Thesaurus results for BLOBS

blobs

noun

plural of blob

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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as in beads

the quantity of fluid that falls naturally in one rounded mass got a blob of honey on his sweater

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Recent Examples of blobs Furniture stains and splotches are the last thing anyone wants to think about when curating the perfect domestic space, but there’s nothing remotely enjoyable about discolored blobs on furniture. — Bridget Reed Morawski, Architectural Digest, 17 July 2026 Electric shades of pink, purple, and orange make a stunning backdrop for these 3D clear blobs. — Kara Jillian Brown, InStyle, 17 July 2026 The semicircular blobs are from the carnivoran’s metacarpal pads; five digits extend out, short like a dog’s paws but spread wide like human fingers. — Literary Hub, 15 July 2026 Four tiny bright yellow blobs seeded on the way to reception. — Antonio Garrido, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026 Some see frogs crawling up its hulking brick wall; others swear a flying saucer is rising from the colorful blobs. — Lila Hempel-Edgers, Chicago Tribune, 10 July 2026 Milky, creamy blobs of mozzarella are melted over the top with plenty of torn basil. — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026 The other claims that early Earth was too hot for rigid plates, and that crust instead formed above mantle plumes rising from deep within the planet, a phenomenon comparable, Johnson said, to the wax blobs rising inside a lava lamp. — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 5 July 2026 Yeah; a lot of it was language blobs. — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 26 June 2026

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Noun

Broken chunks of concrete cover the building's entranceway while the staircase is littered in rubble and broken glass.

— Jane Arraf, NPR, 1 Aug. 2026
Reus missed big chunks of the campaign with knee and hamstring injuries.

— Nick Miller, New York Times, 31 July 2026

Definition of chunks

Noun

Lipofuscin is essentially cellular garbage (clumps of oxidized proteins and fats that cells can no longer break down).

— Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
What other research is being done Researchers are actively developing other therapies that target the toxic alpha-synuclein clumps that cause Parkinson’s and related diseases.

— Sunil Kumar, The Conversation, 31 July 2026

Definition of clumps

Noun

Photos apparently taken by the men themselves show wads of cash on the seat of a car, in a plastic bag and in stacks on the floor of a location in New York.

— Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 1 July 2026
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

Definition of wads

Noun

One surface is hydrophilic, made from a chitosan and polyvinyl alcohol hydrogel, allowing water to pass through while blocking oil droplets.

— Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 2 Aug. 2026
Some of that material condensed into tiny droplets called spherules, which spread around the planet before falling back through Earth's atmosphere at several miles per second.

— Stefanie Waldek, Space.com, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of droplets

Noun

Battered metal is as crucial to his kit as conventional drum sounds, and even his tonal elements feel as malleable as wrung-out sponges or wet lumps of clay.

— Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 30 July 2026
This uses information from other Mercedes vehicles driving ahead, sent through the Cloud, to adjust the suspension to better absorb lumps and bumps.

— Howard Walker, Robb Report, 29 July 2026

Definition of lumps

Noun

After an overnight rest in the refrigerator, the dough is rolled, filled, sliced, and baked in muffin tins, whose individual cups catch any drips from the bubbling filling to create the signature crisp, sticky bottoms and dramatic spirals.

— Claire Saffitz, Bon Appetit Magazine, 1 Aug. 2026
Janet grabbed a roll of paper towels, ready to clean up the dirty drips that ran across her kitchen floor.

— Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 23 July 2026

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