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
"In Neapolitan culture, if a child is a little chubby with rosy cheeks, people often think they're healthy."
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 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
Great Ellen loved to tell the story: how small Sparrow had beelined across the gallery on chubby hands and knees to the orchids that hadn’t bloomed since the Carnage.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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
Right now, I look like a chubbier, “woke Mitt Romney”—not my term.
From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2020
A somewhat addicting habit/hobby that started in his early, chubbier days as a Mariner has now left few parts of his typically exposed skin without some sort of permanent marking, meaningful or otherwise.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 15, 2018
She had grown chubbier, and she didn’t like the outdoors, maybe because it might muss her beehive hairdo.
From "Kira-Kira" by Cynthia Kadohata
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
Well, once on a time, one of the most innocent-looking, chubbiest, and shaggiest of Shetland ponies—a dark brown one—stood at the door of a mansion in the west-end of London.
From Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished A Tale of City Arab Life and Adventure by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
