juggernaut

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• For it is my duty to warn you, and my tongue falters as I tell it... that this girl, this child, the native of a Christian land... no better than many a little heathen that says its prayers... to Brahma and kneels before Juggernaut.

  Jane Eyre (1943)

• They had gone down to bitter defeat—often clawing and defiant to the end, but still defeat—before the juggernaut of the People's Republic, and again, so what?

  Fiction book (2001)

• "The wheels of the Juggernaut can be turned aside," I said reverently, "and there is hope."

  Fiction book (2001)

• Juggernaut was asked if they could make a snowman that they could customize.

  Blog text (5)

• The cycles of time, like the wheels of the ancient Juggernaut, ruthlessly grind us to our destruction, and there is no hope!

  Fiction book (2001)

• She hurries her son through the commercial juggernaut, continuing their lively intellectual conversation when something stops her.

  Fiction book (2000)

• Only the telemetry would confirm that ignition had started and that Kali was no longer an implacable juggernaut, wholly beyond the control of humanity.

  Fiction book (1992)

• Then it seemed as though something snapped in my brain, and I heard my voice as though it were another's coming from a distance: "The Juggernaut, Fate, grinds mortals beneath its wheels, and there is no hope."

  Fiction book (2001)

• The ancient procession featured a magnificent juggernaut adorned with bright colors and intricate carvings.

• As the crowd gathered, the towering juggernaut became the focal point of the celebration, symbolizing devotion and tradition.

Synonyms

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idol

vsjuggernaut

65 4.1

An image of a god that people worship

is the large crude historical image once carried in Puri processions

Surface Forms

Etymology