whoppers

noun

plural of whopper
1
as in lies
a statement known by its maker to be untrue and made in order to deceive told a whopper to get out of jury duty

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2
as in whales
something that is unusually large and powerful a whopper of a fish that won first prize in the derby the season finale ended with a whopper of a cliffhanger

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Recent Examples of whoppers One of my favorite head coach whoppers. — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Oct. 2025 And then there were the epic flavor fails, including a couple of real whoppers. — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 17 Oct. 2025 From hyperloops to solar roofs to trillion-dollar savings from federal budget cuts by DOGE, Musk has developed a reputation for excessive boasts and telling outright whoppers. — Alan Ohnsman, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for whoppers
  1. lies
  2. whales
  3. tales
  4. giants
  5. stories
  6. monsters
  7. dinosaurs
  8. mammoths
Noun
  • When lies, grief and reality collapse into each other, Tian must choose whether to break the cycle.
    — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 30 July 2026
  • Art to me is a way to find beauty behind the lies and exaggerations.
    — Rob Salkowitz, Forbes.com, 26 July 2026
Definition of lies
Noun
  • One trip might involve spotting whales in a coastal fjord, while another centers on hiking through alpine wilderness or watching bears catch salmon.
    — Abby Price, Travel + Leisure, 30 July 2026
  • Alex Forrest, a volunteer drone pilot with the Organisation for the Rescue and Research of Cetaceans in Australia (ORRCA), recorded the moment on July 28 during the whales’ northbound migration.
    — Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 30 July 2026
Definition of whales
Noun
  • The writers of these biblical tales weren’t plagiarizing Homer, MacDonald says.
    — John Blake, CNN Money, 2 Aug. 2026
  • Some sixteen years later, pop Bildung abounds, thanks largely to online fan communities who can weave the most obscure ephemera into epic tales of redemption.
    — Mitch Therieau, New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of tales
Noun
  • They also aren’t convinced by big tech giants’ promises of economic benefits from the centers.
    — AJ Willingham, AJC.com, 30 July 2026
  • The scenes with the incredible Cyclops and later with the giants, the Laestrygonians, feel particularly impressive.
    — Nicole Russell, USA Today, 30 July 2026
Definition of giants
Noun
  • This move reflects a broader industry trend of re-evaluating AI integration, emphasizing that while AI creates abundance, unique human contributions like personal stories and opinions are increasingly valuable.
    — William Arruda, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
  • But then in the editing room, the two stories didn’t fit together.
    — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 2 Aug. 2026
Definition of stories
Noun
  • Over the last two seasons of Percy Jackson and the Olympians, the titular demigod (Walker Scobell) has faced off against a minotaur, sailed to the sea of monsters, been chased by Cerberus, and even magically transformed into a guinea pig.
    — Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 21 July 2026
  • With the franchise’s trademark blend of extreme gore and dark humor, the Evil Dead backstory centers on the ancient Book of the Dead that unleashes supernatural evil forces and twists victims into sadistic, shape-shifting, near-invincible monsters.
    — Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 21 July 2026
Definition of monsters
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  • Steve Brusatte is a paleontologist who hunts and writes about dinosaurs.
    — Big Think, Big Think, 31 July 2026
  • The collection is inspired by some of the museum's most iconic exhibits and features apparel and accessories for the whole family, with playful nods to everything from towering dinosaurs to tiny insects.
    — Casey DelBasso, ABC News, 30 July 2026
Definition of dinosaurs
Noun
  • These results raise some questions about how Ice Age hunter-gatherers interacted with wooly mammoths.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 30 July 2026
  • According to this theory, those now-extinct megafauna—the giant ground sloths and the giant beavers, the mastodons and mammoths, and even the lions and dire wolves—were relatively quickly hunted to extinction.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 June 2026
Definition of mammoths

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