Meaning & use

juggernauts

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Massive, unstoppable forces, organizations, or vehicles that overwhelm everything in their path.

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The company grew into one of the tech industry's juggernauts.

Convoys of juggernauts rumbled down the motorway through the night.

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From 'Jagannath,' a Hindu deity whose festival cart was the source of exaggerated colonial-era tales of devotees crushed beneath its wheels.

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