whopper
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The retired engineer still made a whopper of a mistake when Lufthansa emailed him about a flight-schedule change last summer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026
You have invested so prodigiously that you have left yourself with a whopper of a tax bill if you were to withdraw large sums now.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2025
The answer, in a report now circulating through City Hall, is a whopper: $21.7 billion over a decade.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2024
Telling such an obvious whopper to a jury seems like it will backfire by making them believe the defense attorneys are just liars.
From Salon ● May 6, 2024
No one knows quite how big it was other than that it was a whopper.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
In fact, out of the seven La Niñas seen over the last 15 years, three were whoppers when it came to rain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2025
That part of the Middle East doesn’t get many storms, but when it does, they are whoppers that dwarf what people in the United States are used to, Maue said.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 17, 2024
Watching him get away with telling big ol' whoppers every night is part of the thrill they get in watching him.
From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2023
"Those inflation numbers were absolute whoppers, big big upside surprise to the numbers," Chris Scicluna, head of research at Daiwa Capital Markets, said.
From Reuters ● Mar. 30, 2022
Of all her whoppers, this was Grandma’s crowning achievement.
From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
