as in chunk
a small uneven mass
served crackers topped with dollops of caviar as an appetizer
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Recent Examples of dollop
Delusion is usually a great personality trait in a Real Housewife, and all the best of them have a healthy dollop of it.
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Brian Moylan, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2026
Spoon dollops of the ricotta cheese over top.
—Robin Miller, AZCentral.com, 26 Jan. 2026
Wasabi Just like a healthy dollop of the pungent Japanese paste, this electric chartreuse provides a vibrant kick to everything.
—Michele Laufik, Martha Stewart, 19 Jan. 2026
Bone-in ham steak flops over the rim of its plate, and the table surface is erased when an entrée’s sidekicks — yeast-fragrant rolls the size of baseballs, a green salad practically obscured by a snow-white dollop of the house dressing — are dropped off.
—Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2026
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Brian Moylan, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2026
Spoon dollops of the ricotta cheese over top.
—Robin Miller, AZCentral.com, 26 Jan. 2026
Wasabi Just like a healthy dollop of the pungent Japanese paste, this electric chartreuse provides a vibrant kick to everything.
—Michele Laufik, Martha Stewart, 19 Jan. 2026
Bone-in ham steak flops over the rim of its plate, and the table surface is erased when an entrée’s sidekicks — yeast-fragrant rolls the size of baseballs, a green salad practically obscured by a snow-white dollop of the house dressing — are dropped off.
—Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dollop
Noun
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But the audience size showed that a hot musical act could attract a significant chunk of the audience already gathered to watch the game.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2026
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Physicists can break up the problem into chunks of outputs and inputs.—
Sarah Scoles,
Scientific American,
10 Feb. 2026
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Maybe John-John was a vacuous jock type, but even hunks have souls.—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
13 Feb. 2026
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The signature burger is a Tudor king of a burger, a hunk of Dexter beef layered with cheese and bacon and chicory-root jam, escorted by beef fat fries.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
11 Feb. 2026
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Inspired by both pre-Columbian cultures and modern scientific theories, Jensen made energetic diagrams of shapes, symbols, and numbers in loud complementary colors, using thick globs of paint; the results generate a fascinating friction.—
Brian Seibert,
New Yorker,
6 Feb. 2026
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With just a pea-size glob of scat, biologists can genetically decode which individual whale produced the sample.—
Kelso Harper,
Scientific American,
16 Dec. 2025
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Women generally receive fewer advanced therapies for PE, like thrombectomy (a procedure to pluck out a clot), and end up with more bleeding complications and a higher rate of lingering issues, like clumps of scar tissue in arteries that can increase blood pressure.—
Erica Sloan,
SELF,
10 Feb. 2026
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For years, astronomers have debated whether planets this massive could form through core accretion, the slow, bottom-up process in which solid material clumps together into a dense core that then pulls in vast amounts of gas.—
Samantha Mathewson,
Space.com,
10 Feb. 2026
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Esty Shapiro, a 19-year-old woman from a Hasidic Jewish sect in Brooklyn, pockets a secret wad of cash, picks up a passport, and hops on a plane to Berlin, all set to the tense soundtrack of a thriller.—
Stephanie Bai,
The Atlantic,
8 Feb. 2026
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Use those wads of wrapping paper leftover from a birthday, baby shower, or holiday bash to stuff the bottom and sides of the box and prevent shifting during shipping.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
25 Dec. 2025
Noun
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The cash option is a one-time, lump-sum payment that is equal to all the cash in the Mega Millions jackpot prize pool.—
Tanya Wildt,
Freep.com,
7 Feb. 2026
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Caglianone took his lumps — most noticeably charted by his chase rate outside the strike zone — in short order.—
Jaylon Thompson,
Kansas City Star,
7 Feb. 2026
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“Dollop.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dollop. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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