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colossus

[kuh-los-uhs] / kəˈlɒs əs /


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

From Salon Aug. 2, 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

The suit from the 12 state attorneys general, led by California, represents the most serious obstacle yet to Paramount Chief Executive David Ellison’s efforts to create an entertainment colossus.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 14, 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

But Diderot’s name for this newly born colossus is not ‘Science’, as we might expect.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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 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

The guards of the Legion galloped about at random; the people climbed upon the houses, the terraces, the shoulders of the colossuses, and the masts of the ships.

From Salammbo by Flaubert, Gustave




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