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gorilla

[guh-ril-uh] / gəˈrɪl ə /










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But it’s not an easy decision, Suk added, because Meta “is the 800-pound gorilla in the room” when it comes to online advertising.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 16, 2026

“The competitive reality is that the Chinese are the 700-pound gorilla in the EV industry,” Ford CEO Jim Farley told me in an interview last year.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

BlackRock has long been the 800-pound gorilla of the ETF industry, with more than $5 trillion in assets.

From Barron's • Jan. 22, 2026

Thanks to anti-poaching patrols and community programmes - supported by the European Union and Unesco - mountain gorilla numbers in Virunga have slowly increased over the past decade.

From BBC • Jan. 7, 2026

It would be easier to promise to stop eating, to stop breathing, to stop being a gorilla.

From "The One and Only Ivan" by Katherine Applegate




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