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mammoth

[mam-uhth] / ˈmæm əθ /


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The Criterion Collection’s mammoth set of the director’s 13 features captures a master of American cinema and his singular stories of men caught up in systems bigger than themselves.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

"It's a mammoth game," said BBC Sport football expert Chris Sutton.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

At great peril they sometimes hunt the mammoth for its meat and its large bones and tusks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

That’s because the looming mammoth IPOs of Anthropic, OpenAI, and others, may coincide with a calendar-based mutual fund tax strategy to encourage additional selling of poor performers.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 7, 2026

The smiling Wally the Wooly mammoth, Hypacrosauras, and dodo bird on the front of his sweatshirt are faded.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

In ancient California, they are believed to have existed alongside other extinct native species, including bison-sized Jefferson’s ground sloths, Columbian mammoths and western camels.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026

Sora transfixed the tech world by creating seemingly realistic videos of everything from woolly mammoths trekking across a snowy field to a stylish woman walking down a Tokyo street filled with glowing neon signs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026

They also compared the bone of modern elephants and steppe mammoths to determine which animal it came from.

From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026

But as the climate warmed, the woolly mammoths gradually vanished, with the last small herds surviving on remote Arctic islands until just 4,000 years ago.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 15, 2025

If things continue at the present pace, it is likely that whales, sharks, tuna and dolphins will follow the diprotodons, ground sloths and mammoths to oblivion.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari


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