larger than

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Their survey included 32 gas giants and brown dwarf companions in other star systems, including 6 planets larger than Jupiter and 25 brown dwarf companions.

From Science Daily • Jun. 13, 2026

"In a country where people often struggle to trust institutions, figures like that become larger than sport itself."

From BBC • Jun. 12, 2026

In Zug, a stretch of rolling hills and lakes not much larger than Washington, D.C., finance minister Heinz Tännler spent years rolling out the red carpet for highly skilled foreigners.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026

Few public figures generate stronger reactions in New York, and his appearance — as it usually does — adds another layer of politics, spectacle and unpredictability to an event that already feels larger than sports.

From Salon • Jun. 7, 2026

She held against her ear a brownish-orange-and-white-striped conch shell, slightly larger than her hand, and said, giggling, “Hey, Ariel, I can’t hear you over the ocean waves.”

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas