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chubby

[chuhb-ee] / ˈtʃʌb i /


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"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

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

Think gingerbread men, only soft, chubby, and less fearful.

From Salon Feb. 5, 2026

He was back here as a chubby, chatty toddler, not the helpless baby in the NICU.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 23, 2025

She’s a short, chubby woman who wears her hair curled.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas

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

"Don't hold back. If you're chubbier, you're more eye-catching," they sing in one of their hits Stand Up.

From BBC Oct. 14, 2021

Beside him was a chubbier knight, with similar golden curls.

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

Mrs. Magnelius Grandcourt, glittering like a South American scarab, detained her with the smallest and chubbiest hands she had ever seen inside of gloves.

From The Danger Mark by Wenzell, A. B.




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