colossus

Example Sentences

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Instead, it points to a quieter colossus: households.

From BBC • Feb. 19, 2026

"The world has lost a giant. A colossus of African music," a statement shared on his official page said.

From Barron's • Feb. 9, 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

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 colossus lay like a medieval castle, built in the most inaccessible place, protected by precipices and rivers.”

From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin