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chunky

[chuhng-kee] / ˈtʃʌŋ ki /


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Bianco is keen to stress that goods inflation is definitely a problem, but his argument is that these chunky 5.25% bond yields compensate investors for that risk.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

Here, you can sit down at a chunky late-’90s computer and explore the original site yourself.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

At Huxley-Parlour, SaraNoa Mark’s chunky cast-glass sculptures look like fragments of artifacts from an ancient alien civilization.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Across the top, in chunky yellow letters, it reads “Phodega.”

From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026

She's still a little chunky and soft, but it's different.

From "Pride" by Ibi Zoboi

Did “Étoile” scripts feel any bigger or chunkier than “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” or “Gilmore Girls”?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2025

The stitches are bigger, so chunkier yarn is used, and this means blankets can be knitted more quickly than in traditional knitting.

From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2024

From others it seems an elegant high-tech cousin of the Transamerica Pyramid, the chunkier building across the bay.

From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 2023

The earliest pieces, made of cast aluminum, are chunkier and less streamlined, but the artist soon found her enduring mode.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 10, 2023

The Hummingbird, is smaller still, and the Winter Wren measures no more, only he is chunkier.

From Citizen Bird Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners by Louis Agassiz Fuertes

Elliott Hill is trying to regain Nike’s NKE -1.29%decrease; red down pointing triangle lead in the innovation race—and its chunkiest running shoe ever may be the model for getting there, he says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2025

Cut a slice and cozy up under your chunkiest throw blanket.

From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2022

And I was like, “She has, like Julie has to wear the thickest, chunkiest Skechers you’ve ever seen in your own life.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2022

And Boris Johnson has used this occasion to make big changes to the cabinet - the most significant switch coming in one of the chunkiest jobs of all.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2021

And right bang in the center is the chunkiest button of them: the home button, complete with the McLaren logo etched on the front.

From The Verge ● Dec. 29, 2017




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