whopping

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An arbitration panel ruled in his favor, and awarded him a whopping $4.25 million in a case that’s become known as “the salami incident.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 25, 2026

But the emerging market’s benchmark rates are at a whopping 14.5% compared with 3.5% to 3.75% in the U.S.

From Barron's • Jun. 15, 2026

The cheaper tickets for the final are going for a whopping $10,000, and it is even more for the better seats.

From Salon • Jun. 14, 2026

Airfares increased about 7% between April and May and a whopping 27% year over year, making the high cost of long-haul flights one likely culprit for the domestic-travel trend.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026

Pennsylvania one year paid out $90,000 in bounties for the killing of 130,000 owls and hawks to save the state’s farmers a slightly less than whopping $1,875 in estimated livestock losses.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson