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Titans
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Titans as in:  the mythological Titan, Atlas

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In Greek mythology, the Olympians defeated the Titans in a ten-year war.
Titans = Greek mythology:  the giant-sized gods who ruled the Earth until overthrown by Zeus
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    In Greek mythology, the Titans ruled during the legendary Golden Age.
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    The truce between the gods held only because Titans and Olympians each kept to their sphere.  (source)
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    What is this Titan that has possession of me?  (source)
    Titan = Greek Mythology:  one of the giant-sized gods
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    The Pepsi bottle looked almost as big as the nosecone of a Titan-II rocket.†  (source)
    Titan = Greek Mythology: one of the giant-sized gods who ruled the Earth until overthrown by Zeus (also the name of Saturn's largest moon)
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    "—and so there was this big fight between the gods and the Titans," I continued, "and the gods won."  (source)
    Titans = Greek mythology: giants who ruled the Earth until overthrown by Zeus
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    Meanwhile, Samson strides from the arena like a titan.  (source)
    titan = Greek mythology: one the giant-sized gods who ruled the Earth until overthrown by Zeus
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    This man commands respect, even among titans.  (source)
    titans = Greek mythology: the giant-sized gods who ruled the Earth until overthrown by Zeus
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    In the afternoon they box up the equipment in Etienne's study, Madame and Papa unplugging radios and lowering them into crates, Marie-Laure sitting on the davenport listening to the sets go off one by one: the old Radiola Five; a G.M.R. Titan; a G.M.R. Orphee.†  (source)
    Titan = Greek Mythology: one of the giant-sized gods who ruled the Earth until overthrown by Zeus (also the name of Saturn's largest moon)
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    It was not about the planet but about the passing of the self-styled Titans called humans.†  (source)
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    Do not invoke the titan lord's name, Percy.  (source)
    titan = Greek mythology: of the giant-sized gods who ruled the Earth until overthrown by Zeus
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    The arrow was dipped in the blood of a Titan, Scathach said quietly, her voice carrying on the still air.†  (source)
    Titan = Greek Mythology: one of the giant-sized gods who ruled the Earth until overthrown by Zeus (also the name of Saturn's largest moon)
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    CLASH OF THE TITANS.†  (source)
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    Do not think for a moment that the titan lord has forgotten you!  (source)
    titan = Greek mythology: of the giant-sized gods who ruled the Earth until overthrown by Zeus
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titan as in:  titan of industry

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    And so it was with these titans clashing.  (source)
    titans = powerful people
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    He crushed several dozen avatars (including a few of his own troops) under his mech's titanic feet as he lumbered toward us, each of his footfalls creating a small crater in the rocky surface.  (source)
    titanic = very large
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    Did you know that it was light that made Rockefeller into a titan?  (source)
    titan = extremely powerful person
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    It occurred to me as I saw these titans of my family that, for the first eleven or so years of my life, I saw them during happy times—family reunions and holidays or lazy summers and long weekends—and in the two most recent years I'd seen them only at funerals.  (source)
    titans = powerful people
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    "We need to be self-sufficient," I imagined Dad would say as he dragged the panels across his titanic house.  (source)
    titanic = very large
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    He felt like he was witnessing the clash of two philosophical titans ....an unsettling blur of opposing forces.†  (source)
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    When only two glowing tips remained above the horizon, Wang imagined them as the tips of the horns of a titanic bull rushing toward the sun.  (source)
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    I don't keep track of all those ancient monsters and dusty titans.†  (source)
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    At first, it appeared that both horses would run in the former, and Maryland geared up for the meeting of the two titans.†  (source)
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    The official occupancy of ten thousand fans will not be sufficient for the grand encounter of the little titans of the baseball world.†  (source)
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    This gave to the titans an advantage which the gods, in the next battle, were quick to perceive.†  (source)
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    Now he was in Europe, caught up in a surreal battle of ancient titans, packing a semiautomatic in his Harris tweed, and holding hands with a woman he had only just met.†  (source)
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    Two of these daughters, Diti and Aditi by name, had given birth respectively to the titans and the gods.†  (source)
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Titanic as in:  sinking of the Titanic

