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as in chunk
a small uneven mass
flicked a blob of jelly on the toast and began to spread it around
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Recent Examples of blob
Taken together, these insights helped scientists arrive at the current prevailing theory that a Mars-size object smashed into Earth, ejecting a blob of molten material from our planet that became the moon.
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Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 6 Apr. 2026
With such a sheer volume of work coming out, the anime market can get crowded, and its easy for these works to bleed together into a vague blob of gag comedies, action-adventure shows, and sickly-sweet romances.
—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 3 Apr. 2026
The effect of all these wildly inventive choices is of a splintered consciousness — and of an image that’s been photocopied so many times its pixels have become blobs.
—Theater Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Mar. 2026
Especially in 2026, when every parking lot looks like a carton of Walmart eggs—endless rows of colorless blobs.
—Andrew P. Collins, The Drive, 19 Mar. 2026
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Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 6 Apr. 2026
With such a sheer volume of work coming out, the anime market can get crowded, and its easy for these works to bleed together into a vague blob of gag comedies, action-adventure shows, and sickly-sweet romances.
—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 3 Apr. 2026
The effect of all these wildly inventive choices is of a splintered consciousness — and of an image that’s been photocopied so many times its pixels have become blobs.
—Theater Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Mar. 2026
Especially in 2026, when every parking lot looks like a carton of Walmart eggs—endless rows of colorless blobs.
—Andrew P. Collins, The Drive, 19 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for blob
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Americans saw large chunks of their wallets get eaten up by soaring gas prices in March; however, consumers still had money left in the tank to spend elsewhere.—
Alicia Wallace,
CNN Money,
21 Apr. 2026
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Offensive tackle Left tackle Ickey Ekwonu is on the final year of his contract and will miss at least a chunk of 2026 after sustaining a significant knee injury at the end of last year.—
Alex Zietlow
April 21,
Charlotte Observer,
21 Apr. 2026
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Inspired by both pre-Columbian cultures and modern scientific theories, Jensen made energetic diagrams of shapes, symbols, and numbers in loud complementary colors, using thick globs of paint; the results generate a fascinating friction.—
Brian Seibert,
New Yorker,
6 Feb. 2026
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With just a pea-size glob of scat, biologists can genetically decode which individual whale produced the sample.—
Kelso Harper,
Scientific American,
16 Dec. 2025
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Then, tumble dry on low heat with clean tennis balls or dryer balls to break up clumps and restore fluffiness.—
Katie Cloyd,
Martha Stewart,
22 Apr. 2026
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This ingredient outmasses the full sum total of all normal matter by about a 5-to-1 ratio, clumps and clusters like (slow-moving) matter does, but doesn’t interact with normal matter or light in any measurable way.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
21 Apr. 2026
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Kids love the decorating step here — picking out old charms or beads to hang from the wire wrapping feels like a treasure hunt.—
Lauren Jarvis-Gibson,
Sacbee.com,
21 Apr. 2026
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Bright red and round, with a hook-like stalk, the peppers hang like beads from each plant.—
Kamala Thiagarajan,
NPR,
19 Apr. 2026
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Another, from 2009, is dominated by the profile of what appears to be a guard dog gripping a black hunk of something unidentifiable.—
Ben Davis,
The New York Review of Books,
25 Apr. 2026
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Your home health guy is a hunk.—
Andrea Lavinthal,
PEOPLE,
22 Apr. 2026
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Mussels, for instance, create strong underwater adhesives and fibers through dense protein droplets.—
Alexandra Harrell,
Footwear News,
20 Apr. 2026
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Wave action on the water’s surface can break oil into smaller droplets that sink into the ocean depths.—
Asuka Koda,
CNN Money,
17 Apr. 2026
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This was long before Mayor Giuliani got his shorts in a wad about Ofili’s The Holy Virgin Mary, part of a 1999 group show at the Brooklyn Museum displaying art owned by the advertising mogul Charles Saatchi.—
Jerry Saltz,
Vulture,
20 Apr. 2026
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Cubans have long been accustomed to shopping with wads of cash stuffed into bags after compounding bouts of soaring inflation.—
Prashant Rao,
semafor.com,
8 Apr. 2026
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Using a drip line reduces the amount of water lost to wind and evaporation.—
Elise Schmelzer,
Denver Post,
21 Apr. 2026
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Arid regions, in particular, benefit from drip irrigation, says Klopp.—
Alexandra Kelly,
Martha Stewart,
20 Apr. 2026
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“Blob.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blob. Accessed 27 Apr. 2026.
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