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colossus

[kuh-los-uhs] / kəˈlɒs əs /


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Gen. Rob Bonta and 11 other state attorneys general who initially fought the formation of a new Hollywood colossus.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

Only then do we see this dark colossus for the slight creature he always was.

From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026

"He was a colossus in UTV," Adrian said.

From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026

He was, Mr. Vague writes, “a colossus presiding over the financial landscape of the new republic.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

Meir Katz, a colossus, wore a child’s pants, and Stern, a skinny little fellow, was floundering in a huge jacket.

From "Night" by Elie Wiesel

While those football colossi dreamed of taking over the U.S. market, American sports owners took over the powerhouses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

Now, at least a half-dozen factories in Tunisia produce cans of tuna ranging in size from hockey pucks to 11-pound colossi.

From New York Times ● Jul. 3, 2023

His analysis focused on Shadow of the Colossus, which features a wanderer who travels on horseback to defeat giant beasts known as colossi.

From Salon ● Nov. 13, 2021

The newly unearthed city is located between the temple of King Rameses III and the colossi of Amenhotep III on the west bank of the Nile River in Luxor.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 9, 2021

So he wandered through the vast courts, down the avenues of giant pillars, passed under the mighty pylons, between the lofty monolithic obelisks and the colossi which gazed upon him with their great, frightened eyes.

From The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5 The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt by Frederick C. de (Frederick Caesar de) Sumichrast

We had been impressed with brief stays in Rochester and Buffalo, two one-time commercial colossuses.

From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2020

Investors are betting, in part, that the Covid-19 crisis accelerates the already growing power of America’s corporate colossuses.

From New York Times ● Apr. 28, 2020

Alisson and Van Dijk are two colossuses – big, confident people.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 14, 2020

But what makes the “Transformers” movies different from other blockbuster colossuses is Bay.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 20, 2017

What is to resist the combined power of these two colossuses unless the united weight and the united bulk of Germany hinders their embrace?

From Louisa of Prussia and Her Times by L. (Luise) Mühlbach




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