colossus

Its rise has been powered by the country’s rapid emergence as a colossus in shipbuilding and as the biggest sea-trading nation, the Journal’s Niharika Mandhana, Josh Chin and Camille Bressange report.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

Gen. Rob Bonta and 11 other state attorneys general who initially fought the formation of a new Hollywood colossus.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

Spanish football commentator Alvaro Romeo says three years ago Araujo was "a colossus" during Barca's title-winning run.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

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

From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026

Traditional histories like to equate Beethoven, the colossus of music in the early 1800s, with his contemporary Napoleon Bonaparte, revolutionary-turned-Emperor and serial military adventurer.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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

The two most famous colossi are the seated figures in the plain of Thebes.

From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by T. L. (Thomas Louis) Haines

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