as in chunk
a small uneven mass
dropped a nubble of clay on the floor of the pottery
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Noun
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Americans saw large chunks of their wallets get eaten up by soaring gas prices in March; however, consumers still had money left in the tank to spend elsewhere.—
Alicia Wallace,
CNN Money,
21 Apr. 2026 -
Offensive tackle Left tackle Ickey Ekwonu is on the final year of his contract and will miss at least a chunk of 2026 after sustaining a significant knee injury at the end of last year.—
Alex Zietlow
April 21,
Charlotte Observer,
21 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Then, tumble dry on low heat with clean tennis balls or dryer balls to break up clumps and restore fluffiness.—
Katie Cloyd,
Martha Stewart,
22 Apr. 2026
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This ingredient outmasses the full sum total of all normal matter by about a 5-to-1 ratio, clumps and clusters like (slow-moving) matter does, but doesn’t interact with normal matter or light in any measurable way.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
21 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Another, from 2009, is dominated by the profile of what appears to be a guard dog gripping a black hunk of something unidentifiable.—
Ben Davis,
The New York Review of Books,
25 Apr. 2026
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Your home health guy is a hunk.—
Andrea Lavinthal,
PEOPLE,
22 Apr. 2026
Noun
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This was long before Mayor Giuliani got his shorts in a wad about Ofili’s The Holy Virgin Mary, part of a 1999 group show at the Brooklyn Museum displaying art owned by the advertising mogul Charles Saatchi.—
Jerry Saltz,
Vulture,
20 Apr. 2026
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Cubans have long been accustomed to shopping with wads of cash stuffed into bags after compounding bouts of soaring inflation.—
Prashant Rao,
semafor.com,
8 Apr. 2026
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Over Christmas, while trying to pinpoint where the discomfort was really coming from, Warner discovered a lump.—
Ashley Vega,
PEOPLE,
20 Apr. 2026
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Castaways Raw Bar & Grill is another local favorite, which regularly draws crowds with its seafood mac-n-cheese and jumbo lump crab cakes.—
Kristy Tolley,
Travel + Leisure,
17 Apr. 2026
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Inspired by both pre-Columbian cultures and modern scientific theories, Jensen made energetic diagrams of shapes, symbols, and numbers in loud complementary colors, using thick globs of paint; the results generate a fascinating friction.—
Brian Seibert,
New Yorker,
6 Feb. 2026
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With just a pea-size glob of scat, biologists can genetically decode which individual whale produced the sample.—
Kelso Harper,
Scientific American,
16 Dec. 2025
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The Wallace storage cabinet can be customized with 10 knob options that range from polished nickel to aged brass.—
Yelena Moroz Alpert,
Architectural Digest,
16 Apr. 2026
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Swapping cabinet knobs, drawer pulls and towel hooks is a fast way to modernize the space.—
Lauren Jarvis-Gibson,
Sacbee.com,
13 Apr. 2026
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“Nubble.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nubble. Accessed 26 Apr. 2026.
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