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One day, while thinking of ideas, he came up with a scheme to build replicas of everyday items that were "10 times the size, because I'm not very good at maths", he said.

From BBC • Apr. 9, 2026

Marie Byrd Land covers some 620,000 square miles of Antarctica—an area roughly the size of Alaska.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

“Relative to the size of the economy and to the size of household disposable income, household debt is at quarter-century lows,” writes Stephen Stanley, chief U.S. economist for Santander.

From Barron's • Apr. 8, 2026

What makes it stand out is not its size, but how bright it appears.

From Science Daily • Apr. 8, 2026

For all his size, Hord moved with the grace of a lynx, flexing his knees and repositioning his fingers on knife and spear.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver