juggernaut

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The campaign was not seen as a juggernaut, and the voting public at times seemed disinterested.

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  1. noun Something, such as a belief or institution, that elicits blind and destructive devotion or to which people are ruthlessly sacrificed.
  2. noun An overwhelming, advancing force that crushes or seems to crush everything in its path: "It doesn't assume that people need necessarily remain passive when confronted by what appears to be the juggernaut of history” (Christopher Lehmann-Haupt).
  3. noun Used as a title for the Hindu deity Krishna.

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  • A D-II juggernaut, the Lions own three national championships and have been to the playoffs three times in the last four years. —  Fanblogs.com
  • : Microsoft's attempt to combat Sony's SingStar juggernaut is admiral, but ultimately ends up singing off key. —  Joystiq
  • Though Genachowski was reportedly in favor of the delay from February 17 to June 12, the job of redirecting the transition education juggernaut -- and starting to clean up the mess thereafter -- fell to Interim Chairman Michael Copps. —  Betanews
  • Japan's manufacturing juggernaut -- already mastered by Korea -- is now being copied by China, India and Eastern Europe. —  detnews.com - Local
  • The broad story line of today's NCAA Tournament championship game has North Carolina - the juggernaut, the powerhouse, the team that was "supposed" to make the title game - facing upstart Michigan State, the underdog trying to pull off a nearly impossible mission. —  Las Vegas Sun Stories: All Sun Headlines
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  1. Hindi jagannāth, title of Krishna, from Sanskrit jagannāthaḥ, lord of the world : jagat, moving, the world (from earlier present participle of jigāti, he goes; see gwā- in Indo-European roots) + nāthaḥ, lord (from nāthate, he helps, protects). Senses 1 and 2, from the fact that worshipers have thrown themselves under the wheels of a huge car or wagon on which the idol of Krishna was drawn in an annual procession at Puri in east-central India.
 

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