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Colossuses such as GE and Cisco have led the way with "procurement marketplaces": in-house purchasing systems to streamline transactions with their suppliers.

From Time Magazine Archive

"The two British Colossuses, The Tribune says, opened fire with their 300 five-millimetres guns."

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, September 19, 1917 by Various

That power, Susan, thinks proper to claim your unworthy and enamored swain as one of the brightest Colossuses of her future glory.

From Going to Maynooth Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by Carleton, William