as in chunk
a small uneven mass
deftly avoided stepping in a gobbet of spit on the sidewalk
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Recent Examples of gobbet
New York City schools had stopped serving the savory poultry gobbets after people found foreign objects inside them.
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Colin Moynihan, New York Times, 28 June 2023
In temperatures exceeding 800 Celsius (1,472 Fahrenheit), gobbets of fluid metal splashed and contaminated the church’s stonework throughout.
—Feargus O'Sullivan, WIRED, 1 Aug. 2019
Afterlife with Archie cheerfully drops bloody gobbets of doom on the carefree world of Riverdale.
—Noah Berlatsky, The Verge, 5 Dec. 2018
But of real emotional value, this season has great gobbets.
—Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 12 Feb. 2018
The name of the sender was blacked out, but the content of the email took the committee’s entire threadbare claim to any legitimacy at all and fed bloody gobbets of that claim to the wolverines.
—Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 13 Sep. 2017
Colin Moynihan, New York Times, 28 June 2023
In temperatures exceeding 800 Celsius (1,472 Fahrenheit), gobbets of fluid metal splashed and contaminated the church’s stonework throughout.
—Feargus O'Sullivan, WIRED, 1 Aug. 2019
Afterlife with Archie cheerfully drops bloody gobbets of doom on the carefree world of Riverdale.
—Noah Berlatsky, The Verge, 5 Dec. 2018
But of real emotional value, this season has great gobbets.
—Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 12 Feb. 2018
The name of the sender was blacked out, but the content of the email took the committee’s entire threadbare claim to any legitimacy at all and fed bloody gobbets of that claim to the wolverines.
—Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 13 Sep. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gobbet
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That’s a problem because interest is already swallowing up a greater chunk of the annual federal budget than defense spending.Matt Egan, CNN, 14 Jan. 2025
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New York is reportedly willing to eat a chunk of his contract to get a deal done.Zach Pressnell, Newsweek, 13 Jan. 2025
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The Irish sad-boy hunk of Gladiator II and Normal People starred in Streetcar in London in 2023 and is bringing the production to Brooklyn this spring.Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
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In fact, the dish can be enjoyed as an appetizer or light dinner when served with a nice hunk of bread.Robin Miller, The Arizona Republic, 3 Jan. 2025
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Witnesses said Brandon was clutching a bloody wad of money, and trying to speak.Brittany Wallman, Miami Herald, 2 Jan. 2025
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And then there were the practitioners who sneaked wads of cash into the United States at the dance group’s direction.Michael Rothfeld, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2024
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Clumped salt can usually be revived by breaking up the clumps.Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 9 Jan. 2025
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The pistons, belts, and pulleys create the ambience of an engine room on a steamship, as clumps of fiber are separated and realigned into uniform fabric.Shane C Kurup, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Dec. 2024
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Just in time for Christmas, certain members of Congress are hard at work in their policy shops, fashioning a massive lump of cybersecurity coal with which to gift American users of electronic devices.David Williams, National Review, 26 Dec. 2024
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Ten years ago, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta probe pulled up alongside a dusty, icy lump the size of a mountain.Elise Cutts, WIRED, 22 Dec. 2024
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Depp pushes over a cabinet with dishes, rips open her dress and makes a most unholy noise as her eyeballs go up in their sockets, tongue juts out and globs of drool pour from her mouth.Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 24 Dec. 2024
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At the end of the first song, a small red glob rained down from above.Joe Lynch, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
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“Gobbet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gobbet. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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