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When, therefore, one envisions a matriarchy, one should not conjure up visions of a gang of Amazons lopping off breasts and testicles to rule by force of arms.

In some parts of Africa, Asia, and South America, amazon cultures still existed during the Middle Ages, such as that ruled by Queen Nzingha in Angola, who led her amazon army against the Portuguese in a series of wars during the first half of the seventeenth century. In Dahomey also in traditionally gynarchal West Africa, the army was made up of amazons even through the nineteenth century.

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In February, a young man from an isolated Indigenous tribe in Brazil made brief contact with the outside world before returning to the Amazon rainforest.

Google is one of several Big Tech firms that has made an aggressive push into gaming in recent years, along with Amazon (AMZN), Apple (AAPL) and Facebook (FB).

Those who hesitate risk being "amazoned," forfeiting business to an Internet newcomer, in the way that bookstore chains have lost ground to Amazon.com Inc., the online bookseller.

Venture capitalists' desks are thick with business plans promising ‘we're going to Amazon the insurance/travel/property business...’

Take the example of MetalSite.com, which is owned by steel companies. The steel companies aren't getting "Amazoned" by a start-up but, rather, they are doing the "Amazoning" within their own industry.

Amazon.com may soon be "amazoning" a few more industries.

Gone are the days when they agonized about being "Amazoned", or blind-sided by a dot-com ....

In other industries, established companies are pulling people and money away from their Internet operations, as their fear of being "Amazoned" by start-ups has subsided.

Meanwhile, traditional companies would be obliterated — "Amazoned" — by Internet upstarts.

"Everybody was afraid of getting Amazoned," Mr. Landan said. "They didn't want to get left behind."

[…] “There are people who Uber everywhere, who Seamless everything, who Amazon everything, and render their lives completely smooth.”

Although the evidence for real Amazons is thin, women athletes are often dubbed amazons.

In Triple-guard promotion chess (GPJ) a pawn newly triple-guarded by pieces other than pawns promotes to the combined value of the guarding pieces. Thus after b3 in the opening position a3 promotes to amazon, R+B+N, from triple guard by Ra1, Nb1, Bc1.

The amazon is simply a queen-knight hybrid, capable of moving as either piece.