colossus
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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 Ellison’s ambitions to build a new Hollywood colossus.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
"He was a colossus in UTV," Adrian said.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
Microsoft is one of OpenAI’s oldest partners and has invested billions helping to build the company into the colossus it is today.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
“The colossus lay like a medieval castle, built in the most inaccessible place, protected by precipices and rivers.”
From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin
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
There were no remains whatever of the superstructure which once rose above the colossi, guarding this magnificent entrance.
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
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