chunks

noun

plural of chunk
1
as in loads
a considerable amount that new sports car must have cost a real chunk of change

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2
as in hunks
a small uneven mass a little chunk of dirt

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Recent Examples of chunks In 2023, researchers at MIT and elsewhere proposed that the bright white chunks scattered throughout Roman concrete—known as lime clasts and long dismissed as evidence of incomplete mixing—could help explain the material’s self-healing properties. — Sam MacDonald, Scientific American, 11 July 2026 Officials have said the pool most likely would need to be drained again for liner repairs after chunks of blue coating were seen floating at the surface. — Michael Kunzelman, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026 That happens anytime new chunks of tire are exposed to the air, meaning the particle may be nearly ubiquitous in car-heavy environments. — Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 9 July 2026 Lime clasts are tiny white chunks of limestone that were previously mistaken for evidence of sloppy mixing. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 9 July 2026 Trump has said the pool likely would need to be drained again for liner repairs after chunks of blue coating were seen floating at the surface. — Michael Kunzelman, Fortune, 9 July 2026 Trump gleefully tearing up large chunks of the White House and my hometown, trying to install a solipsistic arch, an exclusive golf course, a gargantuan ballroom and a garden of heroes — all to his Versailles-on-acid specifications. — Maureen Dowd, Mercury News, 4 July 2026 If desired, add wood chunks or foil packets of wood chips for light smoke flavor. — Staff, FOXNews.com, 3 July 2026 But photos showed that the blue sealant had started to peel away, leaving chunks floating on the surface, while algae growth turned the water green. — Marco Gacina, NBC news, 2 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chunks
  1. loads
  2. clumps
  3. tons
  4. wads
  5. piles
  6. globs
  7. dozens
  8. lumps
Noun
  • Engineering experts said the conversion project is complex and poses many challenges, which include making sure older buildings can safely support new loads and carving up office floors to accommodate residential living.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 10 July 2026
  • More crucially, Illinois’ grid is well-equipped to deliver the large electrical loads needed to process AI and other data.
    — Scott Cohn, CNBC, 9 July 2026
Definition of loads
Noun
  • Protostars are born when patches in vast molecular clouds cool and form clumps, collapsing under their gravity.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 3 July 2026
  • Otherwise, the excess moisture will cause the blueberries to freeze into clumps.
    — Martha Stewart, Martha Stewart, 3 July 2026
Definition of clumps
Noun
  • The European country imported more than 205 tons of medical cannabis in 2025, compared with about 62 tons in 2024, when cannabis reforms took effect, according to Germany’s Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices.
    — Dario Sabaghi, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
  • The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies has dispatched 36 tons of aid, including hygiene kits, cleaning supplies and water filters.
    — Durrie Bouscaren, NPR, 8 July 2026
Definition of tons
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  • 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
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  • Keep the area around your home free from debris, such as leaf piles, mulch, and grass clippings.
    — Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 July 2026
  • Whether Spatial surrounds its reggae-toasting host with piles of drums, disorienting electronic beats, or locomotive rock music, Scratch abides as crooner, barker, mystic, meditation coach — whatever the moment requires.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 8 July 2026
Definition of piles
Noun
  • Bathroom sink drains can become clogged from hair, globs of toothpaste, and soapy residue.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, The Spruce, 30 May 2026
  • Bieber’s face artfully dotted with globs of lotion.
    — Lucy Feldman, Time, 6 May 2026
Definition of globs
Noun
  • The data, compiled by ICE and processed by a UC Berkeley Law School initiative, sheds light on how the agency has operated in Sacramento, where dozens of arrests have taken place downtown and through administrative transfers at prisons.
    — Mathew Miranda July 9, Sacbee.com, 10 July 2026
  • The money will finance dozens of routine but essential items, such as a new roof, a 24-seat school bus and outrigger canoes that will be used by military veterans struggling with post-traumatic stress.
    — Andre Mouchard, Oc Register, 10 July 2026
Definition of dozens
Noun
  • Can turkey tail mushrooms shrink lipomas, the soft, fatty lumps that show up under the skin of countless aging dogs?
    — Samantha Agate, Charlotte Observer, 25 June 2026
  • Far from lumps of rock, the trojans, along with DJ and Dinkinesh (which is the Ethiopian name for the Lucy fossil), are windows into the past, and the storytellers of the Earth's most ancient history.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 19 June 2026
Definition of lumps

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