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as in chunks
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 blobs
The cause of these kicks is the ejection of blobs of plasma from the red giant stars.
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Robert Lea, Space.com, 22 June 2026
Curate a collection of bright colors, applying in dots, blobs, and splotches for an elevated art school vibe.
—Calin Van Paris, InStyle, 19 June 2026
The colors, pains, pleasures, smells, tastes and sounds, the what-it’s-like of being conscious, are not private inner bits and blobs that philosophers call qualia, floating in a theatre of the mind.
—Andréa Morris, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
Set the blobs up in the yard and allow kids or teens to hop from one blob to another.
—Parents, 11 June 2026
Unlike some recent soft robotic concepts that resemble blobs of slime or liquid droplets, the NTU design maintains a solid but flexible structure.
—New Atlas, 8 June 2026
Nilsson’s version shares little with its source beyond Adam and Eve themselves, here recast as doughy, beigy silhouettes striking poses amid an almost psychedelic soup of parti-color fronds, blobs, and amoebas.
—Jeremy Lybarger, Artforum, 2 June 2026
To tie the space together, the sink and floor tile match the painting's black blobs.
—Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 25 May 2026
Two Rorschach blobs as tall as men—one dark, the other a bright copper and blue—cast lassos at each other.
—Walker Mimms, The New York Review of Books, 23 May 2026
Robert Lea, Space.com, 22 June 2026
Curate a collection of bright colors, applying in dots, blobs, and splotches for an elevated art school vibe.
—Calin Van Paris, InStyle, 19 June 2026
The colors, pains, pleasures, smells, tastes and sounds, the what-it’s-like of being conscious, are not private inner bits and blobs that philosophers call qualia, floating in a theatre of the mind.
—Andréa Morris, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
Set the blobs up in the yard and allow kids or teens to hop from one blob to another.
—Parents, 11 June 2026
Unlike some recent soft robotic concepts that resemble blobs of slime or liquid droplets, the NTU design maintains a solid but flexible structure.
—New Atlas, 8 June 2026
Nilsson’s version shares little with its source beyond Adam and Eve themselves, here recast as doughy, beigy silhouettes striking poses amid an almost psychedelic soup of parti-color fronds, blobs, and amoebas.
—Jeremy Lybarger, Artforum, 2 June 2026
To tie the space together, the sink and floor tile match the painting's black blobs.
—Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 25 May 2026
Two Rorschach blobs as tall as men—one dark, the other a bright copper and blue—cast lassos at each other.
—Walker Mimms, The New York Review of Books, 23 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blobs
Noun
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Like your raw seafood in chunks?—
Scott Hocker,
TheWeek,
18 June 2026
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The Israeli military took over large portions of Gaza as part of a broad invasion, and later seized control of chunks of Lebanon and Syria.—
Melanie Lidman,
Los Angeles Times,
18 June 2026
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Along with debuting new styles, Ancient Greek Sandals also added beads to some of its bestselling sandals.—
Lauren Fisher,
Footwear News,
22 June 2026
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At the Sankofa Healing Studio booth, children created calming jars filled with beads and glitter while making bracelets with family members and friends.—
Eva Andersen,
CBS News,
21 June 2026
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McCary also points out that shorter grass clippings are also less likely to form large or heavy clumps that might smother patches of lawn.—
Peg Aloi,
The Spruce,
21 June 2026
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Plant them in clumps behind or at the edges of a group of dahlias for a stunning early autumn display.—
Andy Wilcox,
Better Homes & Gardens,
20 June 2026
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Bathroom sink drains can become clogged from hair, globs of toothpaste, and soapy residue.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
The Spruce,
30 May 2026
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Bieber’s face artfully dotted with globs of lotion.—
Lucy Feldman,
Time,
6 May 2026
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The alpha heroes of 1980s romances—ranch owners, corporate raiders, anyone played by Michael Douglas—tended to be emotionally constipated anti-feminists intent on dominating the opposite sex by using testosterone and wads of cash.—
Sophie Gilbert,
The Atlantic,
10 June 2026
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And Lamanna’s coauthor Jingmai O’Connor, vertebrate paleontologist and associate curator of fossil reptiles at Chicago’s Field Museum, also pointed out wads of bone found in the Changma Basin resemble pellets that owls regurgitate after feeding on prey.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
4 June 2026
Noun
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The stones are arranged in an irregular composition intended to evoke falling droplets of water.—
Anthony DeMarco,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2026
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The most seductive is a spectacular piece called the Untamed, which physically embodies the jeweler’s sensibilities in an 18-karat-white-gold strand of ivy with diamond leaves interspersed with tiny rock-crystal dew droplets.—
Jill Newman,
Robb Report,
18 June 2026
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Far from lumps of rock, the trojans, along with DJ and Dinkinesh (which is the Ethiopian name for the Lucy fossil), are windows into the past, and the storytellers of the Earth's most ancient history.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
19 June 2026
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Lenders will take the keys and private equity will take its lumps, as designed.—
Liz Hoffman,
semafor.com,
18 June 2026
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Place a towel or drop cloth on the floor underneath the skylight to catch drips and debris.—
Madeline Buiano,
Martha Stewart,
18 June 2026
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For shoppers comparing options, the cheaper menu items at the same studios include standard IV drips and Restore’s $79 NAD+ bundle.—
Allison Palmer,
Charlotte Observer,
17 June 2026
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“Blobs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blobs. Accessed 24 Jun. 2026.
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