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as in chunk
a small uneven mass
flicked a blob of jelly on the toast and began to spread it around
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Recent Examples of blob
In the image below, the reflection is rendered as a faint blue blob toward the center of the image.
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PC Magazine, 31 Mar. 2025
Nearly 40 years ago, Ronald Reagan warned that the Department of Education was primed for capture by the education blob, the teachers’ unions, and lobbyists trying to get their piece of the pie.
—The Editors, National Review, 21 Mar. 2025
Next, it’s presumed, comes adulthood, and then death, and then resurrection via blobs of data with four tempers.
—Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 21 Mar. 2025
The partying extends to the traveling ‘blonde blob,’ who are back on Koh Samui with White Lotus staffer Valentin and his Russian cohorts.
—Dan Heching, CNN, 17 Mar. 2025
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PC Magazine, 31 Mar. 2025
Nearly 40 years ago, Ronald Reagan warned that the Department of Education was primed for capture by the education blob, the teachers’ unions, and lobbyists trying to get their piece of the pie.
—The Editors, National Review, 21 Mar. 2025
Next, it’s presumed, comes adulthood, and then death, and then resurrection via blobs of data with four tempers.
—Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 21 Mar. 2025
The partying extends to the traveling ‘blonde blob,’ who are back on Koh Samui with White Lotus staffer Valentin and his Russian cohorts.
—Dan Heching, CNN, 17 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for blob
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Mitchell spent a chunk of the game defending Hawks star guard Trae Young, limiting him to just two field-goal attempts while guarding him for six minutes of game clock, according to NBA tracking stats.—
Anthony Chiang,
Miami Herald,
20 Apr. 2025
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In 1978, Wenner sold the magazine to Larry Burke, a young man from Chicago who had spent a chunk of his twenties vagabonding around Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.—
Rachel Monroe,
New Yorker,
18 Apr. 2025
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Beelzebub, however, is nothing but evil incarnate, first appearing as a sort of metaphysical pollution—a writhing black oil-like glob suspended in midair.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
11 Mar. 2025
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But, just like peanut butter—which is considered healthy for infants—Levinson says that cold, firm chunks or thick globs of butter may pose a choking hazard.—
Sarah Scott,
Parents,
7 Mar. 2025
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About 70 feet down, the rover would see purple clumps along the lakebed formed by cyanobacteria, a microorganism that thrives in habitats like sinkholes that are high in sulfate and low in oxygen.—
Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi,
Discover Magazine,
18 Apr. 2025
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Plants grow from a thick rhizome and spread to form dense clumps that benefit from late summer division every few years.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
13 Apr. 2025
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Her choice of gemstones such as rose cut diamonds, brilliant diamonds, ancient beads, tumbled colored gemstones and precious metals including mixed sterling silver and 18-karat gold pieces) makes each piece of hers highly nuanced and unique.—
Kyle Roderick,
Forbes.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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Contact your healthcare provider immediately if a seed or bead gets stuck in your ear and doesn't come out.—
Anna Giorgi,
Verywell Health,
24 Apr. 2025
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But she's got her choice of handsome high school hunks, including Reid (Andrew Liner), Davis' son and the school's quarterback, and Lucas (Garrett Wareing), the poor kid from the wrong side of the tracks.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
18 Apr. 2025
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Their weirdly cozy 750-square-foot studio layout, a tiny dot in a 3.5 million-square-foot hunk of capitalism, was to these bohemian commandos a rebuke to the city’s destruction of their old neighborhood close to the mall.—
Michael Phillips,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Apr. 2025
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With a programmable rain curtain that can create patterns and images using water droplets, as well as a pool on stage, water is a central theme and a key part of the family-friendly extravaganza featuring Cyr Wheel artists, an aerialist, a contortionist, a juggler and football (soccer) freestylers.—
Karu F. Daniels,
New York Daily News,
17 Apr. 2025
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What is a moonbow? A moonbow, or lunar rainbow, is a rare phenomenon that occurs when moonlight is refracted, reflected, and dispersed by water droplets in the air, just like a daytime rainbow.—
Daisy Dobrijevic,
Space.com,
25 Mar. 2025
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Newcastle fans can feel justifiably angry by the notion that a team will waltz off with their No 9 with a flutter of eyelashes and a wad of cash.—
Jacob Whitehead,
New York Times,
9 Apr. 2025
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But luckily, the owner of the car, who came running out of the corner deli nearby, was content to accept a wad of cash, rather than getting the cops involved.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
31 Mar. 2025
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Excess moisture drips into the V-shape and is then funneled into a container.—
Lauren Carpenter,
USA Today,
22 Apr. 2025
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Because when so many Americans are tightening grocery budgets, scaling back meals, and absorbing the daily drip of scarcity, a pass that promises a burger a day doesn’t feel indulgent.—
Stephanie Gravalese,
Forbes.com,
16 Apr. 2025
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“Blob.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blob. Accessed 29 Apr. 2025.
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