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leviathan

[li-vahy-uh-thuhn] / lɪˈvaɪ ə θən /




NOUN
behemoth
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Example Sentences

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“Forgive me, but from the long look on your face, I thought you had discovered a leviathan in the plumbing.”

From Literature

Here is Melville’s literary leviathan fantastically adorned with more than 270 of Kent’s black-and-white illustrations, many of them a full page in size.

From The Wall Street Journal

It expanded into a $1.8 trillion leviathan through a series of big-ticket mergers.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

A stiff primary challenge from the liberal leviathan, Massachusetts Sen. Edward M. Kennedy.

From Los Angeles Times