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
"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
“We identified a bit with the animal, which is also chubby like us,” Lizarraga said when asked by a Mexican radio station about the origin of the name.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026
She takes his small hand in hers, a chubby star against her broad palm.
From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed
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“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
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
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
And his brother is chubbier and called Marmeluc, which is a ridiculous name if you ask me.
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
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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
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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
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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
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Pressed against her knee stood the dirtiest and chubbiest four-year-old child on the borders of Brevoort Lake—perhaps the dirtiest on the north shore of Michigan.
From The Cursed Patois From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899 by Mary Hartwell Catherwood