boodles

noun

plural of boodle
1
as in groups
a usually small number of persons considered as a unit a boodle of teenagers boarded the bus together

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2
as in bribes
something given or promised in order to improperly influence a person's conduct or decision an IRS agent was caught accepting some boodle from people she was auditing

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  1. groups
  2. bribes
  3. batches
  4. groupings
  5. lots
  6. clusters
  7. bands
Noun
  • The European Union has banned AI that encourages dangerous behavior in vulnerable groups like children, and mandated transparency requirements for other chatbots.
    — Stephanie Yang, CNN Money, 23 July 2026
  • As noted by Beard, this board was built with a deliberateness and purpose to ensure that the women had the runway to impact decision-making, advise the athletes, and construct the next basketball league alongside the co-founder groups.
    — Allison Smith, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
Definition of groups
Noun
  • Last week, a Chinese court sentenced a municipal official in Nanjing to death for accepting bribes worth a staggering $325 million, one of the biggest hauls ever.
    — Andy Browne, semafor.com, 14 July 2026
  • Then, in 2016, Correia used his position as mayor to solicit bribes from and extort prospective marijuana businesses seeking to operate in the city.
    — Tim Dunn, Boston Herald, 6 July 2026
Definition of bribes
Noun
  • Much like running a dishwasher, running one large load uses less energy and water than running several smaller ones—even if your machine has a setting for smaller batches.
    — Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 July 2026
  • The company scrambled to placate the brands with new demonetization policies, stripping ads from huge batches of videos.
    — Claire Stapleton, New Yorker, 18 July 2026
Definition of batches
Noun
  • Scale and proportion also play a major role in helping groupings look balanced.
    — Colleen Sullivan, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 July 2026
  • When in a forest, stay in proximity to shorter tree groupings.
    — STAR-TELEGRAM WEATHER BOT, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 July 2026
Definition of groupings
Noun
  • The licenses are split into 11 lots, valued at $230 million in total, with clauses to prevent a single company from owning all the spectrum bands.
    — Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 17 July 2026
  • Carry more than one form of payment, since some concession stands and lots still take cash only or have card readers that fail at the worst possible moment.
    — Lauren Schuster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 July 2026
Definition of lots
Noun
  • Biren said the approach could enable clusters with up to 1,024 AI accelerator cards, significantly expanding the scale of computing systems needed to support increasingly demanding AI workloads.
    — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 18 July 2026
  • In 2022, Greenpeace’s investigative journalism arm, Unearthed, found the charred remnants of footwear and clothing from Clarks, Diesel, Michael Kors, Next, Nike, Ralph Lauren and Reebok at five brick kiln clusters.
    — Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 17 July 2026
Definition of clusters
Noun
  • The influx of moisture and that storm system’s stalling front have already produced bands of rain in eastern Tennessee, southern Virginia and northern North Carolina.
    — Briana Waxman, CNN Money, 23 July 2026
  • Bertha is expected to move along the Louisiana and upper Texas coastlines, producing gusting winds of up to 40 mph and bands of rain across southeast Louisiana and parts of Alabama.
    — Kenton Gewecke, ABC News, 22 July 2026
Definition of bands
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