colossus
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Weak domestic demand and huge government production incentives have created an industrial colossus that exports an estimated $2 trillion more manufactured goods than it imports.
From Barron's • May 14, 2026
Leo Tolstoy’s 1869 colossus clocks in at more than 1,200 pages in most English-language editions.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
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
He's been a total colossus in this fixture in the past and he was again on Saturday.
From BBC • Mar. 14, 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
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