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  • noun Plural form of behemoth.

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Examples

  • When every other industry is seeing a slowdown, cost-cutting and retrenchment, the gaming "behemoths" - Sony Ericsson, Zapak. com and Microsoft Xbox 360 have joined hands.

    www.indiantelevision.com 2009

  • When every other industry is seeing a slowdown, cost-cutting and retrenchment, the gaming "behemoths" - Sony Ericsson, Zapak. com and Microsoft Xbox 360 have joined hands.

    www.indiantelevision.com 2009

  • I’m now having trouble setting up a GAfYD email address as an alternative email on my PayPal account – whether it’s PayPal or Google that’s at fault I’m not sure as trying to get an answer out of either of these behemoths is not the easiest thing in the world (unlike the Zoho folks who are most helpful and approachable).

    Google Docs ties with your domain « Squash 2007

  • In an almost-literal sense, they anti-trust American consumers to turn down bland crap from entitled behemoths, and instead create marvelous, idiosyncratic workarounds to industry mediocrity and idiotic government restrictions.

    Reason Magazine 2010

  • In an almost-literal sense, they anti-trust American consumers to turn down bland crap from entitled behemoths, and instead create marvelous, idiosyncratic workarounds to industry mediocrity and idiotic government restrictions.

    Reason Magazine 2010

  • In the current debate, the big composites are being called, variously, "behemoths" or "universal" banks, depending on which side of the argument you are on.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2011

  • Shelby also doesn't reveal that many of the cars those manufacturers make in Alabama, without unions, are precisely the kind of behemoths critics attack Detroit for making -- only these have foreign nameplates: M-Class SUV, GL-Class SUV (a new model), Pilot SUV, Santa Fe SUV, plus engines for Tacoma and Tundra pick-ups and Sequoia SUVs.

    Hullabaloo 2008

  • When Microsoft reached its apex in terms of public perception and industry respect, with the launch of Windows 95, the culture inside the company still largely saw themselves as upstarts against old, proprietary behemoths.

    Google's Microsoft Moment - Anil Dash 2009

  • When Microsoft reached its apex in terms of public perception and industry respect, with the launch of Windows 95, the culture inside the company still largely saw themselves as upstarts against old, proprietary behemoths.

    Anil Dash 2009

  • Reuters If the deal had gone ahead, Sprint would have been a distant No. 3 battling two behemoths.

    Sprint Remains in Wireless Race Martin Peers 2011

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  • Instead, the issue on the table is whether the behemoths we answer to will be purely public or public-private partnerships.

    September 14, 2010

  • Which behemoths do you answer to?

    September 14, 2010