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Recent Examples of gobbet New York City schools had stopped serving the savory poultry gobbets after people found foreign objects inside them. Colin Moynihan, New York Times, 28 June 2023 In temperatures exceeding 800 Celsius (1,472 Fahrenheit), gobbets of fluid metal splashed and contaminated the church’s stonework throughout. Feargus O'Sullivan, WIRED, 1 Aug. 2019 Afterlife with Archie cheerfully drops bloody gobbets of doom on the carefree world of Riverdale. Noah Berlatsky, The Verge, 5 Dec. 2018 But of real emotional value, this season has great gobbets. Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 12 Feb. 2018 The name of the sender was blacked out, but the content of the email took the committee’s entire threadbare claim to any legitimacy at all and fed bloody gobbets of that claim to the wolverines. Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 13 Sep. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gobbet
Noun
  • Cut hard cheeses in cubes or bite-size chunks, while leave softer cheeses and logs whole.
    Catharine Kaufman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Medicare premiums are expected to rise by a near record dollar amount next year and eat a chunk of the Social Security cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) older Americans may receive.
    Medora Lee, USA Today, 12 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • And Prince William would have been forgiven for blushing when Kate pointedly replied that the poster had in fact shown the TV hunk from a famous Levi advert.
    Jack Royston, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Let’s Bring Back Fondue Night When fondue pots were at the height of their popularity in the 1970s, everyone would gather around the table in their house clogs and bell bottoms with skewers ready to dip into melty cheese, smooth chocolate, and even piping-hot oil (for cooking small hunks of meat).
    Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Later that night, a man handed the young woman a wad of cash.
    Avery Schmitz, CNN Money, 29 Sep. 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
  • Whichever the case, the researchers are now curious to discover more characteristics of the intriguing object, including determining whether dark matter can exist in small clumps without stars.
    Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The question has always been, how small can clumps of cold dark matter become?
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Then bit my own lips hard until the painful lump went away.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025
  • But when the couple's teenage son washed the lump of material under the garden tap, the family realized there were gold coins present.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Then Domokos and the chief engineer of the model spotted a glob of stray glue clinging to one of its vertices.
    Elise Cutts, Wired News, 10 Aug. 2025
  • Drink options include the Green Dread – a bright green gin concoction served from a beaker – and the Bloodsucker, a rum and blackberry liqueur drink served with a dollop of dark red jello meant to look like a glob of blood.
    Bailey Schulz, USA Today, 5 Aug. 2025

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“Gobbet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gobbet. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.

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