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Recent Examples of gigantism There were several pictures of people suffering from gigantism, a defect that makes the pituitary gland produce excess growth hormone. Jane Smiley june 20, Literary Hub, 20 June 2025 This dramatic transformation is among the most extreme cases of island gigantism in birds, likely unfolding in under two million years as the eagle adapted to New Zealand’s ecosystem. Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 17 May 2025 The outlet added that he was diagnosed with gigantism, a medical condition that involves the overproduction of growth hormone. Anna Lazarus Caplan, People.com, 14 Apr. 2025 Its role as an apex predator points to a complex food chain where the availability of large prey could have driven the evolution of gigantism in marine snakes. Scott Travers, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for gigantism
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Noun
  • But the magnitude of the moment is unmistakable.
    Alec Lewis, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • It still too soon to determine the exact location/magnitude of potential impacts from Kiko.
    Joe Edwards, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Brontotheres, the ancient North American ancestors of the horse, is a giantism outlier as—growing from around 40 pounds to four to five tons in 16 million years.
    Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 16 May 2023
  • In an especially mind-bending passage, Wengrow and Graeber show that the majority of Paleolithic tombs contained not grandees but individuals with physical anomalies including dwarfism, giantism, and spinal abnormalities.
    Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 11 July 2022
Noun
  • Our Universe may be full of stars, galaxies, and a cosmic web of large-scale structure, all separated by the vastness of empty space between them, but it wasn’t born that way.
    Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Director Reinaldo Marcus Green keeps his camera low to emphasize the vastness of the tennis world bearing down on Venus, all while Richard (Will Smith) watches on, ever enigmatically, from the tunnels.
    Joe Reid, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Hawley, who directed the premiere, brings an impressive sense of scale to the action, conveying the hugeness of the spaceship and its urban crash zone, contrasted with the smallness of the figures trying to make their way through the mayhem.
    Noel Murray, Vulture, 13 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • To appreciate the full moral weight and dramatic immensity of these moments means grasping the significance of the moments leading up to them—and the ones that come afterward.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Not even the best paintings or photographs can ever trace its immensity; only fractions can be glimpsed and never held for long.
    Tom Zoellner, AZCentral.com, 25 July 2025

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“Gigantism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gigantism. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.

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