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leviathanle‧vi‧a‧than /lɪˈvaɪəθən/ noun [countable] literary  leviathanOrigin: 1300-1400 Leviathan a very large sea animal in the Bible, from Late Latin, from Hebrew liwyathan - Chops' girlfriend continues watching the approaching doom of the churning waves in front of the leviathan.
- He said oil slicks from the stricken leviathan still sometimes marred the bay.
- It is the vast labor pool that global capitalism has tapped into that is the new leviathan.
- Moving underneath them, the whale then rises, gulping them down in one leviathan mouthful.
- The busy galleries were attached to the ribs of the leviathan.
- The Governor's sanctum was a leviathan suffused with the same dreary red light.
- The justice game was never designed to be played between human beings and these corporate leviathans.
- What am I that I should assay to hood the nose of this leviathan!
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