jumbo
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Items such as large-screen TVs and jumbo bags of dog food will need manual assistance for the foreseeable future, he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
In his piece this week, Adam Chandler writes that the frugality of Costco’s free samples and jumbo boxes of all manner of things serves as a unifying quality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
The equivalent of a jumbo jet full of people has vanished.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
The cost of a jumbo loan might be expected to be higher because Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac don’t guarantee them, and they pose a higher risk to lenders.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026
The Hearth & Home employees went ballistic and swung their arms like they were waving in a jumbo jet.
From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry
Rakesh Reddy told AFP that seven jumbos were killed, and one elephant sustained an injury.
From Barron's ● Dec. 20, 2025
An average of 158 people per flight, plus security, would require the equivalent of five jumbos to be available all year around.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2025
It will hold 25% more volume than Boeing’s existing freighter and is emerging as an heir to the plane-maker’s humpbacked 747 jumbos that have hauled goods across the North Pacific for decades.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 13, 2021
Lewinsky told her official biographer that Tripp had the jumbos because she wanted to appear loyal to the administration.
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2018
All my cousins would gather in the courtyard between my house and Geoffrey’s house to kick the soccer ball—made from plastic shopping bags we called jumbos, which we then bound in twine.
From "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind" by William Kamkwamba
