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
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
Barry always went home with a whopper headache after visiting them.
From "I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005" by Lauren Tarshis
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
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
Other prominent politicians also have been caught telling whoppers on the campaign trail.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 29, 2022
"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
I didn’t have to tell any whoppers for some of the things my dogs did were almost unbelievable anyhow.
From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls
