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“Ice giant-like planets are some of the most common ones out there,” Bethany Ehlmann, a professor at Caltech and one of the steering committee members on the Decadal, tells The Verge.

From The Verge • Apr. 19, 2022

The country people for miles round about his own neighbourhood gave him the sobriquet of "Girt Andrew," from his giant-like stature and great strength.

From Wrestling and Wrestlers: Biographical Sketches of Celebrated Athletes of the Northern Ring; to Which is Added Notes on Bull and Badger Baiting by Gilpin, Sidney

Fallen monarch, awake from the degradation of your thraldom; rise giant-like and let the thunder of your royal voice be heard once more!

From Vagaries by Munthe, Axel

Yesterday thy head was brown, as are the flowing locks of love, In the bright blue sky I watch'd thee towering, giant-like, above.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 by Various

Whose darling self, "I," has not sunk into utter insignificance before the giant-like idea we have formed of a renowned man!

From The Banished A Swabian Historical Tale. In Three Volumes. by Hauff, Wilhelm