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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
Milky, creamy blobs of mozzarella are melted over the top with plenty of torn basil.
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Jenn Harris,
Los Angeles Times,
6 July 2026
The other claims that early Earth was too hot for rigid plates, and that crust instead formed above mantle plumes rising from deep within the planet, a phenomenon comparable, Johnson said, to the wax blobs rising inside a lava lamp.
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Jacek Krywko,
ArsTechnica,
5 July 2026
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
Jenn Harris,
Los Angeles Times,
6 July 2026
The other claims that early Earth was too hot for rigid plates, and that crust instead formed above mantle plumes rising from deep within the planet, a phenomenon comparable, Johnson said, to the wax blobs rising inside a lava lamp.
—
Jacek Krywko,
ArsTechnica,
5 July 2026
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.
—
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blobs
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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 floor-length Maggi dress was delicately hand-embroidered with pink glass cut beads.
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Kravitz, who is engaged to Swift’s ex Harry Styles, wore a short mesh black dress with gold, silver and black beads adorned from top to bottom.
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Protostars are born when patches in vast molecular clouds cool and form clumps, collapsing under their gravity.
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Otherwise, the excess moisture will cause the blueberries to freeze into clumps.
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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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Notably, the blush-pink design was covered in more than 16,000 glass droplets as a nod to Sophia Loren.
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Even small water droplets or airborne debris can damage the protective coatings, radomes, windows, and other critical parts.
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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 7 Jul. 2026.
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