as in ton
a considerable amount picked up a bushel of decorations at the after-Christmas sale

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Recent Examples of bushel Corn is the most valuable crop in Kansas – in 2022, farmers collected $3.6 billion from corn, at $7.2 a bushel, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Katie Bernard, Kansas City Star, 16 Jan. 2025 Meiko and Eli are distracting themselves through midlife, while Carina is a bushel of best intentions slowly realizing that life was better at a school where kids and parents alike could at least be honest about being in it for themselves. Daniel D'addario, Variety, 17 Dec. 2024 People drive across the county to buy jewel-bright quarts and bushels from their stand. Anna Noyes, Bon Appétit, 16 Dec. 2024 Under Rolph, the company, now called Thrive Restaurant Group, bought up a bushel of Applebee’s locations. Sharon Hoffmann, Kansas City Star, 2 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for bushel
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Noun
  • There’s still a ton of basketball to be played, but the thought of Flagg teaming up with Wembanyama to form a Twin Towers 2.0 is definitely a fun thought for San Antonio fans and a scary one for the rest of the league.
    Vik Chokshi, The Athletic, 21 Feb. 2025
  • The Pioneer Woman’s Spring Collection is filled with tons of kitchen pieces that Grandma would love.
    Alicia Geigel, Southern Living, 21 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • More than two dozen drug cartel suspects from Mexico — including the man charged in the 1985 slaying of a U.S. drug agent — are in U.S. custody after Mexican officials agreed to send them to the United States, four sources familiar with the matter told NBC News.
    Jonathan Dienst, NBC News, 28 Feb. 2025
  • The complaint names more than two dozen defendants, including Combs’ mother Janice, Universal Music, MTV, and several other Bad Boy officials.
    Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 28 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Riding The Collaboration Wave After two highly successful seasons, brands are capitalizing on The White Lotus’ success with a slew of collaborations.
    Brett F. Braley-Palko, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025
  • Unlike 2017, when a slew of Republican voices were vocally against him, almost no congressional Republicans now speak out against him.
    Brady Knox, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 20 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The United States has also pushed increasingly powerful military hardware in greater quantities close to Chinese shores.
    Jennifer Kavanagh, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
  • But sustainable jet fuels are available in only small quantities.
    Ben Geman, Axios, 25 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • And scripts that hadn’t even been dreamt of have risen to the top of the production pile, with Rock and Clayface being prime examples.
    Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Feb. 2025
  • At the stroke of a pen, U.S. and European leaders could order their banks to block the accounts of Russia’s central bank, rendering much of Putin’s cash pile inaccessible.
    Edward Fishman, The Atlantic, 24 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • February is ending and March is beginning and with a new month comes a whole bunch of new shows and movies to watch on all your favorite streaming services.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Rather than wait for the cavalry to arrive in the unlikely form of a bunch of hitherto untapped categories, the sales guys instead chopped the commercial running times in half, thereby making their inventory a great deal more affordable.
    Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 28 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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

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“Bushel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bushel. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.

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