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chubby

[chuhb-ee] / ˈtʃʌb i /


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Their faces are vivid, and haunting, whether bearing signs of greying hair and wrinkles, or the long eyelashes and chubby cheeks of a child.

From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026

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

"Fabio looks a bit chubby to me," responded Sutton.

From BBC ● May 7, 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

The chubby one raised his hands as if to say, You’re on your own, my friend.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz

“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

Helena thinks capybaras are “really cute,” Nicoleti said, “and the chubbier the capybara, the more she likes them.”

From Slate ● May 27, 2026

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

His eyebrows are bare, his head is bare, his cheeks are bare as a baby’s bottom—but chubbier.

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

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

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

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 A. B. Wenzell


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