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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 one of them, the star just looks like a big sort of fuzzy blob.
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Jeffrey Kluger/greenbelt, TIME, 8 Feb. 2025
For example, Cookie Scriver, Pete’s daughter, is represented as a chocolate chip cookie with legs, while other children appear as colorful blobs with wild hair or inanimate objects with faces.
—Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 1 Feb. 2025
One of your machines—the one that cuts the dough into tiny trees—passed its manual maintenance check a few months ago but suddenly begins producing amorphous blobs of dough instead of crisp, clean cuts.
—Bill Rokos, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025
What could have been a drab ten-story block surrounded by pavement instead became a low, deep, black-glass blob—reflective in the day, glowing at night—that filled the whole lot, following the curves of medieval streets.
—Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
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Jeffrey Kluger/greenbelt, TIME, 8 Feb. 2025
For example, Cookie Scriver, Pete’s daughter, is represented as a chocolate chip cookie with legs, while other children appear as colorful blobs with wild hair or inanimate objects with faces.
—Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 1 Feb. 2025
One of your machines—the one that cuts the dough into tiny trees—passed its manual maintenance check a few months ago but suddenly begins producing amorphous blobs of dough instead of crisp, clean cuts.
—Bill Rokos, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025
What could have been a drab ten-story block surrounded by pavement instead became a low, deep, black-glass blob—reflective in the day, glowing at night—that filled the whole lot, following the curves of medieval streets.
—Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for blob
Noun
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Carter also voided leases of large chunks of the campus to UCLA and the private Brentwood School.—
Doug Smith,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Feb. 2025
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Miami relied on its press-zone defense for a large chunk of the game.—
Anthony Chiang,
Miami Herald,
27 Feb. 2025
Noun
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People generally fall into two camps: those who enjoy the taste and ‘mouthfeel’ and those who view eating them as akin to swallowing a large glob of phlegm.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
21 Jan. 2025
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What does mold look like? When thinking about mold in the home, the image of fuzzy green globs clinging to old bread may come to mind.—
Bridget Reed Morawski,
Architectural Digest,
14 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Mapmakers draw absurd lines, snaking down back alleys to grab small clumps of partisans.—
Jim Nowlan,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Feb. 2025
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Clouds of dust and gas floating in space called nebulae eventually begin to coalesce into clumps.—
Joshua Rapp Learn,
Discover Magazine,
25 Feb. 2025
Noun
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To use, just shake the bottle to ensure all the beads are suspended and dispersed throughout the bottle.—
Kiana Murden,
Vogue,
7 Mar. 2025
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Made from a variety of materials, from olive tree wood from the Holy Land to plastic beads, the prayer chain serves as a tool for devotion and meditation.—
Tommy Tuberville,
Newsweek,
6 Mar. 2025
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This popular brand found at most grocery stores is a bit chewy and has some hunks of fat that don’t cook out, but the hit of fennel is a win.—
Jolene Thym,
The Mercury News,
19 Feb. 2025
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On December 27, 2024, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, detected a hunk of space rock approximately 828,800 kilometers (515,000 miles) from Earth.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
30 Jan. 2025
Noun
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For inspiration, the pair looked to Venus and its thick cloud layer made of tiny sulfuric acid droplets.—
Leslie Katz,
Forbes,
6 Mar. 2025
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The room-temperature droplets stuck to all the surfaces as expected, but the hot and burning droplets bounced.—
Jennifer Ouellette,
Ars Technica,
3 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Its cover — a black-and-white photo depicting more than a dozen Black men, boys, and babies waving wads of cash and liquor bottles over the corpse of a white judge on the lawn of Obama’s White House — was a provocation tailor-made for the Black Lives Matter movement, which was then in full swing.—
Zak Cheney-Rice,
Vulture,
29 Jan. 2025
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For now, Match Group is hoping to appease shareholders by throwing wads of cash at them.—
Brett Owens,
Forbes,
19 Jan. 2025
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Both can make tasty drip coffee that would please any connoisseur.—
Matthew Korfhage,
WIRED,
7 Mar. 2025
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Grab a cup of good drip coffee at Stardust Vide & Coffee, a honey-pistachio latte at Lobos Coffee, or a strong cortado at Lineage Coffee.—
Kelsey Glennon,
Southern Living,
5 Mar. 2025
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“Blob.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blob. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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