gorilla
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But it’s not an easy decision, Suk added, because Meta “is the 800-pound gorilla in the room” when it comes to online advertising.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 16, 2026
By every account this risk is greater for Netflix, which is already the 900-pound gorilla of streaming.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 2026
Thanks to anti-poaching patrols and community programmes - supported by the European Union and Unesco - mountain gorilla numbers in Virunga have slowly increased over the past decade.
From BBC • Jan. 7, 2026
But as Benchmark analyst Daniel Kurnos says: “No one likes it when an 800-pound gorilla comes sniffing around.”
From Barron's • Jan. 1, 2026
“Once upon a time,” Stella begins, “there was a human boy. He was visiting a gorilla family at a place called a zoo.”
From "The One and Only Ivan" by Katherine Applegate
