colossus
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He's been a total colossus in this fixture in the past and he was again on Saturday.
From BBC • Mar. 14, 2026
Now, he will oversee all of Disney and its 230,000 workforce as the entertainment colossus tries to soar in the streaming age amid the erosion of the company’s once mighty legacy cable TV business.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 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 Nobel Prize is merely a new version of Charleton’s colossus.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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