chunk
Example Sentences
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For many filmgoers though, he was simply the best-looking cinema star in the world - once described as "a chunk of Mount Rushmore levered into stonewashed denims".
From BBC
Tensions from the affair had distracted Nestlé’s upper management for much of Freixe’s 12 months in charge, according to people familiar with the matter, and tore a chunk out of its top ranks.
That leaves the silver held above ground—in vaults, jewelry boxes, kitchen drawers and coin collections—to fulfill a chunk of the additional demand.
“Chat a while longer, and your sandwich order may be augmented with little tastes of dishes that come up in conversation—a chunk of pork cheek, a few slices of cotechino sausage.”
While it’s difficult to know when exactly funds will invest all of that money, they’ll deploy at least some chunk of it next year.
From Barron's
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