colossus
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When the chips were down he was a colossus for Celtic, driven, focused, as hungry as anybody to get his team over the line and more influential than most in ensuring it happened.
From BBC • May 23, 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
During his tenure, Hastings oversaw the substantial growth of the streaming colossus.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026
McCormick’s MKC -5.99%decrease; red down pointing triangle journey to a $65 billion food colossus started in a Baltimore cellar in 1889.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026
The colossus of Wagner is an inescapable reality of late-nineteenth- century music, indeed of recent Western civilisation.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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