leviathan

Once the leviathan of profit for companies like Johnson & Johnson and Boston Scientific, pelvic mesh was now the white whale of liability for mass tort plaintiffs’ attorneys.

From Slate ● Jan. 13, 2026

As Ms. Aikin shows, in many ways the modern governmental leviathan would not be possible without the manifold collections and reference services of the Library of Congress.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 25, 2025

A stiff primary challenge from the liberal leviathan, Massachusetts Sen. Edward M. Kennedy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2024

But — and this is one leviathan of a “but” — something else is starting to emerge in the polling.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 9, 2024

Somewhere beyond that the groaning leviathan that is Zollverein.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

Dinios Kol of the Khanum Empire’s justice department is summoned to investigate the murder of a treasury officer in Yarrowdale, where the dead bodies of leviathans are processed into the components of powerful magic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025

In his 1851 novel Moby Dick, Herman Melville describes right whales as “the most venerable of the leviathans, being the one first regularly hunted by man.”

From National Geographic ● Jan. 25, 2024

Pushing further back, Mota’s most recent novel, “El Foso de Mabuya,” or “Mabuya’s Tomb,” envisions leviathans destroying Christopher Columbus’s expedition before it arrives in the Americas and paints the continents as united under Indigenous peoples.

From New York Times ● Jun. 10, 2023

Though these leviathans are often loners, they can live for more than 200 years, making their longevity more than double that of more social species such as sperm and humpback whales.

From Scientific American ● Jan. 31, 2023

But such leviathans appeared only late in antiquity, and were exceptional.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro