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whopping

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verb

variants or whapping
present participle of whop
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Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of whopping
Adjective
Instead, he’s struck out 41 times and hits a whopping .153, comfortably bottom of the barrel in the Dodgers lineup. Benjamin Royer, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2025 Then there’s the whopping 145% tariff on goods coming in from China that went into effect on April 2 and were paused as of this week. Jennifer Liu, CNBC, 14 May 2025 The multipurpose scrubber comes with a whopping seven-in-one hybrid design and includes a detachable handheld steam cleaner option. Nashia Baker, Architectural Digest, 12 May 2025 While Arizona saw the highest uptick at a whopping 84 percent increase, Tennessee and New Mexico also saw sizable jumps of 67 percent and 65 percent, respectively. Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for whopping
Recent Examples of Synonyms for whopping
Adjective
  • Tesla sales have experienced a huge international decline, leaving room for competitors to gain momentum.
    Charles Singh, USA Today, 16 May 2025
  • My stockpile of research was huge in relation to that.
    Nia Shumake, Essence, 15 May 2025
Verb
  • Elle was also seen whipping her hands in a circle to the music during the awards ceremony.
    Stephanie Wenger, People.com, 6 Jan. 2025
  • This instant camera captures little moments and big occasions on film, which feels a little more special than whipping out an iPhone.
    Malia Griggs, Glamour, 2 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Jared Harris is the best movie John ever, licking his lips and sucking his teeth; Aidan Quinn is the best movie Paul.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 5 Apr. 2025
  • Boston, Cleveland, and New York are licking their chops, ready to feast on a Bucks team missing its point guard, its bench leader, and its identity.
    Brian Sampson, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • With Trump’s Liberation Day tariffs, many countries had limited recourse for retaliation because the U.S. trade deficit on physical goods in nearly all nations is so enormous.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 5 May 2025
  • Finding the house was an enormous challenge for McBride and locations manager Kale Murphy; initial candidates weren’t distinct enough from the Gemstones’ other residences, and the search took so long McBride nearly called HBO to request a pause in production.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 5 May 2025
Verb
  • With their teeth bared in a frozen rictus grin, this couple appears to be hiding a darkness which we are left only to guess at.
    Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2025
  • My safety came down to something as simple as hiding my name.
    Ismat Ara, TIME, 15 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • In the spring of 2022, Russian forces trapped a large group of Ukrainians inside a gigantic steel factory called Azovstal, in southern Ukraine.
    Simon Shuster, Time, 16 May 2025
  • What all of these cases have in common is a truly gigantic deer, and then, sadly, lots of discord within the hunting community.
    Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 15 May 2025
Verb
  • The agency said gushes of water flooded downstream villages, catching the children who were fishing or doing laundry on a nearby river by surprise and also destroying agricultural equipment and killing livestock.
    Compiled by Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Resettlement groups motivated by Christian duty At least one person doing resettlement work in Charlotte wants lawmakers to make a greater effort to help refugees.
    Ryan Oehrli, Charlotte Observer, 14 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • At the time Venice had a tremendous amount of creative freedom because no one really cared much about what went on there.
    Courtney Wittich, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2025
  • There is a tremendous difference between getting the two countries to step back from the brink of war and facilitating a permanent solution to an 80-year dispute.
    Lisa Curtis, Foreign Affairs, 13 May 2025

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“Whopping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/whopping. Accessed 21 May. 2025.

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