as in ton
a considerable amount picked up a bushel of decorations at the after-Christmas sale

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Recent Examples of bushel The Corn Refiners Association, an industry trade group, backed Mueller's concerns, estimating that eliminating high-fructose corn syrup from U.S. food and beverage supply chains could cut corn prices by up to 34 cents a bushel and result in a $5.1 billion loss in farm revenue. Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 July 2025 This includes spoonfuls of mayonnaise, bushels of croissants, and trays of sheet cakes. Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 15 July 2025 The average corn yield for Rock County has hit 202 bushels per acre. Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 6 July 2025 With a sense of flair and confidence, many of these prognostications can be easily misread as somehow a bushel of facts and knowns, rather than a bundle of opinions and conjecture. Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 12 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for bushel
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Noun
  • There’s been a ton of turnover on the pitching staffs of both teams, but the Dodgers brought in arms that were more toxic and less hittable.
    Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2025
  • These boulders, ranging in size from several meters to hundreds of meters and weighing up to a few tons, occasionally tumble down cliffs and crater walls, leaving bright tracks of disturbed lunar dust behind.
    Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 14 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Last time, Republicans were defending more than two dozen districts won by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2016.
    W. James Antle III, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Three dozen lucky Klarna staffers just joined the ultrarich club thanks to its recent stock windfall.
    Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • It’s finished in a beautiful coat of light green and has loads of chrome trim and a black roof.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 12 Sep. 2025
  • There’s a lot of tradesmen, but songwriters… There’s not loads of them.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 12 Sep. 2025
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  • But the return of Manu Garcia and a slew of attack-minded substitutions couldn’t get Sporting an equalizer.
    Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 14 Sep. 2025
  • And in 2015, Andy Samberg crooned to a slew of stars about the perils of #PeakTV.
    Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 13 Sep. 2025
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  • And only recently, new large language models in artificial intelligence, such as ChatGPT, promise to greatly expand our ability to manipulate and employ enormous quantities of data.
    Alan Lightman September 12, Literary Hub, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The project demands about 500,000 cubic meters of concrete and 80,000 tons of steel – material quantities that dwarf most construction projects globally.
    Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Banfield had to go back to the pile, as it was called, for nine straight days.
    Rachel Burchfield, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The pile-in on Broadcom comes after Oracle nearly turned into a hyperscaler overnight.
    Pia Singh, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • David Long has also played for a bunch of teams and was in Los Angeles when Evero was with the Rams, though, as stated before, his former proteges haven’t necessarily led to consistently strong results in Carolina.
    Mike Kaye September 10, Charlotte Observer, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The linen gets softer with every wash, too, and the interior 100% polyester fill won’t shift or bunch up.
    Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • For the second time in the last three season, Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow will miss a large chunk of the season.
    Michael Gallagher, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
  • In the worst-case scenario, a collision could smash a satellite into many more pieces of space debris, which each then go on to collide with more satellites, which produces more chunks of space junk, and so on and so forth.
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 15 Sep. 2025

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“Bushel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bushel. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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