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as in chunk
a small uneven mass
flicked a blob of jelly on the toast and began to spread it around
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Recent Examples of blob
For example, Cookie Scriver, Pete’s daughter, is represented as a chocolate chip cookie with legs, while other children appear as colorful blobs with wild hair or inanimate objects with faces.
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Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 1 Feb. 2025
One of your machines—the one that cuts the dough into tiny trees—passed its manual maintenance check a few months ago but suddenly begins producing amorphous blobs of dough instead of crisp, clean cuts.
—Bill Rokos, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025
What could have been a drab ten-story block surrounded by pavement instead became a low, deep, black-glass blob—reflective in the day, glowing at night—that filled the whole lot, following the curves of medieval streets.
—Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
Yet blobs of dark matter were busy pulling in the surrounding gas, some of it condensing enough to set off nuclear fusion.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 30 Jan. 2025
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Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 1 Feb. 2025
One of your machines—the one that cuts the dough into tiny trees—passed its manual maintenance check a few months ago but suddenly begins producing amorphous blobs of dough instead of crisp, clean cuts.
—Bill Rokos, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025
What could have been a drab ten-story block surrounded by pavement instead became a low, deep, black-glass blob—reflective in the day, glowing at night—that filled the whole lot, following the curves of medieval streets.
—Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
Yet blobs of dark matter were busy pulling in the surrounding gas, some of it condensing enough to set off nuclear fusion.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 30 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for blob
Noun
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Japan — where auto exports make up the largest chunk of outbound shipments and the US is the largest market — has already raised the issue with the White House.—
Bloomberg,
The Mercury News,
19 Feb. 2025
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Before the never-bored world of smartphones, that made up a big chunk of my time in N.Y.C. — Frank Vigorito Torres WINTER’S TALE, by Mark Helprin.—
Juliana Barbassa,
New York Times,
19 Feb. 2025
Noun
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What does mold look like? When thinking about mold in the home, the image of fuzzy green globs clinging to old bread may come to mind.—
Bridget Reed Morawski,
Architectural Digest,
14 Jan. 2025
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Yet the passage of time has roughed over the fine details of their artistry, rendering these once-crisp lines into fuzzy globs.—
ByRodrigo Pérez Ortega,
science.org,
13 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Sifting a dry ingredient before measuring it not only helps break up and clumps, but helps the measurement to be more accurate and leads to a lighter, airier end product.—
Cameron Beall,
Southern Living,
16 Feb. 2025
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They are often found in drainage canals or thick grass clumps, according to the museum.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
10 Feb. 2025
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The graves, some dating back 1,200 years, contained personal items like beads and combs, suggesting contact with Nordic countries.—
Stories by Real-Time news team, with AI summarization,
Miami Herald,
21 Feb. 2025
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Check in between 6-8pm Saturday at Howl at the Moon, 504 Park St. $18 general admission, includes beads and color-changing glass.—
Alissa Widman Neese,
Axios,
20 Feb. 2025
Noun
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His Girl Hollywood’s hero takes major inspiration from classic movie hunk Gene Kelly, particularly this film and its zany organized crime antics.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
People.com,
10 Feb. 2025
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This is the stuff, Kravitz suggests, that modern-day dreams are made of: the dead-eyed hunk, the state of permanent vacation, the numbing cycles of consumption and overindulgence.—
Sophie Gilbert,
The Atlantic,
6 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Legionnaires’ disease is a severe form of pneumonia contracted by inhaling contaminated water droplets.—
A.D. Quig,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Feb. 2025
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Measles virus spreads when an infected person coughs, sneezes or talks and another person inhales droplets, Mayo Clinic said.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA TODAY,
16 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Its cover — a black-and-white photo depicting more than a dozen Black men, boys, and babies waving wads of cash and liquor bottles over the corpse of a white judge on the lawn of Obama’s White House — was a provocation tailor-made for the Black Lives Matter movement, which was then in full swing.—
Zak Cheney-Rice,
Vulture,
29 Jan. 2025
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For now, Match Group is hoping to appease shareholders by throwing wads of cash at them.—
Brett Owens,
Forbes,
19 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Saving Water: Advanced irrigation systems like drip irrigation and rainwater harvesting are becoming the go-to.—
Matt Rozo,
The Mercury News,
21 Feb. 2025
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The Oxo Brew 9-Cup is the perfect drip coffee maker and consistently provides a delicious cup of joe without a lot of fuss.—
Terri Williams,
Architectural Digest,
21 Feb. 2025
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“Blob.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blob. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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