as in ton
a considerable amount
visitors to the theme park will have a potful of fun
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Recent Examples of potful
His parents flew to visit and make potfuls of soup.
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Pedro Moura, latimes.com, 24 July 2017
Yerba and her colleagues melted gummies by the potful, dribbling the goo into glass cases to create color gradients and splotchy patterns.
—Margaret Rhodes, WIRED, 27 Apr. 2015
Pedro Moura, latimes.com, 24 July 2017
Yerba and her colleagues melted gummies by the potful, dribbling the goo into glass cases to create color gradients and splotchy patterns.
—Margaret Rhodes, WIRED, 27 Apr. 2015
Recent Examples of Synonyms for potful
Noun
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Instead there is much more Raimi-esque bleak humor, defenestration, a ton of bugs, and a frustrating plethora of clichés.—
Gregory Nussen,
Deadline,
16 Apr. 2026
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Driving the Prius was certainly fun, with a ton of power.—
Marc D. Grasso,
Boston Herald,
16 Apr. 2026
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As trucks roared up the landfill and dumped fresh loads of trash, adults and children alike rushed forward, gathering beneath cascading avalanches of waste to grab anything of value.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
15 Apr. 2026
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The 37-year-old is aging like fine wine, averaging nearly 26 points per game for the Houston Rockets while shouldering one of the heaviest minutes loads in the league.—
Joe Vardon,
New York Times,
12 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The college has so far bought up and started renovating more than a dozen buildings downtown; the college’s students will be the ones doing this work.—
Emma Green,
New Yorker,
17 Apr. 2026
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Homeowner Maha Amin moved three dozen sandbags from the trunk of her car to her driveway Thursday, bracing for more flooding in Des Plaines.—
Madeline King,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The Warriors endured a slew of injuries – including losing Curry for more than two months until his recent return – during what was only their second losing season (37-45) in their 12 under Coach Steve Kerr.—
Janis Carr,
Oc Register,
16 Apr. 2026
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The video featured a slew of top talent that Ellison and his execs are in business with, including by Tom Cruise, Timothée Chalamet, Sherry Lansing, Gina Prince-Bythewood, James Cameron, Chris Pratt and Will Smith.—
Pamela McClintock,
HollywoodReporter,
16 Apr. 2026
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Instead of committing a massive chunk of capital to a single trade right out of the gate, separating your entries, and even spreading them across different expirations on the same stock, is a fantastic way to mitigate concentration risk.—
Nishant Pant,
CNBC,
14 Apr. 2026
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The notion of the swaggering state swallowing a chunk of its resistant neighbor is completely far-fetched.—
Mark Z. Barabak,
Mercury News,
14 Apr. 2026
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The situation has caused a pile-on of speculation and allegations—including from some of its competitors—that the company is purposely degrading performance owing to a lack of compute capacity.—
Beatrice Nolan,
Fortune,
14 Apr. 2026
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Workers are now combing through the remaining salt pile for other human remains, and a homicide investigation is underway.—
Danielle Parker,
CBS News,
14 Apr. 2026
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The reptile guys are all just a bunch of normal schmucks looking to go find snakes.—
Stephen Underwood,
Hartford Courant,
16 Apr. 2026
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The squads have scrimmaged each other a bunch — and even have some connective tissue in Brandt Bronico, who is now with CLTFC but played for the Independence for a time — but never in a real setting like this one.—
Alex Zietlow,
Charlotte Observer,
16 Apr. 2026
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After avoiding a strike with a last-minute deal, the Los Angeles School District is turning to state officials for help funding its new contracts with the unions representing 70,000 of its workers.—
Tom Wait,
CBS News,
16 Apr. 2026
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The female singers particularly knocked it out of the ballpark; both deserve record deals or Broadway roles.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
15 Apr. 2026
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“Potful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/potful. Accessed 20 Apr. 2026.
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