colossus

He was, Mr. Vague writes, “a colossus presiding over the financial landscape of the new republic.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

Paramount is the smallest of the major media companies and acquiring Warner Bros. is key to David Ellison’s ambitions to build a new Hollywood colossus.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

"We have lost an absolute colossus, a legend in all our lifetime," he told the crowd.

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026

Don’s suit is indented with billowing wrinkles, perhaps to suggest the idea of movement, as if the colossus is soaring through the air.

From Slate ● Jun. 2, 2026

His face so dusted white he looks like a colossus made of powder.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

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

Now, at least a half-dozen factories in Tunisia produce cans of tuna ranging in size from hockey pucks to 11-pound colossi.

From New York Times ● Jul. 3, 2023

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

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

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

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 Mühlbach, L. (Luise)