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as in chunks
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 blobs
The part of his consciousness focusing on tactics directed two of the drop-drones into the blobs of foam that fizzed away on the balcony floor.
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Jeff Spry,
Space.com,
26 June 2026
Yeah; a lot of it was language blobs.
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Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
26 June 2026
Curate a collection of bright colors, applying in dots, blobs, and splotches for an elevated art school vibe.
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Calin Van Paris,
InStyle,
19 June 2026
The colors, pains, pleasures, smells, tastes and sounds, the what-it’s-like of being conscious, are not private inner bits and blobs that philosophers call qualia, floating in a theatre of the mind.
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Andréa Morris,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2026
Set the blobs up in the yard and allow kids or teens to hop from one blob to another.
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Parents,
11 June 2026
Unlike some recent soft robotic concepts that resemble blobs of slime or liquid droplets, the NTU design maintains a solid but flexible structure.
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New Atlas,
8 June 2026
Nilsson’s version shares little with its source beyond Adam and Eve themselves, here recast as doughy, beigy silhouettes striking poses amid an almost psychedelic soup of parti-color fronds, blobs, and amoebas.
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Jeremy Lybarger,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
To tie the space together, the sink and floor tile match the painting's black blobs.
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Madeline Buiano,
Martha Stewart,
25 May 2026
Jeff Spry,
Space.com,
26 June 2026
Yeah; a lot of it was language blobs.
—
Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
26 June 2026
Curate a collection of bright colors, applying in dots, blobs, and splotches for an elevated art school vibe.
—
Calin Van Paris,
InStyle,
19 June 2026
The colors, pains, pleasures, smells, tastes and sounds, the what-it’s-like of being conscious, are not private inner bits and blobs that philosophers call qualia, floating in a theatre of the mind.
—
Andréa Morris,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2026
Set the blobs up in the yard and allow kids or teens to hop from one blob to another.
—
Parents,
11 June 2026
Unlike some recent soft robotic concepts that resemble blobs of slime or liquid droplets, the NTU design maintains a solid but flexible structure.
—
New Atlas,
8 June 2026
Nilsson’s version shares little with its source beyond Adam and Eve themselves, here recast as doughy, beigy silhouettes striking poses amid an almost psychedelic soup of parti-color fronds, blobs, and amoebas.
—
Jeremy Lybarger,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
To tie the space together, the sink and floor tile match the painting's black blobs.
—
Madeline Buiano,
Martha Stewart,
25 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blobs
Noun
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On their way in, crews had to clear debris from multiple floors; aside from chunks of concrete, masonry and flooring, obstacles included a bathroom sink and toilet that had tumbled down from above.
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Trump gleefully tearing up large chunks of the White House and my hometown, trying to install a solipsistic arch, an exclusive golf course, a gargantuan ballroom and a garden of heroes — all to his Versailles-on-acid specifications.
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The colors change to indicate how saturated the beads are, and the dyes used contain hazardous chemicals.
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Combine gemstones, modern French tips, and your favorite team flag surrounded by beads for the win.
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McCary also points out that shorter grass clippings are also less likely to form large or heavy clumps that might smother patches of lawn.
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Plant them in clumps behind or at the edges of a group of dahlias for a stunning early autumn display.
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Bathroom sink drains can become clogged from hair, globs of toothpaste, and soapy residue.
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Bieber’s face artfully dotted with globs of lotion.
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Photos apparently taken by the men themselves show wads of cash on the seat of a car, in a plastic bag and in stacks on the floor of a location in New York.
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The alpha heroes of 1980s romances—ranch owners, corporate raiders, anyone played by Michael Douglas—tended to be emotionally constipated anti-feminists intent on dominating the opposite sex by using testosterone and wads of cash.
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The stones are arranged in an irregular composition intended to evoke falling droplets of water.
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The most seductive is a spectacular piece called the Untamed, which physically embodies the jeweler’s sensibilities in an 18-karat-white-gold strand of ivy with diamond leaves interspersed with tiny rock-crystal dew droplets.
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Can turkey tail mushrooms shrink lipomas, the soft, fatty lumps that show up under the skin of countless aging dogs?
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Far from lumps of rock, the trojans, along with DJ and Dinkinesh (which is the Ethiopian name for the Lucy fossil), are windows into the past, and the storytellers of the Earth's most ancient history.
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The entire lobby level, from its white stone flooring and pillars, to the planter boxes that (barely) separate the lounge from the entrance, drips in understated opulence.
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From cooking splatters and coffee drips to grass stains and ink marks, stains are an inevitable part of everyday life.
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“Blobs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blobs. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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