How to Use gigantism in a Sentence

gigantism

noun

• As Davis reports, the recent advent of gigantism rules out the idea that megapredators, which were already on the way out at the time, caused the change.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 25 May 2017
• It's been centuries since the first ancient skeleton of a person with gigantism was found near Rome.
  — Ana Faguy, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2022
• The foot-long size of the giant isopods has been attributed to deep-sea gigantism, the same phenomenon that leads to giant squids at the bottom of our oceans.
  — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 13 Aug. 2022
• The scientists assume that the penguins' gigantism was a result of the seabirds’ flightlessness.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2017
• One explanation for gigantism in both land and aerial arthropods at that time was the absence of predators.
  — Anna Diamond, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Mar. 2020
• In fact, the findings suggest that the trend toward gigantism in marine mammals may have begun earlier than thought, according to the study.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2023
• This suggests that gigantism evolved shortly after penguins lost the ability to fly and took to the water, but later re-emerged millions of years later.
  — Mika McKinnon, Smithsonian, 13 Dec. 2017
• It's called island gigantism, and one of the cuckoo bees Straka discovered is an example.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 3 Sep. 2012
• André had a prolific career in professional wrestling and came to be known for his size, caused by acromegaly, sometimes called gigantism, which made his limbs and organs grow too large.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2018
• The trouble comes with the new tower’s north and south walls, which reprise the generic gigantism of new skyscrapers that have been popping up like dandelions in China and assorted Persian Gulf city-states.
  — Blair Kamin, chicagotribune.com, 18 Apr. 2018
• They were also taken aback by the city's gigantism (2.3 million inhabitants) and the monstrous traffic jams caused by the national demonstrations of the past few days.
  — Marie Claire, 30 Mar. 2015
• What Buñuel and a few others spotted was that for all its overweening gigantism, Guernica is essentially a piece of kitsch.
  — John Banville, The New Republic, 16 Nov. 2021
• But both are just one part of a larger, relentless trend toward gigantism in Silicon Valley.
  — Maya Kosoff, The Hive, 23 June 2017
• Some people do grow to unusual size – and ancient skeletons have been found of people suffering from gigantism.
  — Ana Faguy, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2022
• As a result, his body produced too much growth hormone, causing conditions known as acromegaly and gigantism -- meaning his bones grew much bigger than normal.
  — Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 11 Jan. 2023
• The only reason to fear corporate gigantism is if companies use their size and their power to jack up prices to achieve monopolistic lengths.
  — Isaac Chotiner, Slate Magazine, 5 Oct. 2017
• Women tended to bear the brunt of this overblown spiritual gigantism—the source of the terrific feminist assault on him that began in the late 1960s—but men were just as vulnerable to attack.
  — D.j. Taylor, WSJ, 6 Aug. 2021
• There's a very long review out which presents a theory for how sauropod dinosaurs could scale up to such enormous sizes, Biology of the sauropod dinosaurs: the evolution of gigantism.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 11 May 2010
• His size was a result of gigantism caused by excess growth hormone, which later resulted in acromegaly, a disorder that can cause joint pain and headaches, along with a host of other complications.
  — Mike Miller, Peoplemag, 25 Sep. 2022
• Hold the phone Smartphone gigantism has spawned plenty of PopSockets competitors.
  — David Pierce, WSJ, 17 Feb. 2019
• Get our daily newsletter Six cases of gigantism stand out most, with the firms becoming so big that governments intervened.
  — The Economist, 5 July 2018
• For years, most paleontologists have believed that a suite of specific anatomical traits evolved in later sauropodomorphs to allow for gigantism.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 9 July 2018
• Tollis previously researched the genomes of whales as connected to gigantism and cancer resistance, but was not involved with The Royal Society study.
  — Francesca Giuliani-Hoffman, CNN, 5 Mar. 2021
• And it's believed that gigantism in penguins may have come earlier than previously thought, possibly shortly after the birds became flightless divers, according to the study.
  — Jen Christensen, CNN, 12 Dec. 2017
• But these are tenuous, small first steps—at least relative to Amazon’s corporate gigantism, with 1.3 million workers worldwide.
  — Luis Feliz Leon, The New Republic, 26 Mar. 2021
• This tendency toward gigantism is no different for isopods.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 9 Aug. 2022
• The boy, who suffers from gigantism, faces a difficulty similar to the mother’s in The Hero of This Book: as their physical growth or deterioration progresses, both begin to struggle with their shoes.
  — Yiyun Li, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
• Then in his mid-50s, Mayhew — who was over 7 feet tall — was suffering from the effects of gigantism, a rare condition that causes people to grow extraordinarily tall and afflicts them with joint pain, muscle weakness and enlarged organs.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2023
• 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.
  — Michael D. D'emic, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2023
• The isolation of Madagascar also likely played a crucial role in the development of the elephant bird's extraordinary size, a phenomenon known as island gigantism.
  — Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 6 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024