as in tons
a considerable amount
picked up a bushel of decorations at the after-Christmas sale
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Recent Examples of bushels
Sitting up high while barely five feet tall, no doors in the summertime, bushels of basil and rosemary from the farmer’s market wafting up to the front.
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Literary Hub, 16 Sep. 2025
To enjoy bushels of your favorite fruits, there are some savvy ways to improve the health of your trees and enhance your harvest.
—Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Sep. 2025
The tale of the wreck On what would end up being its last voyage, the Carruthers stopped at Fort William, Ontario, now Thunder Bay, on Lake Superior, and picked up 371,000 bushels of wheat.
—Frank Witsil, Freep.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Literary Hub, 16 Sep. 2025
To enjoy bushels of your favorite fruits, there are some savvy ways to improve the health of your trees and enhance your harvest.
—Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Sep. 2025
The tale of the wreck On what would end up being its last voyage, the Carruthers stopped at Fort William, Ontario, now Thunder Bay, on Lake Superior, and picked up 371,000 bushels of wheat.
—Frank Witsil, Freep.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bushels
Noun
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This popular Birdies shoe comes in tons of colors and fabrications; Meghan Markle is a fan of the style, having worn them in black on a Disneyland outing with her family.—
Alesandra Dubin,
Travel + Leisure,
26 Sep. 2025
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The next-generation Virginia class is 377 feet long with a displacement of 7,800 tons; the Los Angeles class, first deployed in 1976, measures 360 feet and displaces 6,900 tons.—
Kapil Kajal,
Interesting Engineering,
26 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The fest happened along the shore of the Eel River and featured loads of daytime activities along with the music by night.—
Katie Bain,
Billboard,
25 Sep. 2025
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Planted in the fall, hairy vetch (Vicia villosa) quickly grows to 12-20 inches tall, adding loads of nitrogen to the soil and preventing erosion.—
Miranda Crowell,
Better Homes & Gardens,
24 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Early the next morning, out on Crotch Island, Ramos led Eglin and a few visitors down an old track littered with rusted machinery and piles of grout (the vulgate for waste rock) to an arena-size section of the quarry where the four men were already busy cutting stone.—
Nick Paumgarten,
New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2025
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Debris piles have replaced pews; the welcoming church has closed its doors; and the churchgoers’ mounting grief has swelled.—
Holly Yan,
CNN Money,
29 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The maintenance of this expertise took dedicated chunks of time that had to be spread over lengthy and secure careers.—
Time,
Time,
1 Oct. 2025
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This shock vaporized chunks of the industrial bases of nations around the world, including the United States.—
Greg Rosalsky,
NPR,
30 Sep. 2025
Noun
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If ingested in large enough quantities, this plant also can cause heart rhythm abnormalities, seizures and death.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
24 Sep. 2025
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Most of our supply comes indirectly from tritium decay in nuclear stockpiles, producing only modest quantities.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Sep. 2025
Noun
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States Say Huge Cuts Arbitrary In the new case, the suing states—led by Illinois and joined by California, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and others—say DHS responded to Smith’s ruling by abruptly reallocating hundreds of millions of dollars away from them.—
Robert Alexander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Oct. 2025
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Early Sunday on the same sparsely populated peninsula, the Krasheninnikov volcano spewed white ash clouds into the sky for the first time in hundreds of years.—
Nik Popli,
Time,
1 Oct. 2025
Noun
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More than a dozen high-quality studies over decades have since found no evidence of a link between childhood vaccines and autism.—
Mary Kekatos,
ABC News,
26 Sep. 2025
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Remember when finalists used to have a couple months to design a dozen or so looks?—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
26 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The company, which is a joint venture between real estate outfit Hudson Pacific Properties and private equity firm Blackstone, operates two lots in Hollywood, one in West Hollywood and one in the Valley.—
Diana Lodderhose,
Deadline,
25 Sep. 2025
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Parking is available in lots G, J, L, Yellow, Garage, South VIP, East VIP or West VIP.—
Ed Masley,
AZCentral.com,
25 Sep. 2025
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“Bushels.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bushels. Accessed 3 Oct. 2025.
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