colossus
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Honda grew into a worldwide automotive colossus from humble roots.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
Weak domestic demand and huge government production incentives have created an industrial colossus that exports an estimated $2 trillion more manufactured goods than it imports.
From Barron's • May 14, 2026
Yet while the structure is designed to be undetectable from the inside, it’s a full-blown metallic colossus on the outside — visible from the surrounding L.A. freeways.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026
It’s a remake that resembles another modern college sports colossus: Indiana football.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026
But Diderot’s name for this newly born colossus is not ‘Science’, as we might expect.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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