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- adverb In a
whopping way;hugely ,enormously .
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Examples
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To be more charitable, let's figure it as a percentage of just the deficit -- where it adds up to a whoppingly large one-quarter of one one-hundredth of one percent of the deficit -- 0.0027%.
Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points [150] -- A Fortean Week Chris Weigant 2011
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To be more charitable, let's figure it as a percentage of just the deficit -- where it adds up to a whoppingly large one-quarter of one one-hundredth of one percent of the deficit -- 0.0027%.
Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points [150] -- A Fortean Week Chris Weigant 2011
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And in our case, of course, it is whoppingly negative.
Pearlstein: Steering U.S.-China economic relations toward a new normal 2010
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He favors small, family-run enterprises that produce wines in a big, modern style, and he can find elegance and grace in wine with whoppingly high alcohol.
Wine: More books worth giving Dave McIntyre 2010
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He favors small, family-run enterprises that produce wines in a big, modern style, and he can find elegance and grace in wine with whoppingly high alcohol.
Wine: More books worth giving Dave McIntyre 2010
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Walmart and Toyota have infinite influence upon the whoppingly fat and happy oil folks?
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Carrie, the 1976 movie directed by Brian DePalma, written by Lawrence D. Cohen and based on the first novel by Stephen King, is one of the most whoppingly effective fairy tales ever made for adults.
Susan Kim: Fairy Tales, Child Development, And Unconscious Learning 2009
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The writing team of Mike Werb and Michael Colleary have taken this cartoon-metaphysical premise - what if Good and Evil exchanged bodies in a fight to the death - and wrung some whoppingly clever complications from it.
His Own Worst Enemy 2008
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As the Doha trade talks continue to flounder on the impossibility of the US and EU significantly reducing farm subsidies, and as our Congress passes another whoppingly grotesque farm bill, it is perhaps instructive to consider the Kiwis.
Consider the Kiwi 2007
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As the Doha trade talks continue to flounder on the impossibility of the US and EU significantly reducing farm subsidies, and as our Congress passes another whoppingly grotesque farm bill, it is perhaps instructive to consider the Kiwis.
Archive 2007-08-01 2007
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