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Recent Examples of whopper Well, Trump just handed him a whopper of a project: Save TikTok. Cate Martel, The Hill, 7 Feb. 2025 Weighing in at 4 pounds and 8 ounces, Costco’s strawberry streusel cheesecake is a whopper—with a price tag to match. Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 8 Apr. 2025 And then there was that whopper of a cliffhanger that saw a mysterious couple jumping into the pond in the 1970s and Sam (Rob Stewart) mirroring Elliot from the show's pilot in the present day. Breanne L. Heldman, People.com, 8 Mar. 2025 The executive order begins with a whopper of a falsehood: that the United States has an inadequate supply of energy. Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 3 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for whopper
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Noun
  • Stock photo: A couple lie inside of a campervan side by side.
    Maria Morava, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 June 2025
  • The lie corporate America has told for too long is that culture is soft.
    Greg Dolan, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
Noun
  • Photo by Ian Maule/Getty Images Mexico has gone without loss thus far in the 2025 Gold Cup, though things have been far from perfect for the CONCACAF giants, as Mexico narrowly defeated the Dominican Republic 3-2 in its Gold Cup opener.
    Kilty Cleary, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 June 2025
  • The retail giant has also been working to upgrade its conversational AI tool, which allows employees to ask questions about store layout, upcoming shifts and more.
    Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • Where Bailey lands is probably going to tell the tale of his career.
    Mike Vorkunov, New York Times, 26 June 2025
  • The page lists half a dozen directorial projects Ford is attached to, including ferry disaster tragedy Wahine out of New Zealand, fantasy tale The King of Light – The Order of the Dark Gods, and comedy Food Fight.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 24 June 2025
Noun
  • But staff say whales have been spotted in the area, with humpbacks finally making a return after a 25-year absence.
    Zoe Baillargeon, Travel + Leisure, 28 June 2025
  • The House Natural Resources Committee has also suggested weakening the Marine Mammal Protection Act with an apparent intent to unravel protections for species like the North Atlantic right whale and the Gulf of Mexico Rice’s whale.
    Christine Peterson, Vox, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • However, Walters' incredible career is only part of her story.
    Sean Keane, ABC News, 23 June 2025
  • The Kansas City Current co-owner, 29, shared an Instagram story on Sunday, June 22, showing her in a leopard print swimsuit and sunglasses, relaxing in the paddling pool section of a large inflatable slide.
    Clare Fisher, People.com, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • The monster season Soto gave the Yankees last year, leading them to the World Series, is what the Padres expected from him.
    Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 June 2025
  • Today, that monster lives on, not in steel and speakers, but in light.
    Noah Eckstein, HollywoodReporter, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • Stunning pictures show a female baby mammoth, dating back over 130,000 years, recently being dissected by Russian scientists.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 8 Apr. 2025
  • In March 2025, Colossal unveiled its woolly mouse, engineered to carry genes for the mammoth's characteristic thick, golden coat and accelerated fat metabolism.
    Nia Bowers, USA Today, 24 May 2025
Noun
  • But finding small dinosaurs like this is much rarer, partly because they’re overlooked by fossil hunters searching for bigger, more impressive dinosaurs and partly because smaller skeletons are more likely to be ripped apart by predators and scavengers.
    Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 25 June 2025
  • In the chaotic aftermath of the strike, roughly 75 percent of all species worldwide went extinct, including the non-avian dinosaurs.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 June 2025

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