colossus

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Nexstar has built itself into a colossus through a series of acquisitions, including its $6.2-billion takeover of Tribune Broadcasting, the longtime owner of KTLA, in 2019 — during the first Trump term.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026

McCormick’s MKC -5.99%decrease; red down pointing triangle journey to a $65 billion food colossus started in a Baltimore cellar in 1889.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

France head coach Fabien Galthie hailed colossus lock Emmanuel Meafou after his man-of-the-match performance in Sunday's 33-8 Six Nations victory over Italy.

From Barron's • Feb. 22, 2026

Instead, it points to a quieter colossus: households.

From BBC • Feb. 19, 2026

In Egypt, a towering colossus, immobile, beyond the power of the imagination to endow with movement, as fixed in the stone as the tremendous temple columns, a representation of the human shape deliberately made unhuman.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton