colossus

Example Sentences

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The U.S. bestrode the world like a colossus, and manufacturing was central to our dominance.

From The Wall Street Journal

"The world has lost a giant. A colossus of African music," a statement shared on his official page said.

From Barron's

Now, he will oversee all of Disney and its 230,000 workforce as the entertainment colossus tries to soar in the streaming age amid the erosion of the company’s once mighty legacy cable TV business.

From Los Angeles Times

For most of his life, Michelangelo’s 16th-century biographer Ascanio Condivi tells us, the artist aspired to carve a colossus out of a coastal mountain, a figure visible from ships at sea.

From The Wall Street Journal

But that didn’t guarantee its triumph as a financial and cultural colossus.

From The Wall Street Journal