amazon

noun

Definition of amazonnext
as in giant

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  1. giant
  2. elephant
  3. colossus
  4. whale
  5. behemoth
  6. mammoth
  7. jumbo
  8. dinosaur
Noun
  • The coffee giant hopes to reclaim its coffeehouse crown by focusing on speed, service, and operational efficiency.
    Francisco Velasquez, Quartz, 15 Nov. 2024
  • Then there was Prime Video, the streaming arm of the tech giant Amazon, which produced a ten-hour pop-up election-cast extravaganza pitched as a more streamlined alternative to its rivals and anchored by NBC émigré Brian Williams.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2024
Definition of giant
Noun
  • Nile crocodiles sun themselves on the river banks, while pods of hippos and herds of elephants roam through the waters.
    Shaun Stanley, Travel + Leisure, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Most of the trip was spent outside the resort, literally in the middle of the jungle, with leopards and elephants roaming around at night.
    Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune Europe, 15 Oct. 2024
Definition of elephant
Noun
  • But the security advisory published on Nov. 01 by authentication colossus Okta did just that, and then some.
    Davey Winder, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024
  • From a realist perspective, the prospect of China as an economic colossus was a nightmare.
    John Mearsheimer, Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2021
Definition of colossus
Noun
  • Getting to the cream Several animals that live in groups learn from one another, including elephants, whales, and some primates.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 14 Nov. 2024
  • Sightings might include sea-life such as whales and dolphins, with an uptick in whale sighting now that whale migration season has begun in early November.
    Margaux Lushing, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of whale
Noun
  • There are specters, too: Here’s the late Colin De Land and Pat Hearn, who helped start the behemoth that grew into the Armory Show.
    Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2024
  • Iger, who has been with the media behemoth for four decades, served as its CEO from 2005 to 2020.
    Bruce Gil, Quartz, 12 Nov. 2024
Definition of behemoth
Noun
  • The joke of Strings’s mammoth, self-sabotaging ego, however, can only be sustained for so long, even by very appealing actors.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2024
  • The event, according to research, may have triggered a 1000-year-long ice age, wiping out many large animals, including mammoths, and dramatically marking the growth of human civilization.
    Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
Definition of mammoth
Noun
  • That’s a continuation, albeit a slowdown, of its jumbo, 50-basis-point reduction to the benchmark rate; its first cut in more than four years at the FOMC’s September meeting.
    Rocio Fabbro, Quartz, 7 Nov. 2024
  • That certainly was the case as markets anticipated the start of the U.S. Federal Reserve’s easing cycle, which kicked off with a jumbo cut last month .
    Weizhen Tan,Katrina Bishop, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2024
Definition of jumbo
Noun
  • The college essay is going the way of the dinosaurs as more teachers give up on the ability to tell whether their students are writing their papers themselves.
    Nir Eisikovits, Discover Magazine, 14 Nov. 2024
  • The devastation that wiped out the dinosaurs created ideal conditions for various fungi to thrive, and ants actually began to cultivate fungi.
    Popular Science Staff, Popular Science, 6 Nov. 2024
Definition of dinosaur
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