: 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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Sara Holdren, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2026
While Mi-rae’s Boyfriend on Demand residence may have a Dress to Impress-style walk-in closet and a balcony-cum-living-room reminiscent of Jasmine’s personal quarters in Aladdin, her Seoul apartment is pretty cute too—clean, warm, and with plenty of room.
—Kayti Burt, Time, 6 Mar. 2026
Matières Fécales is a new-ish label founded by Steven Raj Bhaskaran and Hannah Rose Dalton in early 2025 with the support of Dover Street Market, the incubator-cum-retailer arm of Comme des Garçons.
—José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 4 Mar. 2026
Upstairs at Sperm Racing HQ is a lab stocked with racks of test tubes, centrifuges for separating out the most motile sperm from a sample, and little plastic slides containing new microscopic racecourses for frat-boy cum.
—Sam Kriss, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
After a brief stint as an empty lot-cum-parking lot, the property was slated to become an Andaz Hotel, breaking ground around 2015 and then fizzling out a few years later.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Feb. 2026
In another nod to Vionnet, Smith passed up a show in favor of a look book starring model Jean Campbell, and an exhibition-cum-salon at the Mandarin Oriental.
—Violet Goldstone, Footwear News, 20 Feb. 2026
The Croydon rapper moves to maintain this homespun ethos on his debut album Weekend Rockstar, out now on his own label-cum-collective Regularisperfect.
—Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 13 Feb. 2026
The ensemble-cum-chorus, burdened with overblown asylum imagery, is sometimes called upon to inject a circus-like atmosphere, complete with acrobatics.
—Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2026
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Noun
Ro Reddick’s Reagan-era caper-cum-bildungsroman, which had its premiere at last year’s Summerworks and recently took home the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, is a heightened, slippery creature.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2026
While Mi-rae’s Boyfriend on Demand residence may have a Dress to Impress-style walk-in closet and a balcony-cum-living-room reminiscent of Jasmine’s personal quarters in Aladdin, her Seoul apartment is pretty cute too—clean, warm, and with plenty of room.
—Kayti Burt, Time, 6 Mar. 2026
Matières Fécales is a new-ish label founded by Steven Raj Bhaskaran and Hannah Rose Dalton in early 2025 with the support of Dover Street Market, the incubator-cum-retailer arm of Comme des Garçons.
—José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 4 Mar. 2026
Upstairs at Sperm Racing HQ is a lab stocked with racks of test tubes, centrifuges for separating out the most motile sperm from a sample, and little plastic slides containing new microscopic racecourses for frat-boy cum.
—Sam Kriss, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
After a brief stint as an empty lot-cum-parking lot, the property was slated to become an Andaz Hotel, breaking ground around 2015 and then fizzling out a few years later.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Feb. 2026
In another nod to Vionnet, Smith passed up a show in favor of a look book starring model Jean Campbell, and an exhibition-cum-salon at the Mandarin Oriental.
—Violet Goldstone, Footwear News, 20 Feb. 2026
The Croydon rapper moves to maintain this homespun ethos on his debut album Weekend Rockstar, out now on his own label-cum-collective Regularisperfect.
—Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 13 Feb. 2026
The ensemble-cum-chorus, burdened with overblown asylum imagery, is sometimes called upon to inject a circus-like atmosphere, complete with acrobatics.
—Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2026
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