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glob

[glob] / glɒb /
NOUN
thick lump
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If eaten in the right order, locals say, fresh notes should emerge with each glob on the flight: caramel, custard and finally, an almost alcoholic bitterness heralding the Musang King.

From BBC Jan. 10, 2026

"It represents who I am, I think," said Braathen, who left the Norwegian set-up in 2023 after clinching the World Cup slalom crystal glob and announced his link-up with the Brazilian federation in March 2024.

From Barron's Nov. 16, 2025

“Not, put it on the baseball, not glob the baseball with it, but put a little pine tar on their fingertips and give them a little better adherence to the baseball.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 20, 2025

"It's basically a glob of randomness," Xue said.

From Science Daily Jan. 4, 2024

The next day she smushed the clay into a big glob and left it on the drafting table.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls

Despite the warnings, I have removed satisfying globs of wax.

From Slate Jul. 26, 2025

The scorching heat melted the glass awards her daughter had received for her theater performances, leaving behind deformed globs of crystal.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 30, 2025

“It’s going to come off in globs, but also leave some remnants.”

From Seattle Times Jun. 3, 2024

Today she reaches the peak of her canvases by riding a scissor lift, which sits behind her worktable, its metal bars speckled with globs of paint in many different colors.

From New York Times Feb. 29, 2024

The cookies are huge—like, it looks like someone put four globs of cookie dough too close to one another on the tray and a mega cookie happened.

From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera




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