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as in ton
a considerable amount
that new sports car must have cost a real chunk of change
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Recent Examples of chunk
Take the Nationals, for instance, who have spent a large chunk of the season exceeding expectations in the National League East.
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Tim Britton,
New York Times,
1 July 2026
The average employer match is worth roughly 4% to 5% of your pay, and turning it down is effectively refusing a chunk of your compensation.
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Angelica Leicht,
CBS News,
1 July 2026
With reigning state champion DeSoto moving down to Class 5A, Aledo and Carroll could find themselves among the championship contenders despite both squads losing a large chunk of talent to graduation.
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Charles Baggarly,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
30 June 2026
But those real-world records often are missing big chunks of patient data.
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Katie Palmer,
STAT,
30 June 2026
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Tim Britton,
New York Times,
1 July 2026
The average employer match is worth roughly 4% to 5% of your pay, and turning it down is effectively refusing a chunk of your compensation.
—
Angelica Leicht,
CBS News,
1 July 2026
With reigning state champion DeSoto moving down to Class 5A, Aledo and Carroll could find themselves among the championship contenders despite both squads losing a large chunk of talent to graduation.
—
Charles Baggarly,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
30 June 2026
But those real-world records often are missing big chunks of patient data.
—
Katie Palmer,
STAT,
30 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chunk
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Each scoop lifted tons of earth and rock as engineers raced to complete one of the most ambitious infrastructure projects in history.
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It is designed to place nearly a half-ton of payload mass into low-Earth orbit.
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His torso and thighs grow eye-poppingly muscular beneath their skimpy fur-and-leather togs—a development that does not go unnoticed by a warrior named Red Hair, who plucks the young hunk from his post and tosses him into the prime time of the gladiator pit.
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The actor is also well-aware of Almanzo’s heartthrob status — hey, someone in Walnut Grove had to be the town hunk!
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Double bag any heavy trash bags or loads that contain a lot of wet food to prevent rips and leaks.
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Battery systems could support those loads alongside renewable generation or other power sources.
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Remove sticks, rocks, clumps, and other debris from the soil that can impede growth.
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Now the players were clumps of broken petals on grass.
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The city has opened two dozen splash pads and eight cooling shelters across the city.
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An early-stage plan for roughly 280 apartments, including affordable units, and more than a dozen retail shops was recently unveiled in documents filed with the city, which were obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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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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And Lamanna’s coauthor Jingmai O’Connor, vertebrate paleontologist and associate curator of fossil reptiles at Chicago’s Field Museum, also pointed out wads of bone found in the Changma Basin resemble pellets that owls regurgitate after feeding on prey.
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Many have camped out along the edge of the piles of crushed concrete and rebar, awaiting any word of their relatives.
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But Carron happily pointed to a pile of recycled asphalt that has a different plan.
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Pastas, all made in house, are a solid choice too—like the Squid Ink Orecchiette with lump crab.
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Stocklas was retired by the time of his Powerball win, which netted a lump-sum payment of $191 million.
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“Chunk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chunk. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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