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Figuratively, an “Amazon” is a large, strong, aggressive woman.
The Amazon River of South America was so named because tribes of women warriors were believed to live along its banks.
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Rest assured, the next generation of Amazons will go public after they get interesting.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
“These guys are spending a ton of money creating these tools in the first place—so the Microsoft, Amazons, Googles,” he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 25, 2026
The roots of the Greek presence in the Black Sea are steeped in myth: from the journey of Jason and the Argonauts to Colchis, to the Amazons.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 2, 2024
They want these people to sit down with them — the big guns, the Hulus and the Netflixes and the Amazons.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2023
Otrera looked at the assembled Amazons, who were standing very still, as if they’d found themselves in a pit with two wild tigers.
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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