leviathan

While the quartet — the first metal band to perform at Sphere — tore through the instrumental deep cut “The Call of Ktulu,” that drippy leviathan swatted at life-sized fighter jets on the screen.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art—George Lucas and Mellody Hobson’s biomorphic leviathan hovering over Exposition Park like an idling spaceship—has been christened by Mr. Lucas as “a temple to the people’s art.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

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

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

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 9, 2024

But from this vantage point she saw the wall had been crafted in the shape of a leviathan, a giant ice dragon circling the island and swallowing its own tail.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

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 2020, a team of marine biologists and computer scientists joined forces to analyze the click-clacking songs of sperm whales, the gray, block-shaped leviathans that swim in most of the world’s oceans.

From New York Times ● May 7, 2024

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

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