(n.) Any one of the legendary Greek heroes who sailed with Jason, in the Argo, in quest of the Golden Fleece.
(n.) A cephalopod of the genus Argonauta.
Example Sentences:
(1) People who enjoyed Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts this year are also bound to like this; Myles is one of Nelson’s great influences.
(2) Its dive and climb performance is regulated by ballast tanks, and it has been described as "crisply argonautic".
(3) It was the second worst performing fund of the year, losing 15.7% and beaten to the bottom only by an absolute return fund from Argonaut Partners.
Juggernaut
Definition:
(n.) One of the names under which Vishnu, in his incarnation as Krishna, is worshiped by the Hindoos.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some of their most cherished objectives, such as parliamentary reform, have been left as roadkill by the juggernauts of Tory and Labour hostility.
(2) The George Bush campaign juggernaut hit the first serious pothole of its cash-fuelled drive to the presidency yesterday, as the Texas governor tried in vain to fend off questions about whether he had used cocaine as a young man.
(3) Nearly £5bn was wiped off the company's stock market value on Thursday after the supermarket juggernaut hit the wall during the peak selling season.
(4) It was a taste of off-grid hippy monasticism inspired by his time at Taliesin West, where each student had to build their own shelter in the desert (a tradition that continues there today), and an embodiment of his underlying motive to “frugalise the frenzied consumerist juggernaut”.
(5) How is that going to change the juggernaut that is this bill in progress?"
(6) Last year's final, when Simon Ambrose was hired, was up against ITV's juggernaut Britain's Got Talent and drew an average of 6.8 million viewers.
(7) Though the Toyota juggernaut may have left the road for now, the firm's name still looms large.
(8) Organised as Isis less than 18 months ago, the group had previously worked hard to cultivate a reputation as an all-powerful juggernaut.
(9) The activities of the BBC 's commercial arm, BBC Worldwide, came in for criticism from rival media companies today, with one executive branding it an "out-of-control juggernaut".
(10) There is a lot of land to be sold to people with cars – and unless it is bought up, this juggernaut of urbanisation could yet stall.
(11) And they are easy targets for the GMP media juggernaut to focus the blame on.” She said she had highlighted problems raised in the report back in 2011 in a letter to the chief constable, Peter Fahy.
(12) But the corporate juggernaut has thundered on, driving the Brussels agenda.
(13) They were the "juggernaut leading the Korean Wave across Asia, the embodiment of the ultra-slick choreography and catchy pop songs that earned K-pop its reputation", says Robert Poole, chief executive of SomethingDrastic, a Tokyo-based Asian music promoter.
(14) "It's time to help create vibrant, local economies – even if that means standing in the way of the global corporate juggernauts."
(15) Sadly, such hard-headed thinking is at odds with the political desire to keep the reform juggernaut motoring onwards at all costs.
(16) Well they certainly did look more like the juggernaut they were in the first half of the season, but that was just one game and the Atlanta Hawks looked like their regular seasons selves, the ones who only accidentally made the playoffs because the New York Knicks were especially New York Knicks-y this season.
(17) However, his campaign faces bigger obstacles in the meantime as it struggles to combat the Clinton juggernaut.
(18) If Bosh is racking up his fair share of points and rebounds, the Heat are an unstoppable offensive juggernaut.
(19) "The medium has grown up, and now the GTA franchise is a giant juggernaut that appears to be punching down instead of up," says female games journalist Leigh Alexander.
(20) Backing for the president in Northampton County, Pennsylvania , a former industrial juggernaut which voted for Barack Obama twice before falling for Trump in 2016, appeared to be healthy, three months in.