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Why Dictionary.com chose gleam
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- From Old English (450–1150) glǣm.
- Related to other words meaning “sight” or “light,” such as glimmer, glimpse, and glint.
EXAMPLES OF GLEAM
- The icicles began to gleam as the morning light came.
- The signal fires gleamed from across the river.
leviathan
noun
anything of immense size and power
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Why Dictionary.com chose leviathan
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- First recorded between 1350–1400.
- From Hebrew liwyāthān, meaning “whale or leviathan;” possibly from a Semitic root that means “something with twists and turns.”
EXAMPLES OF LEVIATHAN
- The furnace room housed a leviathan of pipes, valves, and boilers.
- The corporation had grown into a financial leviathan that shaped global markets.
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- First recorded in 1545–55.
- From Greek mȳriás, meaning “ten thousand,” and mȳríos, meaning “countless.”
EXAMPLES OF MYRIAD
- He navigated myriad bureaucratic obstacles to get the permit.
- She felt a connection to the land through myriad childhood memories.
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