thickish

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Adjective
  • Even at full sprint, the characters are moving at a relatively normal speed, with levels designed to be smaller, yet dense, to reduce the amount of backtracking and desperate ping-ponging all over the map.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2025
  • According to the Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2020-2025, a nutrient-dense diet is a healthy eating plan in which most of your nutritional needs are met by 85% of the calories consumed.
    Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 4 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • Card Case Speaking of only keeping the essentials on hand, this ultra-thin card case is an excellent replacement for a bulky, overstuffed wallet when traveling.
    Melony Forcier, Travel + Leisure, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Without synthetics to rely on for stretch and grip, Cottonique uses drawstrings, which could be considered fiddly and bulky, or too much of a trade-off, particularly for undergarments.
    Sophie Benson, Vogue, 30 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The film spoofs The Shining (1980), The Lost Boys (1987) and A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) with the blocky LEGO characters.
    Keith Langston, PEOPLE, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Meanwhile, British sportswear brand Lonsdale’s blocky logo on T-shirts unintentionally contained a Nazi reference.
    Steve Salter, CNN Money, 15 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Stylistically, these bulky sculptures are like many in the show, whether large or small — solid, blockish, refined but not delicate.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2021
  • Bold and blockish, but soft around the edges.
    Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Apr. 2021
Adjective
  • The thick artificial foliage is pre-lit with warm white LED bulbs spaced through the entire length of the 10-foot piece.
    Kate McGregor, Architectural Digest, 5 Nov. 2025
  • With more than 38,000 gallons of fuel on board the cargo flight bound for Hawaii, the crash created a massive ball of fire – punctuated by smaller explosions from flammable material on the ground – and sent a towering plume of thick black smoke into the sky.
    Karina Tsui, CNN Money, 5 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • Netflix launched in Poland in 2016 and quickly realized the territory – a gateway to CEE with a hefty talent base and a population of nearly 40 million – was a crucial one.
    Max Goldbart, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2025
  • As those costs come down, Amazon has earmarked hefty investments in cloud infrastructure to support AI workloads while simultaneously pushing out a flurry of AI services and tools across the company.
    Gabrielle Fonrouge,Annie Palmer,Frank Holland, CNBC, 4 Nov. 2025
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“Thickish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thickish. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.

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