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elephant

noun as in large mammal

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A natural-gas turbine can be bigger than a bus and as heavy, give or take, as a herd of elephants.

Zimbabwean opposition lawmaker Desire Moyo has died after the vehicle he was travelling in hit an elephant, local media report.

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Once I decided on indexes, the elephant in the room was allocation.

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“I thought I was having a stroke, like an elephant was on my head,” Michaelis said from her garden, while she slowly made her way through a tomato and mozzarella salad her husband had prepared.

“This will turn into a total white elephant,” said Capellán, president of the industrial park near the Dominican Republic.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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