as in giant
unusually large
a jumbo jet
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as in whale
something that is unusually large and powerful
the winner in the contest for biggest pumpkin was a jumbo that weighed in at over a thousand pounds
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Recent Examples of jumbo
Kasey Caminiti, USA TODAY, 4 Dec. 2024
Credit score: 620 for conventional, 580 for FHA, 540 for VA and USDA, 660 for jumbo, 660 for home equity loans.
—Kelsey Neubauer, CNBC, 2 Dec. 2024
Types of loans Conventional, FHA, VA, USDA, Arrive Home, Zero Down, jumbo, renovation, refinancing, reverse mortgages, home equity loans
Terms
10 to 30 years
Credit needed
540 for FHA, VA and USDA loans; 600 for Zero Down; 620 for conventional loans, 680 for jumbo loans.
—Kelsey Neubauer, CNBC, 2 Dec. 2024
That’s a continuation, albeit a slowdown, of its jumbo, 50-basis-point reduction to the benchmark rate; its first cut in more than four years at the FOMC’s September meeting.
—Rocio Fabbro, Quartz, 7 Nov. 2024
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Noun
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Get 52% off this limited-time Omaha Steaks gift bundle with free burgers, jumbo franks, chicken, apple tartlets and more.
—Kasey Caminiti, USA TODAY, 4 Dec. 2024
Credit score: 620 for conventional, 580 for FHA, 540 for VA and USDA, 660 for jumbo, 660 for home equity loans.
—Kelsey Neubauer, CNBC, 2 Dec. 2024
Types of loans Conventional, FHA, VA, USDA, Arrive Home, Zero Down, jumbo, renovation, refinancing, reverse mortgages, home equity loans
Terms
10 to 30 years
Credit needed
540 for FHA, VA and USDA loans; 600 for Zero Down; 620 for conventional loans, 680 for jumbo loans.
—Kelsey Neubauer, CNBC, 2 Dec. 2024
That’s a continuation, albeit a slowdown, of its jumbo, 50-basis-point reduction to the benchmark rate; its first cut in more than four years at the FOMC’s September meeting.
—Rocio Fabbro, Quartz, 7 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for jumbo
Adjective
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She’s accompanied by Cosmo, a robot with a giant cartoon head and the soulful eyes of someone—or something—that might be more than just a machine.—
Tony Bradley,
Forbes,
14 Mar. 2025
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The surviving robots, meanwhile, got sent to a giant prison colony somewhere in the deserts of the American Southwest.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
14 Mar. 2025
Noun
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When krill numbers fell again, so did the whales’ songs.—
Bloomberg,
The Mercury News,
18 Mar. 2025
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After dealing with whales and black swans and two of every creature on Noah’s Ark, Darren Aronofsky is going back to the animal kingdom for his next film.—
Brian Welk,
IndieWire,
18 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Then try Wilmot’s Warehouse, a strangely cheerful take on working in a gigantic storage warehouse.—
Lewis Gordon,
Vulture,
19 Mar. 2025
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Explaining this, the paper proposes that the gigantic impact which formed the roughly 1,600 mile (2,500 kilometers) wide SPA basin around 4.2 billion years ago modified the chemical and physical properties of the moon's mantle in this region.—
Andrew Jones,
Space.com,
18 Mar. 2025
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Smaller dinosaurs and other creatures were caught in the mud, unable to escape.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes,
21 Mar. 2025
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For this study, the team used a similar technique to the one used to reconstruct dinosaur coloration.—
Stephanie Edwards,
Discover Magazine,
17 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Watching this film will be huge, and then Coach getting on our (butts) will be big for us.—
Colleen Kane,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Mar. 2025
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The Atlanta Braves suffered a huge hit to the roster last season when their ace Spencer Strider went down with a torn UCL.—
Mark Davis,
Newsweek,
17 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Fing turns out to be as much as a destructive monster as Myrtle, who in turn, has to battle it out with the evil animal park owner, The Viscount, who is determined to own this rarest of creatures.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
19 Mar. 2025
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Fing turns out to be as much as a destructive monster as Myrtle, who in turn, must battle it out with the evil animal park owner, The Viscount (Waititi), determined to own this rarest of creatures.—
Lily Ford,
The Hollywood Reporter,
19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Last weekend's enormous storm spun 100 tornadoes so far confirmed by the National Weather Service, which is still conducting surveys.—
John Bacon,
USA TODAY,
20 Mar. 2025
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The property also comes with an enormous 5,282 square feet of garage space and 2,295 square feet of covered porches and loggias.—
David Caraccio,
Sacramento Bee,
20 Mar. 2025
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Engineering The Woolly Mouse—A Mammoth Gene Experiment Bringing back the mammoth is no simple task.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes,
15 Mar. 2025
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Shapiro and her colleagues started by trying to identify the genes responsible for making mammoths distinctive.—
Rob Stein,
NPR,
4 Mar. 2025
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“Jumbo.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jumbo. Accessed 28 Mar. 2025.
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