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mouthful

noun as in portion

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Porsha Williams of “The Real Housewives of Atlanta” appears to have gotten a mouthful from a woman on her flight back to Georgia from Las Vegas on Sunday night, her lawyer says.

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She wondered what it might be like to have a mouthful of pebbles.

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In “Violent Saviors” Mr. Easterly indicts an idea he calls “the Development Right of Conquest”—quite the mouthful—which “confers the right to conquer lands on those who bring material progress to these lands.”

"If the trucks stop, a whole country will be switched off," he said, between mouthfuls of rice.

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Tess had a mouthful of dandelions, but that didn’t stop her from speaking.

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