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Baleine Clothing Storage Bag 2-Pack If a closet cleanout is on your to-do list this spring, grab these popular storage bags to securely stow winter sweaters and bulky coats until next year.—
Clara McMahon,
People.com,
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Under current permit rules, sheds, typically erected for building facade repairs, can be up for a full year with the possibility of extensions, a timeline that often results in the bulky structures blocking sidewalks for lengthy periods.—
Josephine Stratman,
New York Daily News,
26 Mar. 2025
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Set in 1987, Predator starts with Schwarzenegger's Dutch taking out guerrillas in the Central American jungle with his beefy battalion of soldiers — played by Carl Weathers, Jesse Ventura, Bill Duke, Sonny Landham, and future director of The Predator, Shane Black.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
7 Mar. 2025
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Municipal bonds are already beloved by high-income investors, but those seeking additional yield and beefier returns are reaching for a little more risk.—
Darla Mercado, CFP®,
CNBC,
20 Feb. 2025
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Ironically, her swollen face looks plump and round despite her partial buccal fat removal — a procedure that extracts the soft pads of tissue found inside the cheeks to create a slimmer face.—
Leah Dolan,
CNN,
22 Mar. 2025
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It’s packed with moisture-boosting ingredients that leave your skin feeling plump, dewy and ready to glow.—
Maria Correa,
Miami Herald,
3 Mar. 2025
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An hour ago, the stocky British actor best known on these shores for playing tough guys and gangsters was on a morning talk show, after having chatted with Jimmy Fallon the previous evening.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
22 Mar. 2025
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Cooper concluded that a megalodon would have been a stocky, powerful shark—measuring some 52 feet (16 meters) in length with a body mass of 67.86 tons—able to execute bursts of high speed to attack prey, much like the significantly smaller great white shark.—
Jennifer Ouellette,
Ars Technica,
9 Mar. 2025
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Its doe-foot applicator has a chubby, rounded tip that comes out of the tube with a lovely squish.—
Jennifer Hussein,
Allure,
14 Mar. 2025
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All sketches wish to be real. —Tomas Tranströmer, The Blue House The fertility clinic’s waiting room featured photos of chubby, healthy, smiling babies.—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
5 Mar. 2025
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Last month, 10 people died when a small commuter plane that was overweight by half a ton crashed onto sea ice in the Norton Sound, near Nome on the state's western coast.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
26 Mar. 2025
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Wells Fargo starts coverage of Wingstop with an overweight buy rating and price target of $270 a share.—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
26 Mar. 2025
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Its governor, Edward Jackson, was a close friend of the the Indiana Klan leader, D. C. Stephenson, a pudgy man with a reputation for high living, carousing, and trouble with the law.—
Tara McAndrew,
JSTOR Daily,
25 Jan. 2017
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Forget about his origins as a pudgy second-round pick whose selection was made during a Taco Bell commercial.—
John Hollinger,
The Athletic,
21 Nov. 2024
Adjective
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The sea cucumber is also covered with tentacles and papillae, or fleshy protrusions, according to the study.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
14 Mar. 2025
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There are many types of these small plants, always with a pair of very thick, fleshy leaves and almost no stem.—
Neil Sperry,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
14 Mar. 2025
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“Plumpish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plumpish. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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