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leviathan

[li-vahy-uh-thuhn] / lɪˈvaɪ ə θən /




NOUN
behemoth
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It would be nice to see them begin to extricate the church from the federal leviathan.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 11, 2026

But — and this is one leviathan of a “but” — something else is starting to emerge in the polling.

From Seattle Times Mar. 9, 2024

What an extraordinary signing the Japanese leviathan has been, what a goals haul, what joy he has sparked among the Celtic support.

From BBC Apr. 8, 2023

Plagiarism-detection leviathan Turnitin is touting its own “A.I.” solutions to confront the burgeoning issue.

From Slate Feb. 3, 2023

Somewhere beyond that the groaning leviathan that is Zollverein.

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

Dinios Kol of the Khanum Empire’s justice department is summoned to investigate the murder of a treasury officer in Yarrowdale, where the dead bodies of leviathans are processed into the components of powerful magic.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 12, 2025

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

Pushing further back, Mota’s most recent novel, “El Foso de Mabuya,” or “Mabuya’s Tomb,” envisions leviathans destroying Christopher Columbus’s expedition before it arrives in the Americas and paints the continents as united under Indigenous peoples.

From New York Times Jun. 10, 2023

Hogan’s team hopes to use that breather to fill in vital details about the Mekong’s lengthy list of leviathans.

From Science Magazine May 30, 2023

But such leviathans appeared only late in antiquity, and were exceptional.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro




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