leviathan
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As Ms. Aikin shows, in many ways the modern governmental leviathan would not be possible without the manifold collections and reference services of the Library of Congress.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 25, 2025
A stiff primary challenge from the liberal leviathan, Massachusetts Sen. Edward M. Kennedy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2024
But — and this is one leviathan of a “but” — something else is starting to emerge in the polling.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 9, 2024
CEO Kim Bayley said gaming "continued to show its ability to connect with people" last year, and despite the modest growth the industry "remains a leviathan".
From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2024
Then I saw a long shadow pass underneath me—a leviathan somehow lit from beneath—and I gulped.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
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Jerry Jones and Robert Kraft are the octogenarian owners, respectively, of the Dallas Cowboys and the New England Patriots; both built leviathans for football stadiums while finding creative ways to expand the NFL brand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025
In 2020, a team of marine biologists and computer scientists joined forces to analyze the click-clacking songs of sperm whales, the gray, block-shaped leviathans that swim in most of the world’s oceans.
From New York Times ● May 7, 2024
In his 1851 novel Moby Dick, Herman Melville describes right whales as “the most venerable of the leviathans, being the one first regularly hunted by man.”
From National Geographic ● Jan. 25, 2024
Though these leviathans are often loners, they can live for more than 200 years, making their longevity more than double that of more social species such as sperm and humpback whales.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 31, 2023
But such leviathans appeared only late in antiquity, and were exceptional.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
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