leviathan
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It expanded into a $1.8 trillion leviathan through a series of big-ticket mergers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 6, 2025
A stiff primary challenge from the liberal leviathan, Massachusetts Sen. Edward M. Kennedy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2024
What an extraordinary signing the Japanese leviathan has been, what a goals haul, what joy he has sparked among the Celtic support.
From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2023
Plagiarism-detection leviathan Turnitin is touting its own “A.I.” solutions to confront the burgeoning issue.
From Slate ● Feb. 3, 2023
Behind the dais a kraken and grey leviathan were locked in battle beneath the painted waves.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
Jerry Jones and Robert Kraft are the octogenarian owners, respectively, of the Dallas Cowboys and the New England Patriots; both built leviathans for football stadiums while finding creative ways to expand the NFL brand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 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
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