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whoppers

noun

plural of whopper

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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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

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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

In a scene where Odysseus and his crew come into contact with the Laestrygonians, a tribe of man-eating giants, Dalton, who‘s four and a half feet tall, doubled for Damon.

— Anthony Solorzano, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2026
Fabrizio Romano confirms the final decision rests with Rodri, with both Spanish giants prepared to offer similar transfer fees.

— Tom Sanderson, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 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

But Kova is shocked to discover her sweetheart taking up with someone new, who may be linked to the monsters dragging Stormwatch’s inhabitants into the ocean.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Aug. 2026
For additional context, the war against the Locust kicks off only a few weeks after the 79-year conflict between human factions known as the Pendulum Wars, which explains why the COG wasn't in the best of conditions when the monsters attacked.

— Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 2 Aug. 2026

Definition of monsters

Noun

Steven Spielberg first brought to life the pages of Michael Crichton’s novel about a disastrous attempt to create a theme park with dinosaurs.

— Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 6 Aug. 2026
So, yes, there’s a reason most of us are right handed and no, dinosaurs have never actually spit venom.

— Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 6 Aug. 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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