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- adjective
comparative form ofspongy : morespongy
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Examples
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The East's tightly packed earth crust carried the quake's seismic power farther than an equivalent quake in the West's spongier terrain, according to Lucy Jones, a seismologist at the U.S. Geological Survey.
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The East's tightly packed earth crust carried the quake's seismic power farther than an equivalent quake in the West's spongier terrain, according to Lucy Jones, a seismologist at the U.S. Geological Survey.
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There are three grades: snow-white “lump meat” is solid meat from the body; “flake meat” is small pieces picked from the body; and “claw” meat tends to be slightly spongier and often brown-tinged.
One Big Table Molly O’Neill 2010
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The cake is very moist, and doesn't seem to need a dividing layer of rich icing as a drier, spongier sort might.
Cake Lindy 2009
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As we are using only one egg-white, beating it adequately is required for a spongier cake.
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The cake is very moist, and doesn't seem to need a dividing layer of rich icing as a drier, spongier sort might.
Bananarama Lindy 2006
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Epstein corrects another GDP-related issue, namely, "record" corporate profits as a share of GDP (BEA's National Income and Product Accounts are spongier data than BLS labor data).
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The cake is very moist, and doesn't seem to need a dividing layer of rich icing as a drier, spongier sort might.
Toast: Lindy 2006
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As we are using only one egg-white, beating it adequately is required for a spongier cake.
Archive 2008-06-01 2008
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He must have realized his error, however, because 5 minutes and no check later, he scampered back to us and said, "I guess our version of tempura ice cream is a bit, er, spongier than other restaurants" and smiled.
Archive 2007-11-01 Tokyoastrogirl 2007
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