as in giant
unusually large
a jumbo jet
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as in whale
something that is unusually large and powerful
the winner in the contest for biggest pumpkin was a jumbo that weighed in at over a thousand pounds
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Recent Examples of jumbo
Ranyechi Udemezue, Vogue, 27 Feb. 2026
Finance of America offers a wider-than-normal range of loans, including HECMs, proprietary jumbo reverse mortgages, and a reverse second mortgage.
—Kelsey Neubauer, CNBC, 21 Feb. 2026
Gege Reed, Louisville Courier Journal, 16 Dec. 2025
What's unique about this credit union, though, is that anyone can join by opening a savings account with a small deposit, giving you immediate access to the lender's rate advantages and extensive loan options, which span conventional, adjustable-rate, jumbo, FHA, VA and USDA products.
—Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 18 Nov. 2025
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Adjective
At Annie’s, models’ hair was left down and accessorised with jumbo flower clips.
—Ranyechi Udemezue, Vogue, 27 Feb. 2026
Finance of America offers a wider-than-normal range of loans, including HECMs, proprietary jumbo reverse mortgages, and a reverse second mortgage.
—Kelsey Neubauer, CNBC, 21 Feb. 2026
Noun
Add twin petite cold-water lobster tails or two jumbo lump crab cakes for an additional $39, 'Oscar style' crab for an additional $12, lobster macaroni shells and cheese for an additional $19.
—Gege Reed, Louisville Courier Journal, 16 Dec. 2025
What's unique about this credit union, though, is that anyone can join by opening a savings account with a small deposit, giving you immediate access to the lender's rate advantages and extensive loan options, which span conventional, adjustable-rate, jumbo, FHA, VA and USDA products.
—Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 18 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for jumbo
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Elsewhere, German autos giant BMW said Thursday that net profit for 2025 exceeded 7 billion euros, slightly above the consensus estimate compiled by LSEG.—
Chloe Taylor,Holly Ellyatt,
CNBC,
12 Mar. 2026
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Walking among the colorful, striped geological layers feels like stepping inside a giant painting made by nature itself.—
Karthika Gupta,
Travel + Leisure,
11 Mar. 2026
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The pair spent their childhood summers camping here, collecting whale bones and learning from their father about regional folklore, including tales from the nearby whaling station at Bahía del Águila, which processed 4,000 cetaceans between 1906 and 1920.—
Mark Johanson,
Outside,
14 Mar. 2026
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Around the world whale and dolphin captivity is being phased out and animals are stuck to suffer in limbo.—
Valerie Greene,
The Orlando Sentinel,
14 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Inside, there’s a long line of people waiting to take a photo under a gigantic Oscar.—
Rachel Handler,
Vulture,
16 Mar. 2026
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The shed also comes in an unpainted light wood shade, giving you and any little ones a gigantic (and quite literal) blank canvas with which to work.—
Natalia Gonzalez Blanco Serrano,
The Spruce,
15 Mar. 2026
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Now there's a pit to dig for fossils; a paleontological tent complete with a projector; dinosaur video games; sensory craft tables; dinosaur movies; fossils, and all sorts of memorabilia.—
Megan Shinn,
CBS News,
15 Mar. 2026
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In 2016, the Hilton took over and revamped it with colonial Art Deco stylings and a random faux dinosaur skeleton that divided opinions.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
14 Mar. 2026
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The horn sounded as the ball approached the hoop, marking the second huge shot from Bradley on an otherwise quiet night for the senior guard.—
Blair Kerkhoff,
Kansas City Star,
14 Mar. 2026
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Geopolitics aside, this news is a huge deal for the BCIs in general.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Mar. 2026
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Rather than lean on typical monster movies and slasher horror that can always make bank in the movie theater, the biggest horror properties on TV are all across the map.—
Brian Welk,
IndieWire,
13 Mar. 2026
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The Knicks, shorthanded without Karl-Anthony Towns and Josh Hart, didn’t let them — and a monster performance from Mitchell Robinson helped punch a 101-92 victory over the worst team in basketball on Friday night.—
Kristian Winfield,
New York Daily News,
13 Mar. 2026
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And so, not far from Tau Ceti, an enormous alien spacecraft looms into view.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
13 Mar. 2026
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Indeed, the birth of this enormous sweeping bar may have initially concentrated gas to help trigger star formation and then propel stars outward, the researchers suggested.—
Charles Q. Choi,
Space.com,
12 Mar. 2026
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Surviving Earth explores the world 450M years ago featuring giant sea scorpions, mammoths and sabertooths.—
Peter White,
Deadline,
12 Mar. 2026
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Unlike typical mice with short gray-brown coats, these woolly mice have long dirty-blond hair that mimics the shaggy fur that helped protect mammoths from the Arctic cold.—
Rob Stein,
NPR,
4 Mar. 2026
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“Jumbo.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jumbo. Accessed 18 Mar. 2026.
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