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gigantism

[jahy-gan-tiz-uhm, ji-, jahy-gan-tiz-uhm] / dʒaɪˈgæn tɪz əm, dʒɪ-, ˈdʒaɪ gænˌtɪz əm /


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CVS Health has decided to split in two, reversing one of the signature deals that defined an era of health industry gigantism.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

Additional evidence about snake gigantism emerged from a separate 2025 study published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

The ability to continue growing throughout the year may have been a key innovation, sustained by great migrations, that facilitated the emergence of gigantism in early sauropods.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 15, 2023

Knowing that people with gigantism often died young, Hunter offered to buy his corpse.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 24, 2023

Like the buildup of super-tall skyscrapers along the Asian rim in our own time, architectural gigantism followed the accumulation of sufficient money and political confidence to make such gestures.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro


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