whopper
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The retired engineer still made a whopper of a mistake when Lufthansa emailed him about a flight-schedule change last summer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026
Maybe the audience knew that was just too big of a whopper.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2026
You have invested so prodigiously that you have left yourself with a whopper of a tax bill if you were to withdraw large sums now.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2025
Telling such an obvious whopper to a jury seems like it will backfire by making them believe the defense attorneys are just liars.
From Salon ● May 6, 2024
She would simply sniff or roll her eyes or shake her head at another whopper.
From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep
With the biggest whoppers selling for upwards of £15 a piece, a fun family day out pushing wheelbarrows full of pumpkins can become costly, yet some attractions sell out quickly.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
In fact, out of the seven La Niñas seen over the last 15 years, three were whoppers when it came to rain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2025
There’s very little she says in “Chimp Crazy” to the lawyers and judges hounding that’s true, but the biggest whoppers she tells highlight her self-delusion.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2024
That part of the Middle East doesn’t get many storms, but when it does, they are whoppers that dwarf what people in the United States are used to, Maue said.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 17, 2024
“And as for telling whoppers, there probably never was your like. You tell some mean stories about dragons.”
From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep
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