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lumps

noun as in grit

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The test, carried out in a harbour in November, demonstrated one approach to mining for polymetallic nodules, potato-sized lumps containing metals scattered on the seabed in vast quantities, in much deeper parts of the ocean.

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But the script lumps the journalists into a pile and barely bothers to reveal the individual sins they’ve committed.

Scientists who recently discovered that metal lumps on the dark seabed make oxygen, have announced plans to study the deepest parts of Earth's oceans in order to understand the strange phenomenon.

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Fatbergs are accumulated lumps of fat from cooking oils, toilet and other food waste that people put down their drains.

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As compared to the three great NFL games on Thanksgiving, the NFL gave us fans TWO lumps of coal instead on Christmas.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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