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gorilla

[guh-ril-uh] / gəˈrɪl ə /










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The Nvidia gorilla is so big, the debt required to keep it growing so huge, that the cost of everything from bonds to mortgages is creeping up.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026

“They are the proverbial 800-pound gorilla in the room, and so it’s hard to move them out of the way,” said Trevor Walsh, a senior research analyst at Citizens.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026

Zoo has welcomed the birth of five great apes, including a gorilla, orangutan and three chimpanzees.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026

As Benchmark analyst Daniel Kurnos wrote, and Barron’s reported, at the time, “no one likes it when an 800-pound gorilla comes sniffing around.”

From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026

I felt like I’d just gotten the Heimlich maneuver from a gorilla.

From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan

That was one of the best Christmases I’ve ever had, spending Christmas with the gorillas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

Taylor-Joy, who splits time between London and Los Angeles with her American musician husband, Malcolm McRae, talked about overcoming insomnia, greeting gorillas and meditating.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

The sample included gorillas, orangutans, macaques, colobus monkeys, fossil apes and more.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 8, 2026

Attenborough's natural history series, such as "Life on Earth", in which he had a famous encounter with mountain gorillas in Rwanda, have brought the most remote corners of the planet into living rooms worldwide.

From Barron's ● May 6, 2026

Most of the cages were patches of dirt surrounded by iron bars, with forlorn gorillas or restless bears or irritable monkeys or anxious gazelles huddled in the corners.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls




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