: along with being : and
—used to form usually hyphenated phrases
… he is a credible mining camp elder-cum-publican.—
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw… Christian and Christian-cum-voodoo churches …—David Binder
David Binderoften vulgar, less common spelling of come entry 1 sense 2j, come entry 2
cumulative
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Literary Hub, 25 Nov. 2025
The amount of money these disruptors-cum-media lords will fling around in order to get their paws all over fans’ data will be obscene, and the owners will want to wallow in it like hogs in the yummiest slop.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 21 Nov. 2025
Organized by a slew of leading Japanese menswear companies, the event — now in its seventh iteration — is a city stroll-cum-impromptu-runway show of men decked out in full sartorial looks that has already taken place in Tokyo, Osaka and Seoul, among other cities.
—Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 5 Nov. 2025
That’s a very different movie from Dracula, despite sharing a genre label of horror, but the Cairnes and their producers-cum-VFX artists viewed AI the same way Jude does now.
—Andy Crump, Time, 31 Oct. 2025
In Jodie Foster’s satire-cum-thriller, George Clooney plays a Jim Cramer-ish TV finance guru whose bullish promotion of one stock has led desperate prole Jack O’Connell to lose his life savings, leading to a hostage standoff in the TV studio.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2025
The space, which was once a closet and then a bedroom, became a multipurpose bathing room-cum-library.
—Leonora Epstein, Architectural Digest, 1 Oct. 2025
Considering the show’s audience, the decision to turn the story of 1066 into a family melodrama-cum-colonial parable starts to make sense.
—Will Collins, The Washington Examiner, 19 Sep. 2025
Nearly a decade later, the Whites and that presidential speechwriter-cum-screenwriter, Patrick Cunnane, are heading to TIFF with the A24 feature Eternity.
—Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
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Among the totems, knickknacks, and ephemera in Will Shortz’s home-cum-museum, and one of his favorite items, is a copy of the 1924 book inscribed by Dick Simon and Max Schuster, sent to its source of inspiration.
—Literary Hub, 25 Nov. 2025
The amount of money these disruptors-cum-media lords will fling around in order to get their paws all over fans’ data will be obscene, and the owners will want to wallow in it like hogs in the yummiest slop.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 21 Nov. 2025
Organized by a slew of leading Japanese menswear companies, the event — now in its seventh iteration — is a city stroll-cum-impromptu-runway show of men decked out in full sartorial looks that has already taken place in Tokyo, Osaka and Seoul, among other cities.
—Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 5 Nov. 2025
That’s a very different movie from Dracula, despite sharing a genre label of horror, but the Cairnes and their producers-cum-VFX artists viewed AI the same way Jude does now.
—Andy Crump, Time, 31 Oct. 2025
In Jodie Foster’s satire-cum-thriller, George Clooney plays a Jim Cramer-ish TV finance guru whose bullish promotion of one stock has led desperate prole Jack O’Connell to lose his life savings, leading to a hostage standoff in the TV studio.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2025
The space, which was once a closet and then a bedroom, became a multipurpose bathing room-cum-library.
—Leonora Epstein, Architectural Digest, 1 Oct. 2025
Considering the show’s audience, the decision to turn the story of 1066 into a family melodrama-cum-colonial parable starts to make sense.
—Will Collins, The Washington Examiner, 19 Sep. 2025
Nearly a decade later, the Whites and that presidential speechwriter-cum-screenwriter, Patrick Cunnane, are heading to TIFF with the A24 feature Eternity.
—Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
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“Cum.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cum. Accessed 30 Nov. 2025.
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