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mastodon

[mas-tuh-don] / ˈmæs təˌdɒn /
NOUN
elephant
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“The real question is what’s going to happen, because we’ll now have a mastodon - a monster - that will be increasingly too big to fail,” said Marc Chesney, a finance professor at the University of Zurich.

From Washington Times

“The real question is what’s going to happen, because we’ll now have a mastodon — a monster — that will be increasingly too big to fail,” said Marc Chesney, a finance professor at the University of Zurich.

From Seattle Times

The BBC has been unable to post links to the most popular mastodon.social server, as well as more than 10 others - including a server for journalists and another for people in the UK.

From BBC

Perhaps the most surprising discovery was the mastodon, a hairy relative of the elephant that has long been associated with boreal forests in North America.

From Washington Post

Ancient DNA: The Arctic was once a lush forest of birch trees, mastodons and hares.

From New York Times