leviathan
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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
Here is Melville’s literary leviathan fantastically adorned with more than 270 of Kent’s black-and-white illustrations, many of them a full page in size.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026
CEO Kim Bayley said gaming "continued to show its ability to connect with people" last year, and despite the modest growth the industry "remains a leviathan".
From BBC • Jan. 9, 2024
Commissioner Roger Goodell’s NFL is an economic leviathan, by far the most popular sports league in the United States.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 8, 2023
It had moved in the midnight waters of space like a pale sea leviathan; it had passed the ancient moon and thrown itself onward into one nothingness following another.
From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury
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