1
as in lie
a statement known by its maker to be untrue and made in order to deceive
told a whopper to get out of jury duty
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2
as in giant
something that is unusually large and powerful
a whopper of a fish that won first prize in the derby the season finale ended with a whopper of a cliffhanger
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Recent Examples of whopper
The executive order begins with a whopper of a falsehood: that the United States has an inadequate supply of energy.
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Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 3 Mar. 2025
Meanwhile, at the local bar, a fisherman finds an unlikely ally in catching the whopper that’ll change his life.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 5 Feb. 2025
Even geniuses make mistakes, and the executive order is a whopper.
—Matt Robison, Newsweek, 24 Feb. 2025
But here are two of the whoppers: The Cardinals, White Sox and Dodgers worked a three-way trade that answered a lot of questions (and raised a few others).
—Ken Rosenthal, The Athletic, 30 July 2024
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Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 3 Mar. 2025
Meanwhile, at the local bar, a fisherman finds an unlikely ally in catching the whopper that’ll change his life.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 5 Feb. 2025
Even geniuses make mistakes, and the executive order is a whopper.
—Matt Robison, Newsweek, 24 Feb. 2025
But here are two of the whoppers: The Cardinals, White Sox and Dodgers worked a three-way trade that answered a lot of questions (and raised a few others).
—Ken Rosenthal, The Athletic, 30 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for whopper
Noun
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Beneath the veneer of misanthropy and the din of controversy her perspective has often incited lies a more generous sensibility that was always present but is only now coming to the fore.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
1 May 2025
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Like Bondi, Dhillon has pushed Trump’s lie that the 2020 election was stolen from him.—
Kevin Rector,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Apr. 2025
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The result was free publicity for Novo Nordisk, the Danish pharmaceutical giant behind Ozempic and Wegovy.—
Jesus Mesa,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Apr. 2025
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With each match, including a 1-0 victory over the Brazilian giant, residents still reeling from a financial crisis were lifted out of their funk, carried along on a country-consuming wave of hope as the men’s national team sought to qualify for the World Cup for the first time.—
Lewis Gordon,
New York Times,
30 Apr. 2025
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Returning to the wuxia genre that has defined much of his illustrious career, Tsui explains his approach to this latest adaptation of the classic martial arts tale.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
8 May 2025
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The best film version of Finney’s tale is the ‘70s one with Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Veronica Cartwright, Jeff Goldblum, and Leonard Nimoy.—
Brian Tallerico,
Vulture,
7 May 2025
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Researchers hoped the whales were heading southward to round Florida back into the Atlantic.—
Dinah Voyles Pulver,
USA Today,
26 Apr. 2025
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This enchanting performance, captured by divers, is believed to be part of the whale’s mating behavior.—
Stories by Real-Time news team, with AI summarization,
Miami Herald,
25 Apr. 2025
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Despite the fallout, Owens remains firm in her belief that Ye’s story has been misrepresented and his mental health unfairly weaponized.—
Preezy Brown,
VIBE.com,
5 May 2025
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What basically is a two-hour trailer for the rest of Anakin Skywalker’s story is kind of a mess – he was immaculately conceived?—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
4 May 2025
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Remmick is a monster, but his homeland was colonized by some of the same rapacious forces that brought the twins’ ancestors to America.—
Adam Serwer,
The Atlantic,
2 May 2025
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Before this year, Rantanen was a playoff monster, putting up 101 points (34-67) in 81 career playoff games.—
Pierre LeBrun,
New York Times,
29 Apr. 2025
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Colossal plans to use similar techniques to bring back the Ice Age woolly mammoth in 2028, editing living cell nuclei from Asian elephants—the mammoth’s closest living kin—to express mammoth traits preserved in nearly 60 sets of Ice Age remains.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
7 Apr. 2025
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The company intends to bring back its version of a mammoth in 2028.—
Paul Smaglik,
Discover Magazine,
4 Mar. 2025
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Hollywood regularly relies on superheroes, dinosaurs and death-defying stunts from Tom Cruise to propel the summer season, and overly familiar brands will again reign in terms of ticket sales.—
Rebecca Rubin,
Variety,
6 May 2025
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After dinosaurs went extinct, South America was dominated by large, crocodile-like reptiles called sebecids.—
Lillian Ali,
Smithsonian Magazine,
6 May 2025
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“Whopper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/whopper. Accessed 15 May. 2025.
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