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mammoth

[mam-uhth] / ˈmæm əθ /


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"It's a mammoth game," said BBC Sport football expert Chris Sutton.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

SpaceX’s half-billion-dollar fee pool is expected to be a mere appetizer as Anthropic and OpenAI prepare to launch their own mammoth IPOs in the coming months.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026

With Thursday’s sign-off by the California Public Utilities Commission, the mammoth merger is expected to close next week.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

Sunrisers have boasted one of the most powerful top orders in the tournament but struggled under the pressure of a mammoth run chase and they finished 166-7.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

On Sunday we went out for brunch at one of those mammoth places where the menu is small and the portions are large, and every senior citizen leaves with a Styrofoam box containing leftovers.

From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg

Sora transfixed the tech world by creating seemingly realistic videos of everything from woolly mammoths trekking across a snowy field to a stylish woman walking down a Tokyo street filled with glowing neon signs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026

They also compared the bone of modern elephants and steppe mammoths to determine which animal it came from.

From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026

But as the climate warmed, the woolly mammoths gradually vanished, with the last small herds surviving on remote Arctic islands until just 4,000 years ago.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 15, 2025

It peers across the street at the bubbling La Brea Tar Pits with their fiber-glass mammoths and saber-tooth cats.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2025

“But the rocks are full of the bones of extinct animals— mammoths and mastodons and enormous reptiles which lived here long before man was ever heard of.”

From "1984" by George Orwell




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