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humdinger

[huhm-ding-er] / ˈhʌmˈdɪŋ ər /


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And now a warning: you will soon be entering the withdrawal phase of your retirement having made a humdinger of your accumulation phase, and that will incur taxes.

From MarketWatch May 21, 2026

Early voting began this week in Texas’s humdinger of a Senate primary, where the intrigue is what isn’t happening on the Democratic side.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 18, 2026

Now this humdinger of a row with Rupert Lowe.

From BBC Mar. 10, 2025

The past few episodes have been preparing us for a real humdinger of a ceremony, which is currently either going to be Marcia’s “three-day grief-a-thon” or Connor’s “tight 90.”

From New York Times May 8, 2023

“Ay, hey there! Hoo-wee, I bet dis a humdinger of a lecture if it can get old Jelly Belly out of city hall. Dey ain’t serving food, is dey?”

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland




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