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jumbo

[juhm-boh] / ˈdʒʌm boʊ /


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“So actually it feels like we’ve made a jumbo purely out of responding to what was in front of us,” he said, “with all of the basic tenets of documentary cinema.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026

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

One trend centered on the “chamoy pickle”—a hollowed-out jumbo dill pickle typically filled with spicy chips or sour candy, coated with the Mexican condiment chamoy and wrapped in a Fruit Roll-Up.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

The 30-year mortgage rate for jumbo loans — mortgages that exceed conforming balances of $832,750 — also rose to 6.72%, up 2 basis points from a week prior.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026

There was a box of chocolate ice-cream pops, a package of chocolate-dipped ice-cream cones, two cans of chocolate drink, and three jumbo chocolate bars.

From "Scream for Ice Cream: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #2" by Carolyn Keene

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


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