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Is a super-Earth with the same gravity as Earth possible?

I'm helping a friend construct a fictional planet for a project, and we've run across a problem. He's looking to create a planet nearly identical to Earth, except only larger. It would need to have the same gravity, similar rock content, etc. However, I watched Artifexian's terrestrial planet creation video and used the resources in the video description. ---That's where the issue comes in. According to the graph that was linked, a planet larger than Earth that maintains the same mass falls under the "waterworld" category. We're looking for a world with continents, so that obviously won't work. Is it possible to create an Earth clone that is the same in all aspects except maybe 25%-50% larger?