as in loads
a considerable amount
has gobs of money
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Recent Examples of gobs
But the temporary arena is covering nearly the entirety of the White House’s South Lawn, where Marine One usually lands to ferry the president to out-of-town trips and gobs of kids scramble in the grass during the Easter Egg Roll every spring.
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Will Weissert,
Chicago Tribune,
11 June 2026
But the temporary arena is covering nearly the entirety of the White House's South Lawn, where Marine One usually lands to ferry the president to out-of-town trips and gobs of kids scramble in the grass during the Easter Egg Roll every spring.
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ABC News,
11 June 2026
The iPhone maker isn’t spending gobs of cash in the race to expand AI computing capacity, instead partnering with Google to power artificial intelligence features.
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Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
6 Mar. 2026
There are gobs of money to be made selling enterprise software, but dulling the impact of AI is also a useful feint.
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Josh Tyrangiel,
The Atlantic,
10 Feb. 2026
Its 20 rooms encompass nearly 8,500 square feet of living space and include five bedrooms, six full bathrooms, one half-bathroom, two laundry rooms, three stairways, two breakfast bars and gobs of closet space.
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Mike Klingaman,
Baltimore Sun,
3 Feb. 2026
Other actors with Abdul-Mateen’s wide smile, soft voice, and broad shoulders may have just leaned on their looks to cover up their character’s least-likable moments — as if gobs of charm in one scene can erase the ugliness glimpsed in others.
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Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
27 Jan. 2026
Our lament about our father’s painful passing in Florida — where there are gobs of old people but no MAID laws to make death more peaceful — morphed into an unexpected series of stories on same.
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Teri Sforza,
Oc Register,
9 Jan. 2026
This may cause gobs of wet clay to fly sideways into the hair of other moviegoers.
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Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
22 Dec. 2025
Will Weissert,
Chicago Tribune,
11 June 2026
But the temporary arena is covering nearly the entirety of the White House's South Lawn, where Marine One usually lands to ferry the president to out-of-town trips and gobs of kids scramble in the grass during the Easter Egg Roll every spring.
—
ABC News,
11 June 2026
The iPhone maker isn’t spending gobs of cash in the race to expand AI computing capacity, instead partnering with Google to power artificial intelligence features.
—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
6 Mar. 2026
There are gobs of money to be made selling enterprise software, but dulling the impact of AI is also a useful feint.
—
Josh Tyrangiel,
The Atlantic,
10 Feb. 2026
Its 20 rooms encompass nearly 8,500 square feet of living space and include five bedrooms, six full bathrooms, one half-bathroom, two laundry rooms, three stairways, two breakfast bars and gobs of closet space.
—
Mike Klingaman,
Baltimore Sun,
3 Feb. 2026
Other actors with Abdul-Mateen’s wide smile, soft voice, and broad shoulders may have just leaned on their looks to cover up their character’s least-likable moments — as if gobs of charm in one scene can erase the ugliness glimpsed in others.
—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
27 Jan. 2026
Our lament about our father’s painful passing in Florida — where there are gobs of old people but no MAID laws to make death more peaceful — morphed into an unexpected series of stories on same.
—
Teri Sforza,
Oc Register,
9 Jan. 2026
This may cause gobs of wet clay to fly sideways into the hair of other moviegoers.
—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
22 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gobs
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Lithium batteries often maintain more consistent performance throughout their charge cycle, a trait that may be noticeable when tackling hills or carrying heavier loads.
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This leads to higher fungal loads.
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So far this year, 17 tons of illicit drugs, mostly cocaine, have been seized in the Pacific region – more than three times the total across the whole of last year, according to the Australian Federal Police.
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El Salvador President Nayib Bukele said 300 rescuers and paramedics, along with 50 tons of equipment, medicines and essential supplies, were ready to depart for Caracas.
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On a Monday evening in Cranford, dozens of families gather around a 40-foot-TV to teach their children a lesson about screens.
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The city's Department of Building and Safety opened the probe on June 17, the same day a fire tore through dozens of solar panels on the roof of the 500,000-square-foot cold storage warehouse in Boyle Heights.
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The bulk of this final season has the team dealing with this massive storm that’s created a slew of setbacks at a make-or-break moment for the restaurant.
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Goodfellas has posted a slew of international deals for Spanish directorial duo Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi’s Cannes breakout La Bola Negra.
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At the end of the first half of this double episode, Elizabeth Gaines (Linda Purl), advisor to the Vice President, is shot by sniper Tom Walker (Chris Chalk), Brody's fellow POW—and the VP and a bunch of other important people are put in a bunker along with Brody, who plans to blow them all up.
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Her must-have product out of the bunch is this plumping and firming serum.
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Sugar is at the forensic lab with the corpse of a man who looks an awful lot like Ji Moon but isn’t Ji Moon (courtesy of Shea Whigham as Tom Flybjerg).
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The tablets were labeled with more than two dozen lot numbers and expiration dates ranging from July 2026 to December 2028.
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Some politicians endorsed it as a move to stop corporate landlords from being able to outbid families, and buying up large chunks of local housing markets with cash offers.
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Foreman had infamously had chunks of his body cut and carved out before he was killed.
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Black employed Epstein has a wealth management adviser, but also allegedly confided in him about personal matters, including extramarital affairs that ended in nondisclosure agreements.
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There was a wealth of content on show aiming to prove that, despite numerous challenges, the genre remains towering.
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“Gobs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gobs. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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