clods

plural of clod
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Recent Examples of clods Machines are shut down and shovels return, covering conduits with clods of soil. Steven Searcy, IEEE Spectrum, 31 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for clods
Noun
  • These include things like oats, coconut glycerin, and peanut butter in the lumps of coal biscuits, oats, peanut butter and bacon in the bac’n nutty biscuits, and chickpeas, tapioca flour and apples in the brushy sticks.
    Christine Persaud, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Cut into potatoes, and scoop the flesh into a food processor; process until no lumps remain, about 1 minute.
    Melinda Salchert, Southern Living, 15 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • None of these plants needs any attention other than to divide them when their clumps become overly dense.
    Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Keep drains clean and clear Fruit flies can breed in drains if there are clumps of food caught in your pipes.
    Emma Ashe, Southern Living, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • This recipe gets an extra bit of zip from chunks of pineapple.
    Mary Alice Russell, Southern Living, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Venture capital performance may be measured in ten-year chunks, but only an elite club of firms can claim to have stayed consistent—let alone functional—for anywhere close to that timeframe.
    Leo Schwartz, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Noah's sister-in-law Esther (Jackie Tohn), the Jewish character portrayed most insultingly last year, has thankfully been softened and refined, and has somehow become the lone voice of reason amongst a group of immature idiots.
    Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 23 Oct. 2025
  • To be funny while playing a character who’s sweet and endearing (even when calling his friends idiots) is a skill, and Bad Bunny has it.
    Rima Parikh, Vulture, 5 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Hanging ornaments with care can be one of the highlights of the holiday season, but untangling wads of string lights is far less enjoyable.
    Maggie Horton, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Everyone gathered around to help flip the meat, stuffing wads of lettuce wraps into their cheeks and washing it down with soju.
    Irene Yoo September 26, Literary Hub, 26 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The losers in this round are Toby and our not-so-perfect Tom, who struggles the entire episode, which is strange for a man who is that good-looking.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2025
  • And this time, unlike last year with the Steelers, his team walked away losers.
    Matt Schubert, Denver Post, 19 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • An extermination of the brutes in the Middle East, presided over by Obama’s successors, has been followed by a swift cancellation by Trumpian decree of the postracial age.
    Pankaj Mishra, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Some are slow and heavy brutes that have tons of health while others are slightly but deal more damage.
    Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 18 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The farm is home to goats, Holstein cows, potbellied and kune kune pigs, donkeys, sheep, rabbits, llamas, alpacas, guinea fowl, guinea pigs, geese, chickens, a Shetland pony, and a Shire horse.
    Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Dozens of unable-to-fly wild ducks and geese at a sanctuary in Washtenaw County's Salem Township, earlier ordered killed by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, have received a reprieve.
    Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 22 Oct. 2025

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“Clods.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clods. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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