colossus

Only then do we see this dark colossus for the slight creature he always was.

From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026

"He was a colossus in UTV," Adrian said.

From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026

He was, Mr. Vague writes, “a colossus presiding over the financial landscape of the new republic.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

Paramount is the smallest of the major media companies and acquiring Warner Bros. is key to David Ellison’s ambitions to build a new Hollywood colossus.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

He became a huge colossus; his head touched the skies, his feet were lost in the abyss, and his arms stretched from one pole to the other.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

While those football colossi dreamed of taking over the U.S. market, American sports owners took over the powerhouses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

His analysis focused on Shadow of the Colossus, which features a wanderer who travels on horseback to defeat giant beasts known as colossi.

From Salon ● Nov. 13, 2021

The newly unearthed city is located between the temple of King Rameses III and the colossi of Amenhotep III on the west bank of the Nile River in Luxor.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 9, 2021

These glitz-free, idiomatic churches of sweat and sparring - where age-old ring knowledge nurtured colossi such as Sugar Ray Robinson, Jake LaMotta and Riddick Bowe - were already on shaky legs prior to lockdown.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2020

Don't be ungrateful to your real colossi; you have cashiered your Haynaus and your Radetzkys too precipitately.

From Napoleon the Little by Victor Hugo

We had been impressed with brief stays in Rochester and Buffalo, two one-time commercial colossuses.

From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2020

Investors are betting, in part, that the Covid-19 crisis accelerates the already growing power of America’s corporate colossuses.

From New York Times ● Apr. 28, 2020

Alisson and Van Dijk are two colossuses – big, confident people.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 14, 2020

But what makes the “Transformers” movies different from other blockbuster colossuses is Bay.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 20, 2017

The guards of the Legion galloped about at random; the people climbed upon the houses, the terraces, the shoulders of the colossuses, and the masts of the ships.

From Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert