chubby
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It still has Bob’s Big Boy, the last restaurant of a once-large chain known for its chubby mascot, and Milt & Edie’s, a quirky pink-awninged 24-hour tailor and dry cleaner dating to the 1980s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
"This goes out to them, my family and all the girls with ruffled socks and chubby cheeks. It means the world."
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
Soon after he was spotted, a San Francisco-based Redditor named Des Tan called him Chonker, a play on chonky, which is slang for humorously chubby, and it stuck.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026
In early scenes, he has a small curved line denoting a chubby chin, which changes over time to straight lines on each cheek, narrowing his face when he is old and infirm.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 16, 2026
A faded memory flashes through my mind of Dad holding my tiny, chubby hand, the two of us looking on helplessly as she laced up her boots and adjusted her silk scarf.
From "Warcross" by Marie Lu
“Modeling was performing, but I had braces and noticed I was chubbier than everybody else, creating new anxieties. To be 11, 12, and 13 just sucked.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026
The defendant was chubbier than I remembered, with a mustache that made him look like Lt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2024
They’re so intent on nourishing their chicks that the fledglings grow larger and chubbier than their parents by the time of the winter migration south.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 12, 2022
Photo by Thomas Ricker / The Verge The Elecjet Apollo Ultra is also chubbier than my reference battery despite holding the same number of electrons.
From The Verge ● Nov. 10, 2021
And his brother is chubbier and called Marmeluc, which is a ridiculous name if you ask me.
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
That little dude sucks it right out of you like the world’s chubbiest and least stealthy vampire.
From Slate ● May 4, 2012
In the tiny Kentish village of Barham, the proud members of the pig war club informed her that their chubbiest, pinkest piglet was named Franklin.
From Time Magazine Archive
But, like hiring Hell's Angels to work security, relying on the continent's chubbiest rodents to put your landscape in order is not always a good idea.
From Time Magazine Archive
She had two of the world’s rosiest, chubbiest cheeks, which no one could keep from touching.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
This young Blackfoot had the broadest, chubbiest face the boys had ever seen, and the grin on it seemed to touch each ear.
From Deerfoot in The Mountains by John Steeple Davis
