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
Even for a president accustomed to making grandiose statements, this one was a whopper.
From Salon ● Feb. 12, 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
The answer, in a report now circulating through City Hall, is a whopper: $21.7 billion over a decade.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2024
The bad part was, I had a nightmare, and even by my standards it was a whopper.
From "The Titan's Curse" by Rick Riordan
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
Lead researcher Ivo Labbe of Australia’s Swinburne University of Technology and his team expected to find little baby galaxies this close to the dawn of the universe — not these whoppers.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 22, 2023
"Those inflation numbers were absolute whoppers, big big upside surprise to the numbers," Chris Scicluna, head of research at Daiwa Capital Markets, said.
From Reuters ● Mar. 30, 2022
Of all her whoppers, this was Grandma’s crowning achievement.
From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
