juggernaut
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9.1
- noun
- /ˈdʒʌɡərˌnɔt/
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- They've done a marvellous job I think in in restructuring that football club and made it a juggernaut and they're still building.
- an economic juggernaut
Like you compete with those juggernauts in the SEC.
- Like you compete with those juggernauts in the SEC.
- And now, well, now they are reaping the whirlwind as the German juggernaut advanced all through the East.
- Started Turning Point USA and now he's a juggernaut.
- And these guys, these these companies are just cash juggernauts.
- He calls them a grass roots juggernaut.
- But we have built that program into a juggernaut.
- They hadn't yet cemented themselves as like the blue sky juggernaut that they became.
- And I'm very I try to write as if like a verbal juggernaut.
- It's like getting into a burning juggernaut, right?
- You're constantly barely making it in here for this podcast, which, by the way, is a juggernaut.
- It's so easy to discount and devalue because of what we look like when we have our juggernauts.
- And so streaming took many, many, many more years to take off and become the, you know, the gargantuan thing the Juggernaut is today.
Examples
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We have built this program into a juggernaut.
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With its vast resources, the tech giant operates like a juggernaut in the industry, crushing smaller competitors.
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Despite that, they held off a juggernaut team until the last out of the last game.
Blog text (7) -
By 1994, Blockbuster had become an entertainment juggernaut.
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It's difficult to compete with the juggernauts in the gaming industry when it comes to impressive games.
Blog text (10) -
Trade did not significantly expand until the 1960s when Japan's export machine became a juggernaut.
Academic text (1991) -
Although the strikers have been extremely militant over the past weeks, they've not been able to stop the Stackwater juggernaut from breaking through the lines.
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Blockbuster became a cultural juggernaut in the 1990s, dominating the video rental market.
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The new policy proved to be a political juggernaut, sweeping aside all opposition in Congress.
Synonyms
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7.8
A very large and powerful thing, person, or group
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9.3
A very large and powerful thing, for example a company or ship
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6.4
A person or thing with great, unstoppable power like a storm
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5.4
A force that crushes anything in its path
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7.4
A very large and powerful person or company that beats others easily
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8.2
A person or thing that defeats others very easily and completely
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8.2
A very large and powerful company or group that dominates its field
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8.0
A person or thing that causes a lot of damage
A person or group much more powerful than others in an area
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Etymology
Juggernaut is now used to mean 'a massive, unstoppable force' and a helpful way to remember this is the giant festival chariot of Jagannath, which early visitors said crushed things in its path, so the word came to mean anything that overwhelms or crushes everything before it.