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Noun
This cultural leviathan was launched by the discovery that these ridiculous comic-book figures, generations old, could now land only if treated seriously, with sombre backstories and true stakes. Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024 Elon Musk posted a photo on X of a large section of the Super Heavy booster being raised from the Gulf of Mexico, appearing like a twisted mythological Kraken or leviathan. Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 27 Sep. 2024 There, the company built a leviathan steel mill and an accompanying town named after its founding chairman, Elbert Henry Gary. Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 July 2024 Not only do old plastic bottles provide better grist for the production of new plastic bottles—a fact that the soda industry is increasingly keen to take advantage of—but the fashion industry also needs to wrestle with its own leviathan end-of-life problem. Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019 See all Example Sentences for leviathan 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for leviathan
Adjective
  • Parson turned his corner lot into a showcase of creativity, beginning with a giant cutout of Bigfoot.
    Tammy Ljungblad, Kansas City Star, 25 Jan. 2025
  • Those are giant movies, so there’s a lot of expectations and there’s a lot of money.
    J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 25 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The Campbells have been known to just sit on a terrace with a local beer keeping a look-out for those whales while giant icebergs float past.
    Roger Sands, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025
  • In recent years, large numbers of whales have washed ashore up and down the East Coast, including in New Jersey and Massachusetts.
    Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 16 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • There's a gigantic piece of pizza, a burger complete with lettuce and tomato slices and, of course, meatballs.
    Caroline Reid, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Tyson last fought a sanctioned fight in 2005 , losing a sixth-round TKO to gigantic Irishman Kevin McBride, a fighter of little renown beyond that win.
    Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 10 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Are we meant to sympathize with this creature as people scream in terror and call it a monster and attack it and scream for it to be shot?
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Set in a new location with new monsters, Wilds introduces a new type of mount, new monsters, an improved wound system, focus mode, and a new tool called the hook slinger.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 18 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The vast majority of Redditors sided with the teenager, with many saying that asking someone to accommodate house guests during a visit is okay — but not at the cost of basic essentials such as warmth.
    Toria Sheffield, People.com, 18 Jan. 2025
  • But the vast majority of the remaining defensive possessions were troubling for a team supposedly tailor-made to stop these very problems in their tracks.
    Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 18 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • One of the favorites is the playable lineages based on dinosaur families.
    Rob Wieland, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
  • For example, Joslin said an upcoming dinosaur program will be presented by MC Rose, a naturalist with a geology degree.
    Debra Skodack, Kansas City Star, 17 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Don Lemon is predicting a major comeback for Matt Lauer, eight years after the former news anchor's colossal fall from grace.
    Shania Russell, EW.com, 23 Jan. 2025
  • The colossal ice mass, currently 173 miles away, is spinning northward from Antarctica and could potentially ground itself against the island.
    John Yoo and John Shu, Newsweek, 23 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Per the reports, the mammoth is now being studied at Lazarev Mammoth Museum Laboratory, which specializes in studying mammoths and their Ice Age environment and is located at the North-Eastern Federal University (NEFU) in Yakutsk.
    Abigail Adams, People.com, 24 Dec. 2024
  • The mammoth is said to measure in at 4 feet tall and less than 6.6 feet long.
    Abigail Adams, People.com, 24 Dec. 2024

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