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as in ton
a considerable amount
that new sports car must have cost a real chunk of change
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Recent Examples of chunk
The think tank noted that Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania—three Baltic countries making up a chunk of NATO's eastern flank on the Russian border—were part of both the former USSR and the Russian Empire, as well as Moldova, which is in talks to join the European Union.
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Arick Wierson, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Apr. 2025
Advertising makes up a big chunk of revenue and profit at companies like Fox Corp., Paramount Global and Warner Bros Discovery to Meta and Snap.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 16 Apr. 2025
The bag has a spacious silhouette that can easily hold a laptop, cosmetics bag, water bottle, and other on-the-go items that tend to take up a chunk of real estate.
—Clara McMahon, People.com, 15 Apr. 2025
But, for example, the Russian Kosmos 1340, which weighed about 2 and a half tons, probably left behind a few chunks reaching the surface of Earth.
—Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 14 Apr. 2025
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Arick Wierson, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Apr. 2025
Advertising makes up a big chunk of revenue and profit at companies like Fox Corp., Paramount Global and Warner Bros Discovery to Meta and Snap.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 16 Apr. 2025
The bag has a spacious silhouette that can easily hold a laptop, cosmetics bag, water bottle, and other on-the-go items that tend to take up a chunk of real estate.
—Clara McMahon, People.com, 15 Apr. 2025
But, for example, the Russian Kosmos 1340, which weighed about 2 and a half tons, probably left behind a few chunks reaching the surface of Earth.
—Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 14 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chunk
Noun
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Avocado makes a ton of great organic sleep products, particularly its Green Mattress and Eco Mattress Topper.—
Nena Farrell,
Wired News,
22 Apr. 2025
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The tiny pup has been spotted meeting tons of celebs, including Demi Moore and her tiny dog, Pilaf, Powell's Twister costar Daisy Edgar-Jones and more.—
Charlotte Phillipp,
People.com,
22 Apr. 2025
Noun
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But she's got her choice of handsome high school hunks, including Reid (Andrew Liner), Davis' son and the school's quarterback, and Lucas (Garrett Wareing), the poor kid from the wrong side of the tracks.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
18 Apr. 2025
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Their weirdly cozy 750-square-foot studio layout, a tiny dot in a 3.5 million-square-foot hunk of capitalism, was to these bohemian commandos a rebuke to the city’s destruction of their old neighborhood close to the mall.—
Michael Phillips,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Apr. 2025
Noun
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About 70 feet down, the rover would see purple clumps along the lakebed formed by cyanobacteria, a microorganism that thrives in habitats like sinkholes that are high in sulfate and low in oxygen.—
Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi,
Discover Magazine,
18 Apr. 2025
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Plants grow from a thick rhizome and spread to form dense clumps that benefit from late summer division every few years.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
13 Apr. 2025
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Newcastle fans can feel justifiably angry by the notion that a team will waltz off with their No 9 with a flutter of eyelashes and a wad of cash.—
Jacob Whitehead,
New York Times,
9 Apr. 2025
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But luckily, the owner of the car, who came running out of the corner deli nearby, was content to accept a wad of cash, rather than getting the cops involved.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
31 Mar. 2025
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With an enrollment of over 45,000 students, FSU offers a wide range of undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs across more than a dozen colleges.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Apr. 2025
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More than a dozen high-quality studies have since found no evidence of a link between childhood vaccines and autism.—
Mary Kekatos,
ABC News,
17 Apr. 2025
Noun
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That familiar lump of expectation coagulated in my stomach and throat.—
Thomas Weddle,
Outdoor Life,
17 Apr. 2025
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Labor in healthcare includes taking down medical histories, making diagnoses, lifting patients, removing lumps, palpating livers, writing notes, processing claims and comforting patients.—
Kevin Vigilante,
Forbes.com,
15 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Learning that medical options for managing the condition are limited to hormonal drugs and surgery just piles onto the disappointment.—
Erica Sloan,
SELF,
25 Apr. 2025
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That didn’t bother Robinson, who is an hobbyist diver and had already done a dive visit to the site before acquiring the sunken pile of rusty iron.—
Popular Science Team,
Popular Science,
24 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Beelzebub, however, is nothing but evil incarnate, first appearing as a sort of metaphysical pollution—a writhing black oil-like glob suspended in midair.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
11 Mar. 2025
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But, just like peanut butter—which is considered healthy for infants—Levinson says that cold, firm chunks or thick globs of butter may pose a choking hazard.—
Sarah Scott,
Parents,
7 Mar. 2025
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“Chunk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chunk. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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