behemoths

noun

plural of behemoth
as in giants
something that is unusually large and powerful the newest SUV is a gas-guzzling behemoth that doesn't even fit in a standard parking space

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Recent Examples of behemoths While invisible themselves, these cosmic behemoths reveal their presence by bending the light of nearby objects, and the Black Hole Hunters project is searching for one specific manifestation of this effect. — Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 18 Oct. 2026 Prior to Bending Spoons' recent jump into enterprise software, some of the leading acquirers in the space over the past decade were private equity behemoths Thoma Bravo and Vista Equity Partners. — Cj Haddad, CNBC, 17 Oct. 2026 Kroger has also felt pressure from fast-growing discount chains like Aldi and Lidl and online behemoths like Amazon. — ABC News, 13 Oct. 2026 Integrating two behemoths, paying down more than $80 billion in debt, and transforming the company into a tech-entertainment hybrid in the process. — Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 6 Oct. 2026 Major indexes shifted lower after a quiet morning as rising bond yields undercut much of the heavy lifting being done by several technology behemoths. — Damian J. Troise, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2026 Two sets of Brooks River behemoths duke it out, including last year’s champion, Bear #32 (Chunk). — Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 25 Sep. 2026 The four experts each have ties to academia, tech behemoths like Google and X, and the Obama and Biden administrations. — Lia Russell, Sacbee.com, 23 Sep. 2026 Paramount has long positioned the merger as a way to compete more effectively with streaming behemoths like Netflix and Disney+, which boast giant digital libraries full of attractive IP. — Liam Reilly, CNN Money, 22 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for behemoths
  1. giants
  2. whales
  3. dinosaurs
  4. monsters
  5. titans
  6. mammoths
Noun
  • Shapiro emphasized more than once that media giants courting audiences need to think in terms of generations and affinity groups, not the age and gender demos of yore.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Bumper earnings from bellwether tech giants Anthropic and TSMC did little to assuage a market that has turned bearish on the AI trade, sending stocks plummeting.
    — Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of giants
Noun
  • Even in the deep ocean, which is filled with alien-like creatures, the whales almost feel like a master alien.
    — Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2026
  • The Marine Mammal Center cautions against getting too close to sea lions and whales, for everyone’s safety.
    — Anne Ewbank, Sacbee.com, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of whales
Noun
  • Instead of young dinosaurs, these were actually adult examples of an entirely separate species now known as Nanotyrannus lancensis.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 15 Oct. 2026
  • The results were compared with the skulls of other two-legged meat-eating dinosaurs, such as tyrannosaurs, spinosaurs and raptors.
    — Archie Clarke, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of dinosaurs
Noun
  • Yet the greatest of these monsters is Poseidon himself, the great disruptor, the earth-shaker and master of the stormy seas.
    — Jeff DeGraff, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2026
  • First, as medical courier Bryan Hodukavich in Resident Evil, he was forced to contend with an onslaught of mutant zombie monsters.
    — Megan McCluskey, Time, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of monsters
Noun
  • The score for the forthcoming Grand Theft Auto VI will feature an original score by French electronic titans Justice.
    — Katie Bain, Billboard, 15 Oct. 2026
  • At the time, the industry was on a major streaming binge, and the company had two titans at the helm in co-founders Kevin Mayer and Tom Staggs.
    — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of titans
Noun
  • 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.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026
  • See fossils of the 14-foot, 20,000-pound mammoths that used to roam around Texas.
    — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of mammoths

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“Behemoths.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/behemoths. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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