colossus

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After spending two decades molding Disney into a media colossus, Iger segued into a senior advisory role, which will run through December when he officially retires.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026

Instead, it points to a quieter colossus: households.

From BBC • Feb. 19, 2026

"Uini is someone who showed the right path through his actions -- and always with a smile," said Galthie about the New Zealand-born colossus.

From Barron's • Feb. 3, 2026

For most of his life, Michelangelo’s 16th-century biographer Ascanio Condivi tells us, the artist aspired to carve a colossus out of a coastal mountain, a figure visible from ships at sea.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 13, 2025

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

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton