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Noun
  • The ancient cheese was incredibly well-preserved, but a new assessment of the chunks reveals some long-obsecured knowledge about human culture and a potential path for how dairy may have spread across Asia.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Without heading into spoiler territory, there are parts of the second book that chunks of the fanbase took against.
    Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 26 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Mom was going through chemotherapy that made her hair fall out in clumps.
    Ariana Green, Vogue, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) detected carbon-containing molecules called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in these clumps, which can signal the presence of star-forming regions.
    Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • But with the cost of beef these days — though stores may run specials this time of year on standing rib roasts — such a big hunk of beef requires care and some paying attention too.
    Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 21 Dec. 2024
  • Her husband's a hunk, her career's going great, and her enormous house is dressed up for the holidays without an ornament out of place.
    EW.com, EW.com, 20 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Lin also is hoping to be more targeted in how Netflix spends its money, throwing fewer wads of upfront cash at big names while perhaps, perhaps, shifting away from its standard approach, and giving at least some talent a chance to share in the back-end profits of successful projects.
    David Bloom, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2024
  • Rison played with a fire first lit on the hardscrabble streets of Flint, Mich., where, as a high school star, a local mobster — Rison calls him Mafia Sal — would slip him wads of cash from time to time, urging him to pick a particular college and sign with a particular agent.
    Zak Keefer, The Athletic, 30 July 2024
Noun
  • Christmas in America has long been about receiving presents from Santa for being nice, or at worst, getting a lump of coal for being naughty.
    Jennifer Borresen, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Make cream cheese mixture: Beat together cream cheese, mayonnaise, sour cream, Dijon mustard, Worcestershire, hot sauce, and garlic powder in a large bowl with an electric mixer on low speed until well combined and no lumps remain, 1 to 2 minutes.
    Giovanna Vazquez, Southern Living, 8 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Great bright globs of gore, falling splat-splat on the linoleum.
    Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2024
  • The catenary lights provide a festive evening glob reminiscent of vineyard properties.
    Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 20 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Also, the control knobs are on the front of the unit, eliminating the need to reach over hot pots and pans.
    Terri Williams, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
  • There's a hard button to swap functions between the two and two physical control knobs.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
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“Nubble.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nubble. Accessed 5 Jan. 2025.

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