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The Titanic was thought to be unsinkable.
Titanic = large British passenger ship that hit an iceberg and sank -- killing about 1500 people in 1912
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    Those people were rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic and everyone knew it.  (source)
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    The tithes at Happy Jack are like first-class passengers on the Titanic.  (source)
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    She rarely cried she'd even laughed at the ending of Titanic so why was she crying now?  (source)
    Titanic = a movie about the large British passenger ship that hit an iceberg and sank -- killing about 1500 people in 1912
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    The deck of the Titanic was packed with people.  (source)
    Titanic = large British passenger ship that hit an iceberg and sank -- killing about 1500 people in 1912
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    We watched the Independence ceremonies from a giant rusty barge tied to the bank of the Congo River that was loaded with so many pushing, squirming people Mrs. Underdown said we'd probably all go down like the Titanic.  (source)
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    He was sunk into a bean-bag chair, scanning the room, gripping the sack of cookies as if it were a flotation device on the Titanic and the captain had just yelled, "Save the women and children first!"  (source)
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    Remember the Titanic.  (source)
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    They smell of stale bread, of stuffy living rooms crammed with dark titanic Breton furnishings.†  (source)
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    Prince William of England (duh) Leonardo in Titanic (As if!†  (source)
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    That summer, Titanic fever gripped Kabul.†  (source)
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    This is titanic.†  (source)
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    So was Captain Smith of the Titanic, Ryan thought.†  (source)
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    The Titanic made only one voyage, Mr. Torrance.†  (source)
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rare meaning

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    "And how do you like the Hall of the Sun, Lady Titans?" the girl across from me asks  (source)
    Titans = a name
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    In times of crisis, one turned to the relevant figures in the community—the legal authority, the moral pillar, the social arbiter, the financial titan, the elder statesman.†  (source)
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    Some weren't, just as not every business titan in the United States was born in the mid-i830s.†  (source)
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    By 2200 hours, we each wore whiskered titan-poly body armor.†  (source)
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    He was a free-spending global titan in his early fifties who seemed stronger every year, who threw his money and influence around without fear.†  (source)
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    Once, true, he had been a titan, but now, now What happens here that you aren't going to read is the six-page soliloquy from Inigo in which Morgenstern, through Inigo, reflects on the anguish of fleeting glory.†  (source)
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    The balloon, green as slime, printed with titan pictures of winged scorpions, ancient phoenixes, smokes, fires, clouded weathers, swung its wicker basket wheezing, down.†  (source)
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    The whole city is built in a lagoon on a hundred little islands, and they have a titan there, a stone man hundreds of feet high.†  (source)
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    Ahead of them all, Woolf stood like a titan in the irons.†  (source)
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    The great Bird dived upon the burning city, like a titan phoenix toward its flaming nest.†  (source)
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    Nonetheless, Sophie can tell that he is flattered beyond measure to be near the flesh of this titan, and his eagerness to please falls a hair short of the outright embarrassing.†  (source)
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    or Why may it be not even madness but saw)) despair in titan conflict with the lonely and firedoomed and indomitable iron spirit but no ogre, because it was dead, vanished, consumed somewhere inflame and sulphur-reek perhaps among the lonely craggy peaks of my childhood's solitary remembering—or forgetting I was that sun, who believed that he (after that evening in Judith's room) was not oblivious of me but only unconscious and receptive like the swamp freed pilgrim feeling earth and tasting sun and light again and aware of neither but only of darkness' and morass's lack—who did believe there was that magic in unkin blood which we call by the pallid name of love that could be, might be sun f†  (source)
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    In those times was accomplished the heavy titan-work, the massive establishment of the foundations of our human civilization.†  (source)
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