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colossus

[kuh-los-uhs] / kəˈlɒs əs /


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Only then do we see this dark colossus for the slight creature he always was.

From Salon Aug. 2, 2026

Paramount is the smallest of the major media companies and acquiring Warner Bros. is key to Ellison’s ambitions to build a new Hollywood colossus.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 31, 2026

"He was a colossus in UTV," Adrian said.

From BBC Jul. 26, 2026

He was, Mr. Vague writes, “a colossus presiding over the financial landscape of the new republic.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

The colossus strikes the temple, which collapses, and Mangogul stirs.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

Each of these colossi is made from a single block of stone such as is not found within several days' journey of the place where they stand.

From A History of Art for Beginners and Students Painting, Sculpture, Architecture by Clara Erskine Clement Waters

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

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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