Meaning & use
leviathan
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Something of enormous size and power, especially a large sea creature or an overwhelming organization.
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The oil tanker moved through the harbor like a leviathan.
Critics described the new agency as a bureaucratic leviathan.
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Leviathan originates from a biblical sea monster and is now used as a general word for anything immense and formidable, often to describe institutions or machines.
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