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Recent Examples of glob 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 When thinking about mold in the home, the image of fuzzy green globs clinging to old bread may come to mind. Bridget Reed Morawski, Architectural Digest, 14 Jan. 2025 At the end of the first song, a small red glob rained down from above. Joe Lynch, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019 Besides plants and flowers, a dinosaur tail, a crab, a hell ant, a spider mom and her young, and a firefly have been found entombed in globs of tree resin. Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 27 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for glob
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Noun
  • The sudden explosion, fueled by ignition of methane propellant, created a huge fireball, billowing clouds of smoke and brilliant arcs of flaming debris shooting out like burning chunks of lava in a volcanic eruption.
    William Harwood, CBS News, 19 June 2025
  • Retail sales, which comprise a sizable chunk of overall spending, dropped sharply last month as car purchases plummeted.
    Bryan Mena, CNN Money, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • Her hair is of textured gold and crowned with blue, green and purple enamel, accented by old European-cut diamonds and gold beads.
    Anthony DeMarco, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
  • In his hands, statement pieces—like this necklace with Baoulé fragments, ancient amber beads, and diamonds—draw attention not for their carat weight but for their striking composition.
    Jill Newman, Robb Report, 12 June 2025
Noun
  • That force was another deer lying half hidden in a sparse clump of evergreen scrub.
    Jim Carmichel, Outdoor Life, 5 June 2025
  • Probably the best time to divide daylily clumps is after flowering.
    Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 17 May 2025
Noun
  • Could alien microbes frolic in lakes of boiling acid or frigid liquid methane, or float in water droplets in Venus’ upper atmosphere?
    Daniel Apai, Space.com, 15 June 2025
  • Vikings defensive coordinator Brian Flores and the team’s personnel department had identified him as a versatile player who would squeeze every droplet of potential out of his career.
    Alec Lewis, New York Times, 19 May 2025
Noun
  • Pondering hard questions about earning Rob Manfred’s hunk of metal is what many MLB teams’ top leaders do at this time of the year, what with the season nearly half done and both the All-Star break and the July 30 trade deadline looming.
    Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 June 2025
  • The two both appeared in Francis Ford Coppola's adaptation of S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders, an early '80s hit featuring an avalanche of heartthrob hunks.
    Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 15 June 2025
Noun
  • The candles have a realistic look since they are covered in real wax and even feature wax drips near the flame.
    Maya Handelsman, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 June 2025
  • That equates to the sound of your refrigerator or a drip coffee maker, Tract officials said.
    Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 11 June 2025
Noun
  • When the victim initially resisted, the suspect kicked and punched him and forcibly grabbed a wad of cash from the vehicle, police said.
    Roni Jacobson, New York Daily News, 5 June 2025
  • The first few sections of the article describe a dinner at an upscale Lower East Side restaurant, during which Jordan, then 28, sticks a wad of chewing gum under the table as revenge for being made to wait too long at the host station.
    Zak Cheney-Rice, Vulture, 2 June 2025
Noun
  • One investor alleges Coinbase delayed the breach disclosure to avoid a stock drop.
    Jennifer Jolly, USA Today, 18 June 2025
  • The drop will go live Tuesday (June 17) at liquiddeath.com/ozzy, with each DNA can priced at $450.
    Jessica Lynch, Billboard, 18 June 2025

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“Glob.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/glob. Accessed 26 Jun. 2025.

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