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
Even for a president accustomed to making grandiose statements, this one was a whopper.
From Salon ● Feb. 12, 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
I’m not sure about you, but 2025 has been a whopper of a year so far.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2025
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
There’s very little she says in “Chimp Crazy” to the lawyers and judges hounding that’s true, but the biggest whoppers she tells highlight her self-delusion.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2024
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
Other prominent politicians also have been caught telling whoppers on the campaign trail.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 29, 2022
“And as for telling whoppers, there probably never was your like. You tell some mean stories about dragons.”
From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep
