• He was a magically handsome young man, irresistible to women--"the hunk, " the press called him.

    CNN: Brought up to be a good man

  • Gluten is the hunk of proteins that turns a ball of crumbling dough into an elastic, yummy ball of bread-to-be.

    FORBES: Gluten-Free Diets: Miracle Or Hype?

  • They began eating, pouring the brown crystallized syrup onto pieces of fried bread, and after a while Nawab went to his motorcycle and pulled from the panniers another hunk of the sugar, challenging the girls to see who would eat most.

    NEWYORKER: Nawabdin Electrician

  • They buy boats that look as if they were extruded from the same hunk of plastic and gather at events like Antigua Sailing Week to brag about how they've cut a few pounds out of their rig by switching to carbon-fiber composites from aluminum.

    FORBES: Two Sheets to the Wind

  • Adding to the excitement - film hunk Shah Rukh Khan is the Santro's celebrity endorser.

    CNN: INDIA'S CAR WARS

  • For fans of former Busted and Fightstar frontman Charlie Simpson, the chance to have the pop-punk hunk play a private gig in your living room may be the ultimate fantasy.

    BBC: Music fans buy a slice of stars

  • But a good hunk of the money ends up in the pockets of coaches.

    FORBES: Beyond Tressel: College Athletics' Real Scandal

  • Engineers designed the dies on paper, and skilled craftsmen used hand-operated machinery to cut the die from a hunk of steel.

    FORBES: A Savior From the East

  • After Mr Halek had begun to liquidate the fund, a hunk of Kotva shares ended up being owned by another of Mr Halek's firms, which then sold them on to a company registered in Cyprus.

    ECONOMIST: Who owns the Czech Harrods?

  • But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.

    FORBES: Elizabeth Warren and the Liberal Narrative

  • Once there, a seaside picnic costs no more than the price of a fresh crusty baguette and a hunk of gooey Camembert, but the sublime feeling of the sun on your face and the sound of the waves crashing nearby is what dreams are made of.

    BBC: Nice on a budget

  • Third, the new U.S.-spec Passat can be had with a choice of three and only three engines, one of which, the base 2.5-liter in-line five-cylinder, is a hunk of lumber pulled from the ribs of an ancient Norse longboat.

    WSJ: 2012 Volkswagen Passat 2.5 SEL Review: Cost-Cutting Done (a Little More) Right | Rumble Seat by Dan Neil

  • In October 1957 the Soviets managed to hoist a 184-pound hunk of metal with a radio transmitter into orbit around the Earth.

    FORBES: The Enemy Beneath

  • Leach offered the role of host to a young Hollywood hunk, who then demanded that he be allowed to bring an entourage on the road.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • The Accord is still a deliberate, substantial hunk of sedan, with a spacious greenhouse, thick flanks and large doors.

    WSJ: 2013 Honda Accord V6 Touring Review: A Renaissance of Radical Reasonableness | Rumble Seat by Dan Neil

  • It had a battery, but imagine setting up this ridiculous hunk of plastic to play on the train, said Konno, who can joke about the defeat now.

    CNN: Mark Milian

  • Codon recently shipped the biggest piece of DNA ever made, a hunk of 35, 000 base pairs, big enough to hold ten genes, to Cambridge biotech Microbia.

    FORBES: Architect of Life

  • There, as well as in other parts of the country, it usually entails a big marbled hunk of pork shoulder, which is prepared using a combination of smoking and slow cooking over a low fire.

    WSJ: Mom-and-Pop Pulled Pork

  • And once per week, my poor mother, now 79, would have to make sure she wasn't wearing her nice clothes as she squeezed past that ancient hunk of Detroit iron to get to the garbage cans.

    FORBES: The Coupe Coup

  • We had a chance to play around with the laptop, and it's pretty snazzy for a hunk of plastic.

    ENGADGET: MacBook goes unibody, available today

  • Toss another hunk of red meat to my legions of carnivorous traders in the TBT, the leveraged ETF that profits from falling Treasury bond prices!

    FORBES: Lunch With the CIA

  • But for those of us who came up in an era when a glossy hunk of paper and ink was a thing to behold, the tangible result of a hardworking group of professionals operating in a weekly cycle that felt as natural and inevitable as the tides, this is a day for memory and regret.

    FORBES: Newsweek and me

  • But in the end, it was his admiration for "Schwachan" ("Adorable Hunk") - as Schwarzenegger is known in Japan - that was his undoing.

    CNN: PEOPLE

  • Tourism is one of the country's most important foreign exchange earners, but the pictures from Lombok of rock-throwing protesters and gangs upending cars will surely wipe out a big hunk of that revenue.

    CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia | Cover: Raging Inferno

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