as in lump
a big clumsy often slow-witted person
the team recruited a 6 foot, 5 inch hulk to play offensive tackle
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Recent Examples of hulk
Because the park was damaged and is surrounded by the hulks of once-beloved homes.
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Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2025
Like the ghostly hulk of the Titanic below the surface of the sea, Northbrook Court is a quiet and cavernous relic — at the bottom of the retail food chain.
—David Petitti, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2025
The machine that housed her father was in the basement, a black, solid hulk with blinking lights that drew a lot of power.
—Big Think, 31 Mar. 2025
Because the park was damaged and is surrounded by the hulks of once-beloved homes.
—Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2025
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Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2025
Like the ghostly hulk of the Titanic below the surface of the sea, Northbrook Court is a quiet and cavernous relic — at the bottom of the retail food chain.
—David Petitti, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2025
The machine that housed her father was in the basement, a black, solid hulk with blinking lights that drew a lot of power.
—Big Think, 31 Mar. 2025
Because the park was damaged and is surrounded by the hulks of once-beloved homes.
—Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hulk
Noun
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One day while exercising, a healthy 59-year-old semi-retiree felt a lump in his abdomen.—
Steve Vernon,
Forbes.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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In 2021, the singer underwent emergency surgery in Miami after finding lumps in her breasts.—
Vanessa Etienne,
People.com,
6 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Legislative appropriations committees could — and did — secretly decide which bills would reach the floors of both houses and just announce the winners and losers without explanation.—
Dan Walters,
Mercury News,
15 Aug. 2025
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With existing sanctions on Russia and potentially new ones at stake, the eventual outcome of the Trump-Putin summit will create winners and losers in the energy space.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
15 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Temuera Morrison plays a terrific villain as the murderous King Kahekili.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
16 Aug. 2025
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Year: 2009 Director: Tony Scott Runtime: 1h 44m A remake of the 1974 subway-hijack thriller is inferior in just about every way, particularly with its villain, played by a way-too-jacked-up John Travolta.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
15 Aug. 2025
Noun
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But Madsen was born to be the Lee Marvin of the 1990s — the kind of laconic brute who spoke softly and carried a sharp straight-razor.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
3 July 2025
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The novel is often rhapsodic about its alpha brutes, but, toward the end, Frey turns the tables.—
Katy Waldman,
New Yorker,
17 June 2025
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So Bull does what any sensible, testicle-loving mutt would do.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
13 Aug. 2025
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The phrase has become shorthand for a kind of national inferiority syndrome—a sense that Brazil, despite its grand ambitions and global flair, thinks of itself as a mutt trying to hang with pedigrees.—
Shannon Sims,
New Yorker,
30 July 2025
Noun
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The previous version of the immersive attraction brought guests face to face with the terrifying flickering TV screen, the menacing beast from beyond, and the pool filled with floating corpses.—
Simon Thompson,
Forbes.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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Just below the horizon, but headed our way, is the rough beast John Lithgow [in HBO’s upcoming Harry Potter TV series], his hour come round at last.—
James Hibberd,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Carnival Midway’s cast of trapeze artists, aerialists, jugglers and clowns perform every hour on the half hour, starting at 1:30 p.m. (on weekends, the show kicks off at 11:30a.m.).—
Alex Schechter,
Travel + Leisure,
14 Aug. 2025
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There’s a patient, dressed as a clown, who has his arm drilled into.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
7 Aug. 2025
Noun
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So are the deer, turkeys, skunks, crickets, spiders, ticks, bats, dragonflies, and ospreys.—
Eric Lach,
New Yorker,
18 Aug. 2025
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The Diggers passed out thousands of hits of Owsley Stanley’s finest and served turkey sandwiches, which Stanley had also contributed.—
Dennis McNally,
Rolling Stone,
7 Aug. 2025
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“Hulk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hulk. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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