Bunch
Bunch noun - A considerable amount.
Usage example: I have a bunch of thoughts on the matter, so grab a notepad
Strain
Strain noun - The line of ancestors from whom a person is descended.
How words are described
| original | original bunch | original strain |
| single | single bunch | single strain |
| nasty | nasty bunch | nasty strain |
| real | real bunch | real strain |
| Other adjectives: massive, big, serious, enormous, huge, dangerous, new, last, different, eponymous. | ||
Common collocations
| amounts | bunch amounts | strain amounts |
Both words in one sentence
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Due to the constant war, constant strain on resources, overpopulation, and loss of technology, the Imperium has quickly found that the one resource it does have for free are human bodies that keep breeding more and more like a bunch of tyranids.
- A solid example appears in the game [PROTOTYPE], where the resident Doc has to analyze a bunch of genetic material and come up with a functional cure to a weaponized cancer designed specifically to kill Alex Mercer, who is infected with a strain of virus which is also a weaponized super-disease.
Source: Go Wait Outside -
The game does not gloss over the kind of emotional and mental strain that going on a great adventure as well as the general responsibility of saving the world would take on a bunch of small children, such as getting homesick and missing their parents.
Source: Deconstruction
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Strain and Bunch. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/bunch/strain
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