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  • adjective comparative form of bulky: more bulky

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Examples

  • Fotografix is astoundingly tiny — a mere 680k when unpacked — for offering features usually only found in bulkier and more advanced editors like image layer, custom brushes and advanced colour and image correction tools.

    Fotografix Sports Big Editing Power In A Tiny Footprint | Lifehacker Australia 2009

  • Optical zoom could also make the iPhone bulkier, which is something Apple would not want to do.

    PCWorld 2010

  • If this UMD drive add-on is going to make the PSP Go "bulkier," then doesn't that defeat half the purpose of buying (or upgrading to) a PSP Go in the first place?

    1UP RSS feed 2009

  • If this UMD drive add-on is going to make the PSP Go "bulkier," then doesn't that defeat half the purpose of buying (or upgrading to) a PSP Go in the first place?

    1UP RSS feed 2009

  • My original issues of The Dark Knight and The Killing Joke are on this shelf, for example -- I wouldn't feel good about putting them on a "reference" shelf where they could get knocked around by the bulkier hardcovers.

    Send Us Your Shelf Porn! | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment 2009

  • TV networks, meanwhile, see an easy way to pad their profits by getting TV providers to spend subscribers 'money and add more of their channels to ever-bulkier programming bundles.

    Cablevision-Fox spat sure to draw sequels Rob Pegoraro 2010

  • Case in point: sweater versus lightweight jacket: a sweater makes me look lumpier than I am (and bulkier too) but a well tailored jacket with some feminine detail, nips in where it needs to in order to give the illusion of a good figure.

    Alfred Augustus Glendening 1861-1903 2009

  • He split his week in the meeting rooms of both the running backs and tight ends, and though he came to camp a bit bulkier and stronger, he's been kept only with the tight ends thus far as the team gives Pittsburgh fullback Henry Hynoski a long look.

    A Giant Concern: Tight End Aditi Kinkhabwala 2011

  • Google Fusion tables is fantastic for mapping out bulky datasets and they don't come much bulkier than this.

    Wikileaks Iraq: data journalism maps every death Simon Rogers 2010

  • I'm sure it will be, because if you look at what we had 10 years ago – my god, it was much bulkier and so much slower.

    John Legend: 'A personal flying machine would be great' Stuart O'Connor 2010

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