colossus
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When the chips were down he was a colossus for Celtic, driven, focused, as hungry as anybody to get his team over the line and more influential than most in ensuring it happened.
From BBC • May 23, 2026
The e-commerce and cloud computing colossus noted that the investment builds on $8 billion it had already invested in Anthropic, according to the companies.
From Barron's • Apr. 21, 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
Early fears that the fast-food colossus would be overly brand conscious and dictate content were allayed.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2026
The colossus of Wagner is an inescapable reality of late-nineteenth- century music, indeed of recent Western civilisation.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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