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colossus

[kuh-los-uhs] / kəˈlɒs əs /


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Leo Tolstoy’s 1869 colossus clocks in at more than 1,200 pages in most English-language editions.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

The social networking colossus raised its capital expenditures for this year to a range of $125 billion to $145 billion without laying out exactly how that investment would translate into profit.

From Barron's • Apr. 29, 2026

Nexstar has built itself into a colossus through a series of acquisitions, including its $6.2-billion takeover of Tribune Broadcasting, the longtime owner of KTLA, in 2019 — during the first Trump term.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026

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

From BBC • Mar. 14, 2026

They tell the story of the birth of science, of its infancy, and of its extraordinary transformation into the great colossus under whose shadow we all now live.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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