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as in ton
a considerable amount
that new sports car must have cost a real chunk of change
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Recent Examples of chunk
The movie feels like such a fun stoner comedy horror for good chunk of it.
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Glenn Garner, Deadline, 6 Dec. 2024
The band spent a good chunk of 2024 on the road in the lead-up to the release of the album on their Music of the Spheres world tour.
—Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 6 Dec. 2024
Republicans still don’t understand Trump… Over and over again, Trump’s aides and adversaries alike kept returning to the fact that a huge chunk of the GOP universe started with an immovable and immutable affinity for Trump.
—Philip Elliott, TIME, 6 Dec. 2024
Watching those pages come out of the printer was like seeing the last chunk of Antarctic ice fall into the ocean.
—Ayad Akhtar, The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2024
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This warm hoodie is ideal for a ton of winter activities.Will Porter, Travel + Leisure, 16 Dec. 2024
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The Astros lost a ton of games on purpose, and cashed in the resulting high draft picks into a powerful nucleus that drove their run of success.Tony Blengino, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
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The resulting Treaty of Portsmouth, signed in the New Hampshire town on September 5, 1905, ceded large hunks of Manchuria, Korea and the island of Sakhalin to Japan.Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Dec. 2024
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If the first player says Phil Collins, the second says Mike Rutherford, and the third is stumped, another team can buzz in and earn all the extra points with noted hunk Tony Banks.Devon Ivie, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2024
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Observing at longer wavelengths using ALMA, the researchers could penetrate dust clouds and reveal a clump of dust at the outer edge of the two planets’ orbits.Jamie Carter, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
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The patch of shadow lay on the snow at the edge of a thorn clump thirty yards ahead.Wilson H. Stover, Outdoor Life, 5 Dec. 2024
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Our dinner options are greasy pizza or rubbery burgers, the undersides of the tables are speckled with wads of gum and the background noise is the shouting voices of children.Lizz Schumer, People.com, 3 Dec. 2024
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That means having to come up with a sizeable wad of money to the lender, and the situation only gets worse if the car was purchased with a minimal down payment, and/or has a quicker-than-average rate of depreciation.Jim Gorzelany, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2024
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At two dozen players, that’s between $120,000 and $252,000 in annual revenue.Chris Quintana, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2024
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There was also another dozen cash and in-kind prizes handed out by a raft of sponsors including the Arab Cinema Center, Filmmore, Freshly Ground Stories, Ithra, Ambient Light, Rotana Studios and Titrafilm.Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 12 Dec. 2024
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Christmas in America has long been about receiving presents from Santa for being nice, or at worst, getting a lump of coal for being naughty.Jennifer Borresen, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2024
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Make cream cheese mixture: Beat together cream cheese, mayonnaise, sour cream, Dijon mustard, Worcestershire, hot sauce, and garlic powder in a large bowl with an electric mixer on low speed until well combined and no lumps remain, 1 to 2 minutes.Giovanna Vazquez, Southern Living, 8 Dec. 2024
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Large numbers of new people coming into the home and descending on piles of food and Christmas decorations easily trigger anxious dogs − and worst-case scenario, someone could get bit or your dog could eat something dangerous.Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2024
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Against another wall is a ceiling-high pile of sacks filled with white powder.Greg Myre, NPR, 19 Dec. 2024
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Great bright globs of gore, falling splat-splat on the linoleum.Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2024
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The catenary lights provide a festive evening glob reminiscent of vineyard properties.Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 20 Nov. 2024
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“Chunk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chunk. Accessed 24 Dec. 2024.
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