leviathan
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It would be nice to see them begin to extricate the church from the federal leviathan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
What an extraordinary signing the Japanese leviathan has been, what a goals haul, what joy he has sparked among the Celtic support.
From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2023
Plagiarism-detection leviathan Turnitin is touting its own “A.I.” solutions to confront the burgeoning issue.
From Slate ● Feb. 3, 2023
Commissioner Roger Goodell’s NFL is an economic leviathan, by far the most popular sports league in the United States.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2023
“Forgive me, but from the long look on your face, I thought you had discovered a leviathan in the plumbing.”
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
Dinios Kol of the Khanum Empire’s justice department is summoned to investigate the murder of a treasury officer in Yarrowdale, where the dead bodies of leviathans are processed into the components of powerful magic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
In 2020, a team of marine biologists and computer scientists joined forces to analyze the click-clacking songs of sperm whales, the gray, block-shaped leviathans that swim in most of the world’s oceans.
From New York Times ● May 7, 2024
In his 1851 novel Moby Dick, Herman Melville describes right whales as “the most venerable of the leviathans, being the one first regularly hunted by man.”
From National Geographic ● Jan. 25, 2024
Though these leviathans are often loners, they can live for more than 200 years, making their longevity more than double that of more social species such as sperm and humpback whales.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 31, 2023
But such leviathans appeared only late in antiquity, and were exceptional.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
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