Nathan Myhrvold

In market research I did at Microsoft Corp. in the early 1990s, I estimated that the 'Wall Street Journal' took in about 75 cents per copy from subscribers, $1.25 at the newsstand and a whopping $5 per copy from ads. The ad revenue let them run a far bigger newsroom than subscribers were paying for.

American Businessman

Barbara Corcoran

A whopping 89 percent of buyers start their home search online. How your house looks online is the modern equivalent of 'curb appeal.' Rent a wide-angle lens and good lighting, get rid of your clutter and post at least eight great photos to win the beauty contest.

American Businesswoman

Susan Orlean

Who on earth is going to use 'utilize' in a text message, a whopping seven characters including the always-hard-to-type 'z,' when you can say the exact same thing in three characters? I can't think of a sentence in which 'use' can't replace 'utilize.

American Journalist

Martin Jacques

There has always been something less than wholesome about New Labour. But Blair for a long time had an easy ride. There was the whopping majority. There was the relief that the Tories were finally gone. There was the grand hyperbole.

British Journalist

Mark Waid

I think there are things that digital can't do as well as print thus far. Even an iPad is only 80% the size of a standard comics page, so the images are going to be smaller. You don't get your big, whopping two-page spreads.

American Writer

Marcus Samuelsson

Avocados have a creamy texture, making them a healthier replacement for ingredients like butter and mayo in recipes, though they do contain a surprisingly large amount of fat - a whopping 30 grams per medium-sized avocado.

Ethiopian Chef

Bret Stephens

If a public figure tells a whopping lie once in his life, it'll haunt him into his grave. If he lies morning, noon and night, it will become almost impossible to remember any one particular lie.

Cameron Britton

We opened a theater in 2006 called Loft Ensemble in Sherman Oaks. And we write our own plays and do goofy characters and pack a whopping 20 people per night to watch our work.

American Actor

Peter Diamandis

In 2000, just before the first dot-com bubble burst, it cost a whopping $5 million to launch a tech startup.

Kevin Hart

I'm a whopping 5 foot 4 inches tall. I'm not going to get any taller.

Best used in informal settings like casual conversation, not in formal writing or reports.

Colloquial Usage

'Whopping' emphasizes the surprising or impressive nature of something's size or amount.

Emphasis on Size

Although often used for positive emphasis, it can highlight negatives like errors or losses too.

Not Always Positive

 That's it. That's the whole experiment. So this is what we find. Risk tolerance, which is the gambling, we find that when you are in the high-power pose condition, 86 percent of you will gamble. When you're in the low-power pose condition, only 60 percent, and that's a whopping significant difference.

Your body language may...

 From your starting position, walk three blocks south. You need to leave the southernmost street clear for the final stretch, so continuing counterclockwise means going east. Walk two blocks to the eastern wall and you owe a whopping 36 silver.

Can you solve the...

 where a whopping 95 percent of women have experienced harassment while using public transportation. This percentage ranges all over the world, but there's not a single transport system where women do not face this type of harassment.

Naomi Mwaura: A feminist...

 predict based on the end a week Dow Jones average to a whopping eighty six point eight percent of what's going to be hot in popular music that week in terms of the tempo and key and other basic musical characteristics thanks

Viewing nightclubs as a...

 that's okay if failure destroys you then you can't do this I fail all the time every day and I've had some whopping failures I promise we're big public humiliating embarrassing failures everybody points in laughs and he said

Creative houses from...

 both of my methods showed significant support for the fact that male entrepreneurs get asked promotion questions and female entrepreneurs get asked prevention questions. In fact, a whopping 67 percent of the questions posed

The real reason female...

 millions of dark huge winged creatures dominate the skies they're an imposing sight but these black flying foxes are just big harmless bats the biggest in the world their wingspan can reach a whopping six feet

Meet the World's Biggest...

 and what debts you accumulated, you paid off by graduation date. Not anymore. Paul's daughter followed in his footsteps, but with one when she graduated five years ago, it was with a whopping debt.

How college loans...

 The largest can be six metres long and a whopping four tons. I want to see for myself why elephant seals have become super giants. It's important to respect their personal space.

Just How BIG are...

 black flying foxes are just big harmless bats the biggest in the world their wingspan can reach a whopping six feet given that the world's smallest bat