gobs

plural of gob

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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. ABC News, 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. Will Weissert, Chicago Tribune, 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
Noun
  • The size and specialized nature of these loads can also create opportunities for carriers to take on new customers and routes.
    Kevin Williams, CNBC, 5 Sep. 2026
  • Faster speeds generally mean a compromise in quality, multi-color 3D printers often waste some filament, and higher volume loads usually demand more hardware.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 5 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • This time, a half-dozen states are going before Super Tuesday and some of them have tons of delegates.
    Nicholas Wu, semafor.com, 16 Sep. 2026
  • The league doesn’t want teams to add a ton of years to free-agent contracts to circumvent the cap.
    Jim Bowden, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • The charges are in addition to dozens of previous criminal charges brought against the Tates filed by Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Over 760,000 teenagers in dozens of countries took the Programme for International Student Assessment last year.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 10 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Such findings went on to inspire a slew of companies offering transfusions of plasma from young donors.
    Venki Ramakrishnan, Scientific American, 15 Sep. 2026
  • In the meantime, the studio released a slew of photos from the show.
    Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • The film concerns a bus full of French high-school seniors on a trip to Pompeii, where the long gaze of history meets their hormonal entanglements and a bunch of Freudian desire.
    Joe Reid, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Everything was very new to me about the process of sitting with a bunch of brilliant writers.
    Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • The nearly half-acre lot includes a deck with a hot tub and a patio above the attached garage.
    The Week US, TheWeek, 15 Sep. 2026
  • As the only Stark daughter, her lot in life was to marry a lord and have children.
    Rafael Motamayor, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Those gains, of course, allowed the club to partially circumnavigate La Liga’s spending controls so, even as the club lops off chunks of value from the asset each year, the Byzantine structure of it all has certainly served a purpose.
    Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
  • The skins cling like wet T-shirts to the filling beneath, with each plump bundle nearly bursting with big, discernible chunks of shrimp and ground pork.
    Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • His fortune has also swelled thanks to gains from his private investment firm DFO Management—which manages his wealth and capital—and invests in public stocks, private companies, real estate, and liquid corporate credit.
    Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2026
  • The tax-aware long-short SMA trade became the hottest product in wealth management, and the two biggest custodians are actively shutting it down for new advisor allocations.
    Josh Brown,Sean Russo, CNBC, 14 Sep. 2026

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