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- noun Something or someone of very large
stature ,greatness , orgodliness .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Netflix, the Blockbuster-buster and mail-order DVD titan, is now calling itself a full-fledged Internet company and says it may begin to offer online-only video-streaming subscriptions this year.
Netflix moves beyond DVD, tangles with ISPs on net neutrality Cecilia Kang 2010
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Vast values for international banking developed, including the "titan" - a £100million individual note used by the Bank of England for accounting purposes.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Vast values for international banking developed, including the "titan" - a £100million individual note used by the Bank of England for accounting purposes.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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The cosmetics titan is a crucial figure in the mayor’s quest to stay in office beyond the end of his second term next year.
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The cosmetics titan is a crucial figure in the mayor’s quest to stay in office beyond the end of his second term next year.
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This is significant because the social networking titan, which is breaking nearly every metric on the Web time spent, traffic, news dissemination, display ads could capture part of the market for a massively important app for desktop and mobile devices, one currently dominated by Google and Microsoft.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announces new email, messaging system Washington Post Staff 2010
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This is significant because the social networking titan, which is breaking nearly every metric on the Web time spent, traffic, news dissemination, display ads could capture part of the market for a massively important app for desktop and mobile devices, one currently dominated by Google and Microsoft.
Week ahead: Facebook mail? TV retransmisssion fees Cecilia Kang 2010
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Interestingly enough, back in November, I interviewed spoken word titan-activist and IFC talk show host Henry Rollins about Prop 8.
Greg Archer: Celebs and Other Opponents of Prop 8 Take to the Streets. But Is it Enough? 2009
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He has sought to turn the company into a global titan, which is what led him to push for the acquisition of the Norilsk stake earlier this year.
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The flower, called a titan arums or “corpse flower,” apparently has a terrible smell - hence the name?
Links by the bushel! 2005
bilby commented on the word titan
A banknote worth one hundred million British pounds. Explanation here.
January 26, 2013