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chunk

[chuhngk] / tʃʌŋk /
NOUN
mass, slab of something
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Antonyms
STRONGEST


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It makes sense to give a chunk of money to your kids, put several other chunks aside for investments, retire in place and enjoy that passive income.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026

Investors have fallen out of love with a large chunk of stocks, such as industrials, and Morgan Stanley sees an opportunity to pick up some names on the cheap.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

Rodriguez has granted Washington access to a huge chunk of the country's crude reserves and signed agreements with foreign companies to look for, produce and export oil and gas.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

His wife eventually died of tuberculosis, and a brokenhearted Vroman, a bibliophile, sold off a chunk of his vast book collection to collect capital to open the store.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

A chunk of the ceiling comes down on Tano, but he reduces the rubble to harmless debris with one swing of the akrafena.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

“I do want to figure out a way to preserve legible chunks of it in some form or other,” said Koelsch, who hopes to commission a new curtain for the 2027-28 season.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

Alcaraz, 23, is one of a number of players to have missed large chunks of the season with injury.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

After World War II, Germany lost large chunks of territory that once stretched as far east as Kaliningrad, now part of Russia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

Large chunks of concrete could be seen scattered around and inside the collapsed area, while orange traffic cones cordoned off the site as workers surveyed the damage.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026

Just off its east coast, deep beneath the seafloor, giant chunks of Earth’s lithosphere and crust are being sucked beneath the country in a process called subduction.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland




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