bowe - were already on shaky legs prior to lockdown.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2020
The two most famous colossi are the seated figures in the plain of Thebes.
From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by T. L. (Thomas Louis) Haines
We had been impressed with brief stays in Rochester and Buffalo, two one-time commercial colossuses.
From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2020
Investors are betting, in part, that the Covid-19 crisis accelerates the already growing power of America’s corporate colossuses.
From New York Times ● Apr. 28, 2020
Alisson and Van Dijk are two colossuses – big, confident people.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 14, 2020
But what makes the “Transformers” movies different from other blockbuster colossuses is Bay.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 20, 2017
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What is to resist the combined power of these two colossuses unless the united weight and the united bulk of Germany hinders their embrace?
From Louisa of Prussia and Her Times by L. (Luise) Mühlbach
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