mammoth
Example Sentences
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Many investors and analysts expect Glencore’s mammoth coal business to be sold soon after a deal is completed.
The fourth seed wound back the clock with some phenomenal tennis in set one, securing the critical break in the fourth game after a mammoth 26-point rally.
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This mammoth died nearby, but his carcass slumped into an ancient stream bed and was covered by sediment and eventually topped by the pits’ oozing asphalt, encasing and preserving his bones.
The mammoth Brazilian crop has the U.S. agricultural market worried about overflowing global supplies and bargain prices for beans.
After an electrifying short program gave him a mammoth lead in St. Louis, the 21-year-old known as "Quad God" performed a relatively modest, by his own standards, three quadruple jumps.
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