as in giant
unusually large
a jumbo jet
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as in whale
something that is unusually large and powerful
the winner in the contest for biggest pumpkin was a jumbo that weighed in at over a thousand pounds
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Recent Examples of jumbo
Steve Cambria, Hartford Courant, 4 Aug. 2024
Citibank mortgage types Citibank offers conventional, jumbo, FHA and VA loans in all 50 states and Washington, D.C.
—Kelsey Neubauer, CNBC, 23 July 2024
The jumbo 30-year jumbo fixed is at 6.625% with 1.5 points.
—Jeff Lazerson, Orange County Register, 18 July 2024
Soft Shell Crabs Soft shell crabs are available in five categories: mediums, hotels, primes, jumbos, and whales.
—Coastal Living, Southern Living, 4 June 2024
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Golf carts resemble the Joad’s family jalopy in the film classic, The Grapes of Wrath, packed to the hilt with jumbo, floating water mats, some 20 feet in length, colossal floats better suited for the Macy’s Day Parade, and the largest sand robber of them all, the canvas beach cabana.
—Steve Cambria, Hartford Courant, 4 Aug. 2024
Citibank mortgage types Citibank offers conventional, jumbo, FHA and VA loans in all 50 states and Washington, D.C.
—Kelsey Neubauer, CNBC, 23 July 2024
The jumbo 30-year jumbo fixed is at 6.625% with 1.5 points.
—Jeff Lazerson, Orange County Register, 18 July 2024
Soft Shell Crabs Soft shell crabs are available in five categories: mediums, hotels, primes, jumbos, and whales.
—Coastal Living, Southern Living, 4 June 2024
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Even after a tribute video, highlighting many of his on- and off-court contributions to the team and community, was played on the giant halo video board, some fans cheered; most booed.Janis Carr, Orange County Register, 6 Nov. 2024
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In fact, there are also oases throughout the Arabian Desert where giant date farms produce more than 1.61 million tons a year from over 34 million date palms.Paul Feinstein, Travel + Leisure, 5 Nov. 2024
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The podcaster also brought up an unproven statement from his interview with Trump: that wind-turbines, a form of clean energy, are negatively affecting and even killing whales.Karissa Waddick, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2024
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Unlike the more familiar whale (Rhincodon typus) and basking sharks (Cetorhinus maximus), the megamouth remains a shadowy figure in our history books.Melissa Cristina Marquez, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
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In Antarctica, sea ice surrounding the continent also buttresses gigantic ice sheets, slowing the flow of glacial ice into the ocean.Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 8 Nov. 2024
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Invest in community colleges, where a gigantic proportion of American students are but where a lack of resources often thwarts their ambitions.Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 7 Nov. 2024
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The college essay is going the way of the dinosaurs as more teachers give up on the ability to tell whether their students are writing their papers themselves.Nir Eisikovits, Discover Magazine, 14 Nov. 2024
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The devastation that wiped out the dinosaurs created ideal conditions for various fungi to thrive, and ants actually began to cultivate fungi.Popular Science Staff, Popular Science, 6 Nov. 2024
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The details of the deal aren’t a huge deal in the grand scheme of things for the franchise, but Moody inked a sweet contract and can play himself into even more money.Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 10 Nov. 2024
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Here's a huge price drop on a very capable convertible Chromebook.K. Thor Jensen, PCMAG, 7 Nov. 2024
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Frankly, this is a hard argument to dispute, but the guy is ultimately the movie’s monster, so his ideology has to be sufficiently challenged by the time the credits roll.Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
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Hung was also instrumental in creating the jiangshi genre of horror kung fu in the 1980s, inspired by his childhood love of ghosts and monsters.Gavin J Blair, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Nov. 2024
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At the bottom was a chain-link fence with an enormous hole.Blake Nelson, The Mercury News, 11 Nov. 2024
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Warren Buffett’s iconic investment and holding company, Berkshire Hathaway, is shedding its stake in Apple, bite by byte, and building an enormous cash pile — $325 billion at the moment.Peter Green, Quartz, 10 Nov. 2024
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The joke of Strings’s mammoth, self-sabotaging ego, however, can only be sustained for so long, even by very appealing actors.Sara Holdren, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2024
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The event, according to research, may have triggered a 1000-year-long ice age, wiping out many large animals, including mammoths, and dramatically marking the growth of human civilization.Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
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“Jumbo.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jumbo. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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