colossus
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Don’s suit is indented with billowing wrinkles, perhaps to suggest the idea of movement, as if the colossus is soaring through the air.
From Slate • Jun. 2, 2026
Legendary Jazz musician Sonny Rollins, who was known as the "saxophone colossus", has died aged 95.
From BBC • May 26, 2026
McDonald’s traces its roots to a restaurant founded in San Bernardino, Calif., and grew into an international colossus under the leadership of Ray Kroc, who opened a location in a Chicago suburb in 1955.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026
The social networking colossus raised its capital expenditures for this year to a range of $125 billion to $145 billion without laying out exactly how that investment would translate into profit.
From Barron's • Apr. 29, 2026
His face so dusted white he looks like a colossus made of powder.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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