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/bʌntʃ/ · noun
A group of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened together..
a bunch of grapes
a bunch of bananas
a bunch of keys
a bunch of yobs on a street corner
When we had examined this last find, Lord Godalming and Quincey Morris taking accurate notes of the various addresses of the houses in the East and the South, took with them the keys in a great bunch, and set out to destroy the boxes in these places.
I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.
Why do we sometimes find three buses on the same route arriving together at a bus stop? What is the explanation of bunching? […] Meanwhile there are other buses following on the same route. The 600-yard interval between the second and third bus is decreased by every second's delay to the leaders, and before long the third bus has caught up. That is why buses sometimes arrive at the bus stop in bunches.
He still hangs out with the same bunch.
Use bunch when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Bunch means A group of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened together..
Common synonyms include cluster, group, pack, gang.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
a bunch of grapes
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