as in loads
a considerable amount
repairing the roof is going to cost a fistful of money
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Recent Examples of fistful
This summer, with the Biden campaign in disarray, Trump won a fistful of high-profile endorsements from outspoken tycoons such as Elon Musk.
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Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 19 Aug. 2024
Fat fingers grabbed fistfuls of fruit, sending leaves raining down the forest floor like confetti.
—Chris Schalkx, Vogue, 7 Sep. 2024
Audience members, all dressed to impress, were ascending stairs to the stage to pay homage to a performing drag queen with a dramatic beso on each cheek and a fistful of pesos folded into fake cleavage.
—David Dodge, Travel + Leisure, 11 June 2024
The attacker rushed at Artem with what appeared to be a fistful of tissue paper and socked him once in the right side of his stomach, Artem said.
—Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 19 Feb. 2024
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Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 19 Aug. 2024
Fat fingers grabbed fistfuls of fruit, sending leaves raining down the forest floor like confetti.
—Chris Schalkx, Vogue, 7 Sep. 2024
Audience members, all dressed to impress, were ascending stairs to the stage to pay homage to a performing drag queen with a dramatic beso on each cheek and a fistful of pesos folded into fake cleavage.
—David Dodge, Travel + Leisure, 11 June 2024
The attacker rushed at Artem with what appeared to be a fistful of tissue paper and socked him once in the right side of his stomach, Artem said.
—Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 19 Feb. 2024
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More than a dozen Santa Clara alumni and other community leaders served as Opus Prize jurors, and 16 SCU students, faculty and staff members were ambassadors who joined on site visits to the prize finalists.Sal Pizarro, The Mercury News, 16 Nov. 2024
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Shakira, Bad Bunny, Anitta and Karol G are among the more than two dozen artists nominated for the biggest awards of the night — record of the year, album of the year and song of the year.Nicole Acevedo, NBC News, 15 Nov. 2024
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The band and their record label added tons of live recordings, new mixes, and other special bits of content that turned the one CD into a box set–the kind that fans of the band couldn’t wait to get their hands on.Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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Microsoft's approach also preserves tons of screenshots, which can include an array of sensitive information — although the company has settings to turn off the feature for specific apps and websites.Ina Fried, Axios, 4 Nov. 2024
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The new council and mayor must tackle a slew of troubles for the city, which faces the largest per-capita homeless population in the county, a stark shortage of firefighters and police officers, and ongoing questions on how to balance growth and draw in business.Luis Melecio-Zambrano, The Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2024
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After developing and producing the cult sitcom Freaks and Geeks and directing and producing a slew of movies now considered soulful comedy classics, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up, This Is 40 and Funny People, among them.Frank DiGiacomo, Billboard, 5 Nov. 2024
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Checking Your Malware Protection Anti-Malware makes up the biggest chunk of the security score, worth 30 points.PCMAG, PCMAG, 7 Nov. 2024
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The three states account for 44 electoral votes, a large chunk of the 93 electoral votes that the seven battleground states make up.Kinsey Crowley, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2024
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My friend gave me a whole bunch of her little girl’s clothes — such a high volume of items that some still had the tags on.Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 14 Nov. 2024
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Wolk herself responded to the controversy by tweeting a bunch, naturally.Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2024
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Deep water surrounded much of the area, so someone had placed sheets of wood on top of a chain link fence and balanced both on blocks of plastic foam, creating a makeshift barge that could pull piles of debris from shore to shore. Skid loaders crisscrossed the nearby sand.Blake Nelson, The Mercury News, 12 Nov. 2024
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The zoo shared a video of the baby calf sniffing for food in a pile of glass across its social media accounts to celebrate her birth.Ingrid Vasquez, People.com, 5 Nov. 2024
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What’s more, doing so resulted in no measurable change in fruit size or total quantity.Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 14 Nov. 2024
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Several studies published over the last year have raised concerns about the effects of large quantities of fluoride.John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Nov. 2024
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Noninterest income increased by $150 thousand, primarily due to higher wealth management fees and fees for other customer services.Quartz Bot, Quartz, 14 Nov. 2024
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Marcus and his wife, Billi, were signatories of The Giving Pledge, committing to give away the majority of their wealth.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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“Fistful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fistful. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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