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as in chunk
a small uneven mass
what looked like a hunk of potato in her stew turned out to be a pebble
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Recent Examples of hunk
This year, that whole hunk of beef likely cost a precious penny.
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Susan Selasky, Freep.com, 24 Dec. 2025
With Frankenstein cementing its place in the Best Picture lineup, the unexpected triumph of the Aussie’s last-minute casting is a solid narrative, though the Charles Melton Rule says that a hunk’s place is not secure until their name is physically being read on nomination morning.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2025
And a big hunk of it played a major role in a presidential farewell party.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 17 Dec. 2025
This bread pudding-like bake starts with hunks of challah and bittersweet chocolate.
—Katlyn Moncada, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Dec. 2025
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The Horned Frogs bring back Zach Chapman and Paul Oyewale at defensive end, but need to replace Devean Deal and Jonathan Bax at stud.—
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United were struggling to make those mistakes pay until Thiaw got his studs caught in the turf and fell to the ground.—
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Harris, an Oak Lawn native, actually missed a chunk of her sophomore season with a knee injury but has returned with a consistent vengeance, also averaging 15 points a game as a junior.—
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Barnes ably defended Atlanta big man Kristaps Porziņģis for a good chunk of the first half on Monday, despite playing with two fouls.—
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This Lord of Darkness is a melancholy beefcake carrying the demon spawn of his neglectful lover, President Trump, a rebound from his previous boyfriend, Saddam Hussein.—
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The audience is free to ogle beefcake, but Cope doesn’t get any action.—
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These ads showed images of tractors, mountains of blueberries and a man’s hands massaging a clump of dirt, each segment highlighting a different part of the industry.—
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Divide the clumps every two years and replant some of the bulbs.—
Noun
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Every eyeful was a universe, a cosmos squeezed into a teacup.—
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After sports commentator Nate Burleson stuffed America's collective stocking with an eyeful of bright red Christmas attire on Netflix's NFL Christmas Day livestream, cohost and former Atlanta Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan poked back.—
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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.—
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Finding a small liver wad incredibly difficult.—
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Lined up next to rookie left tackle Josh Simmons and veteran center Creed Humphrey, Suamataia took some lumps in the first two preseason games before settling in for a clean sheet in the third look against the Bears.—
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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.—
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With just a pea-size glob of scat, biologists can genetically decode which individual whale produced the sample.—
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Peanut Butter Boppers Gone but not forgotten, these lunchbox-friendly snacks were essentially globs of peanut butter rolled into tubes and surrounded by candy.—
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“Hunk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hunk. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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