gobs

noun

plural of gob
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. — 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
  1. loads
  2. ton
  3. dozen
  4. slew
  5. bunch
  6. lot
  7. chunk
  8. wealth
Noun
  • The elasticity of the cloud isn’t available in an air-gapped on-premise environment; hence, the size needs to account for the peak loads.
    — Karan Alang, Forbes.com, 6 Nov. 2026
  • PlusAI is a company working on autonomous trucking solutions with Nvidia, and the sand was in the trailers to simulate freight loads.
    — Nick Indge, ArsTechnica, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of loads
Noun
  • The machine uses a Volvo Penta electric driveline and is rated to lay up to 551 US tons (500 tonnes) of asphalt per hour without producing exhaust emissions at the work site.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 11 Nov. 2026
  • The combined weight of each transport is approximately 800,000 pounds (400 tons), which will be offloaded from the NIPSCO’s rail spur in Valparaiso.
    — Jim Masters, Chicago Tribune, 10 Nov. 2026
Definition of ton
Noun
  • About a dozen pay-raise charter amendments have failed since the 1960s.
    — Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 4 Nov. 2026
  • Davis announced plans to retire in July 2025, setting off a frenzied dash of more than a dozen candidates to represent one of America’s bluest congressional districts.
    — Gregory Royal Pratt, Chicago Tribune, 4 Nov. 2026
Definition of dozen
Noun
  • Smedley makes knitwear for a slew of luxury brands, and also collaborates closely with Grace Wales Bonner, Hermès’ new menswear designer.
    — Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 10 Nov. 2026
  • In 2025, amid a slew of efforts to monitor trains, educate teens, and go after social media posts showing off subway surfers, six people were injured and five died while riding on top of subway trains.
    — Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 10 Nov. 2026
Definition of slew
Noun
  • From there, launderers want to move the money across networks like Ethereum to Bitcoin then pull it from a mixed pool with a bunch of other people's assets.
    — Cooper Katz McKim, NPR, 6 Nov. 2026
  • Someone who’s experiencing homelessness generally has a whole bunch of stuff.
    — Jessica Tzikas, Sun Sentinel, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of bunch
Noun
  • An empty lot at Northeast 17th Court and Andrews Avenue is set to become the future home of a three-story, 76-unit affordable housing apartment building developed by Covenant House.
    — Ted Scouten, CBS News, 11 Nov. 2026
  • Paramount has re-upped its production deal with one of the Melrose Avenue lot’s cornerstone producers, Temple Hill.
    — Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 10 Nov. 2026
Definition of lot
Noun
  • That group and other environmental organizations have also argued the chunk of the Sacramento Valley that could soon be flooded is composed of rich oak woodland habitat occupied by an untold number of wildlife species.
    — Andrew Graham, Sacbee.com, 5 Nov. 2026
  • Chiefs offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy spent a good chunk of his weekly visit with reporters detailing breakdowns that led to last weekend’s crushing loss at Denver.
    — Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of chunk
Noun
  • This is a one-time, 5% tax on the wealth of California billionaires.
    — Ben Paviour, Sacbee.com, 3 Nov. 2026
  • The One Big Beautiful Bill eliminated the estate tax, which applies to the wealth of large estates.
    — Jack Harvel, Kansas City Star, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of wealth

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“Gobs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gobs. Accessed 12 Nov. 2026.

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