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the winner in the contest for biggest pumpkin was a jumbo that weighed in at over a thousand pounds
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Angler Blas Lara caught the new record fish—a 3-pound, 2-ounce jumbo perch—while participating in the Mayor’s Fishing Derby in Hammond, Indiana on the shores of Lake Michigan.
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Travis Hall, Field & Stream, 9 May 2024
Volvo is also introducing a jumbo, fully electric SUV called the EX90 that will start at around $80,000 and compete with a crowded field of similar luxury EVs.
—Peter Douglas, The Mercury News, 18 Feb. 2024
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Travis Hall, Field & Stream, 9 May 2024
Volvo is also introducing a jumbo, fully electric SUV called the EX90 that will start at around $80,000 and compete with a crowded field of similar luxury EVs.
—Peter Douglas, The Mercury News, 18 Feb. 2024
See all Example Sentences for jumbo
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“Jumbo.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jumbo. Accessed 31 May. 2024.
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from Jumbo, name of a huge elephant shown by circus owner P. T. Barnum
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