bulk
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2.7
- noun
- /bʌlk/
:
la mayor parte
- Oral history provided the bulk of the information during my field study.
- make up the bulk
- account for the bulk
- the bulk of literature
The sandbags, like, like it's the bulk of the weight.
- The sandbags, like, like it's the bulk of the weight.
- Does AI do away with a big bulk of creative writers?
- And but the vast bulk of it is now for charity.
- Last tour I went online, I spent the bulk of the tour not drinking.
- Like, you know, crew is the bulk of your cost always.
- You need to get the you know, that's, that's the bulk of our food.
- Those are the bulk of what I've been uploading and releasing.
- McDonald's doesn't actually make the bulk of their money on selling you Mcnuggets.
- You can wear your store value in called jewelry, but the bulk of it is stored in vaults.
- And I think that's a the bulk of most film makers.
- And he did write a lot that that's the bulk of his, his, his writing actually.
- And as I said, I'll talk about that in the bulk part of the lecture.
Examples
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After years of research, the scientists published results that accounted for the bulk of the data collected.
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The state of Michigan produced the bulk of the peppermint crop in the United States.
Fiction book (1990) -
Last tour I went online, I spent the bulk of the tour not drinking.
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And but the vast bulk of it is now for charity.
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The whole human race has spent the bulk of its time farming.
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These banks and their stockholders control the greater bulk of wealth in America.
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Santiago was the first island to be colonized and where the bulk of agricultural production takes place.
Academic text (2008) -
The report indicates that the bulk of our sales come from online customers.
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Experts believe that the bulk of climate change effects will be observed in coastal areas.
Synonyms
∞
2.1
More than half of the people or things in a group
Antonyms
Compounds
- Texting
Large amounts of email sent at once to many people, often ads or unwanted messages
- Specialized
A measure of how hard a material is to compress, using the pressure change divided by the change in volume
How Much
Surface Forms
Etymology
Bulk comes from an old Norse word bulki meaning 'lump' or 'mass'. So the bulk of something is its main 'mass' or the largest part.