Examples of whopping in a Sentence
The play was a whopping success.
The car sped by at a whopping 110 miles per hour.
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The result is an altering of the model weight by a whopping 216, degrading model accuracy from 80 percent to 0.1 percent, said Gururaj Saileshwar, an assistant professor at the University of Toronto and co-author of an academic paper demonstrating the attack.
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ArsTechnica, 14 July 2025
State Farm is raising homeowners insurance rates in Illinois by a whopping 27.2% beginning Aug. 15, according to a filing with the state last month.
—Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 14 July 2025
In 2021, India bought a whopping 611 tonnes of gold jewelry; in comparison, the next-biggest region, the Middle East, bought 241 tonnes.
—Ramishah Maruf, CNN Money, 13 July 2025
In another report by the U.S. Department of Labor, in 2023, Black women in the U.S. missed out on a whopping $42.7 billion in wages compared to white men.
—Sughnen Yongo, Forbes.com, 13 July 2025
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ArsTechnica, 14 July 2025
State Farm is raising homeowners insurance rates in Illinois by a whopping 27.2% beginning Aug. 15, according to a filing with the state last month.
—Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 14 July 2025
In 2021, India bought a whopping 611 tonnes of gold jewelry; in comparison, the next-biggest region, the Middle East, bought 241 tonnes.
—Ramishah Maruf, CNN Money, 13 July 2025
In another report by the U.S. Department of Labor, in 2023, Black women in the U.S. missed out on a whopping $42.7 billion in wages compared to white men.
—Sughnen Yongo, Forbes.com, 13 July 2025
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“Whopping.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/whopping. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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whopping
adjective
whop·ping
ˈhwäp-iŋ 
ˈwäp-
: extremely large
got a whopping increase in his allowance
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