: a low raised ridge across a roadway (as in a parking lot) to limit vehicle speed
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But the fruit hit some speed bumps on its path to ubiquity.—Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2025 Especially speed bumps, expansion joints, and washboard-like surfaces, which shows that Aston Martin probably spent a lot of time perfecting the dampers’ compression tuning.—Peter Nelson, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025 Their attempt at recreating said movie magic hits some speed bumps.—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 21 May 2025 Those choices will likely dictate whether the ultimate story of this recent two-season stretch is more of a speed bump on the road to further success or a pothole that sent them careening off the highway.—John Hollinger, New York Times, 2 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for speed bump
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