Chunk and Sample

Chunk

Chunk noun - A considerable amount.

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Sample and chunk are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Sample" instead a noun "Chunk".

Nearby Words: chunky, chunked, chunking

Sample noun - A number of things selected from a group to stand for the whole.

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Chunk and sample are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Chunk" instead a noun "Sample".

Nearby Words: sampling, sampler, sampled, samp

known	known chunk	known sample
human	human chunk	human sample
old	old chunk	old sample
good	good chunk	good sample
Other adjectives: brief, original, small, healthy, actual, entire, large, tiny, main, larger, remaining, random, last, sizable, radioactive, frozen, largest.

It's because the sample population "people who switch" is almost entirely composed of "people who are going to save a big chunk of money doing so", or else why would they bother to switch?

Source: Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics
In Roughing It, Mark Twain describes a type: combing an otherwise worthless mine for one tiny chunk of rock containing silver or gold, presenting it to the assay office as an "average" sample, then selling shares in the now grossly overvalued mine.

Source: Pig In A Poke

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