BULKS Synonyms: 215 Similar and Opposite Words

bulks 1 of 2

noun

plural of bulk

as in majorities

the largest part or quantity of something agriculture makes up the bulk of the country's economy

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as in weights

the main or greater part of something as distinguished from its subordinate parts the cookie lost a few crumbs, but the bulk of it remained

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as in sizes

the total amount of measurable space or surface occupied by something due to its bulk, we were unable to get the enormous bookcase into the back seat of the car

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verb

present tense third-person singular of bulk

as in increases

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Noun

Democrats hope to flip majorities in both the House and the Senate by hammering the GOP over affordability, gas prices and inflation.

— Steve Kopack, NBC news, 2 Oct. 2026
Neither will be back until after the midterm elections, when it’ll be known whether Republicans will maintain their narrow majorities next year.

— Ramsey Touchberry, The Washington Examiner, 1 Oct. 2026

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Noun

However, the model’s final hardware requirements, downloadable weights, and independent benchmark results were not publicly available at the time of the announcement.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2026
During its original heyday, the Alite series dipped to weights below 400 lb (181 kg) and was even popular for motorcycle camping.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 1 Oct. 2026

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Noun

More teachers, smaller class sizes and buildings better adapted to the climate are the most common demands of high school protesters.

— Joseph Ataman, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2026
In addition to expanding its successful and highly Instagrammed Le Cambon family with new sizes and pouches reprising its belted construction, the founders debuted the Duo style.

— Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of sizes

Verb

That’s harder to find in fashion these days, as the comparable speed of digital culture increases trend turnover and even algorithmic advertising struggles to keep up with what looking empirically cool means.

— Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 6 Oct. 2026
While productivity increases dramatically, consumption often grows even faster.

— Sudipto Dasgupta, Forbes.com, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of increases

Verb

When your site loads quickly, visitors may stay longer, browse more and be more likely to convert.

— Anthony Savino, Forbes.com, 2 Oct. 2026
The main sleeper pod packs down small to store easily at home, then loads neatly into small and midsize vans only to burst out the tailgate at camp and create an instant bedroom.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of loads

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The agency will coordinate with several government bodies on the background checks, such as Argentina’s State Intelligence Secretariat, Financial Information Unit, and Ministry of Security, as well as international intelligence.

— Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Oct. 2026
That emotional shortcut, more than novelty, is what has made the scent sticky with consumers who want their homes and bodies to smell like a specific memory rather than a candy aisle.

— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Miami Herald, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of bodies

Noun

At Bank of America, Gopalkrishnan said the company evaluates AI implementations across 16 risk dimensions, including privacy, bias, workforce implications and intellectual property.

— Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026
Researchers have long thought that in a turbulent system like a current of water, energy flows in only one direction, from larger scales to smaller ones, or vice versa, depending on the system’s dimensions.

— Stephen Ornes, Quanta Magazine, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of dimensions

Verb

As the cost of petrochemical feedstocks for virgin synthetics rises by as much as 60 percent or more, the price difference between virgin and bio-based options is getting smaller.

— Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 5 Oct. 2026
As atmospheric carbon rises to levels beyond precedent in human history and consequently raises the global temperature to levels unprecedented on the human scale, the importance of places where carbon is sequestered becomes ever greater.

— Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 5 Oct. 2026

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