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bulges

  • plural of bulge.
  • present tense form of bulge (3rd person singular).

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Her prose has an apt amount of literary embellishment: Jaguars are “light-footed dancers” and a snake bulges “like Saint-Exupéry’s hat.”

From The Wall Street Journal May 8, 2026

Still, a buildup bulges outside of the golf course, as security holds fans at the entrance.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 14, 2025

She has keratoconus - a condition where the cornea thins and bulges, causing distorted and blurred vision.

From BBC Oct. 18, 2024

The waves produced visible bulges in the blood vessels, which will aid in mixing the fluid around the brain's cells.

From Science Daily May 29, 2024

I go up the stairs, my face, distant and white and distorted, framed in the hall mirror, which bulges outward like an eye under pressure.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood