colossus
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It’s a remake that resembles another modern college sports colossus: Indiana football.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026
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
He's been a total colossus in this fixture in the past and he was again on Saturday.
From BBC • Mar. 14, 2026
France head coach Fabien Galthie hailed colossus lock Emmanuel Meafou after his man-of-the-match performance in Sunday's 33-8 Six Nations victory over Italy.
From Barron's • Feb. 22, 2026
In Egypt, a towering colossus, immobile, beyond the power of the imagination to endow with movement, as fixed in the stone as the tremendous temple columns, a representation of the human shape deliberately made unhuman.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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