colossus

Example Sentences

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He's been a total colossus in this fixture in the past and he was again on Saturday.

From BBC • Mar. 14, 2026

Apple played a major role building Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing into the colossus of the chip industry by committing to make its latest iPhone chips in the company’s Taiwan plants.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 1, 2026

The U.S. bestrode the world like a colossus, and manufacturing was central to our dominance.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026

Now, he will oversee all of Disney and its 230,000 workforce as the entertainment colossus tries to soar in the streaming age amid the erosion of the company’s once mighty legacy cable TV business.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2026

Traditional histories like to equate Beethoven, the colossus of music in the early 1800s, with his contemporary Napoleon Bonaparte, revolutionary-turned-Emperor and serial military adventurer.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall