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as in assembled
to bring together in one body or place
when we lumped all of our pocket change together, we found that we had just enough a buy a carton of ice cream
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as in shuffled
to move heavily or clumsily
while I was on crutches, I was lumping about the house like an elephant
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Recent Examples of lumped
If anecdotal evidence is anything to go by, the tens of millions of viewers tuning into Fox every day for the soccer spectacle can be lumped into a single body, inasmuch as everybody—as in, like, everybody—seems to dislike Lalas … or at least the version of himself that he’s ginned up for TV.
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Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
24 June 2026
We’re often lumped under the umbrella of the Asian American and Pacific Islander community.
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Ryan MacAsero,
Mercury News,
12 June 2026
The Crisis Alternative Response Evanston, or CARE, team responds to calls that, before July 2024, would have been lumped into police calls.
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Megan De Mar,
CBS News,
9 June 2026
And when lumped in with the overall textile stream, global recycling for footwear remains below 1 percent.
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Jennifer Bringle,
Footwear News,
3 June 2026
Which means a licensed clinical social worker with a decade of clinical experience, training in ethics and boundaries, and the ability to recognize a client in crisis gets lumped into the same category as someone who completed a weekend online certification.
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Megan Bruneau,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
Shares climbed almost 12% over the five-day stretch as Wall Street analysts issued bullish calls and the market continued to come around to our idea that cybersecurity names are not threatened by AI adoption and should not be lumped in with general-purpose enterprise software stocks.
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Morgan Chittum,
CNBC,
23 May 2026
Polis even name-checked the program and Colorado’s best-in-the-nation childhood poverty rate in his final State of the State address — albeit, lumped in with a celebration of cuts to property taxes and income taxes.
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Nick Coltrain,
Denver Post,
13 May 2026
And a reshaped district in parts of western Virginia would have lumped together three Democratic-leaning college towns to offset other Republican voters.
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David A. Lieb,
Chicago Tribune,
8 May 2026
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
24 June 2026
We’re often lumped under the umbrella of the Asian American and Pacific Islander community.
—
Ryan MacAsero,
Mercury News,
12 June 2026
The Crisis Alternative Response Evanston, or CARE, team responds to calls that, before July 2024, would have been lumped into police calls.
—
Megan De Mar,
CBS News,
9 June 2026
And when lumped in with the overall textile stream, global recycling for footwear remains below 1 percent.
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Jennifer Bringle,
Footwear News,
3 June 2026
Which means a licensed clinical social worker with a decade of clinical experience, training in ethics and boundaries, and the ability to recognize a client in crisis gets lumped into the same category as someone who completed a weekend online certification.
—
Megan Bruneau,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
Shares climbed almost 12% over the five-day stretch as Wall Street analysts issued bullish calls and the market continued to come around to our idea that cybersecurity names are not threatened by AI adoption and should not be lumped in with general-purpose enterprise software stocks.
—
Morgan Chittum,
CNBC,
23 May 2026
Polis even name-checked the program and Colorado’s best-in-the-nation childhood poverty rate in his final State of the State address — albeit, lumped in with a celebration of cuts to property taxes and income taxes.
—
Nick Coltrain,
Denver Post,
13 May 2026
And a reshaped district in parts of western Virginia would have lumped together three Democratic-leaning college towns to offset other Republican voters.
—
David A. Lieb,
Chicago Tribune,
8 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lumped
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When compute, storage, and networking are designed, validated, and delivered as one system rather than assembled from parts that were never built to work together, the entire stack reaches production on a single timeline.
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Many of the drones can be assembled domestically, but Hezbollah is reliant on components from abroad.
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The resulting 6° to 7° C of global warming shuffled the makeup of plant and dinosaur species on land and caused a mass extinction of corals and other marine species.
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The company has since shuffled several leaders, including naming a new human resources chief and the company’s first chief digital officer.
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Link to earlier discovery The new findings come less than a year after Perseverance examined a rock called Cheyava Falls, which scientists described as one of the most intriguing samples collected on Mars.
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Last year, a petition to halt Big Bear Lake’s annual fireworks display collected more than 40,000 signatures from people concerned that the event would disturb the area’s famous bald eagle couple, Jackie and Shadow.
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On Monday night, a 39-year-old man wearing a Spurs jersey was stomped and punched after Game 3 while walking down West 47th Street, about 15 blocks from the arena.
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It's been 33 years since Jurassic Park first stomped into theaters, and blockbusters haven't been the same since.
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The Democratic convention comes two weeks after state Republicans gathered in Houston, an event that featured statewide candidates urging party unity after a bruising primary season.
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At the Old Lisbon restaurant in Aventura, fans have gathered to cheer on the Portuguese team.
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Once seen as the Fox News for the next generation of conservatives, the Daily Wire has stumbled over the last several years.
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Through a connection, Jobs stumbled upon what was then the computer animation division of Star Wars creator George Lucas’ production company Lucasfilm and was immediately impressed, wrote Walter Isaacson in his biography of the Apple cofounder.
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It often gets grouped with convertible clothing, which covers pieces that change in other ways, like zip-off legs or adjustable lengths.
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It’s organized by season, which is appropriate since farmers markets are the epitome of seasonality, and the recipes are grouped by key ingredient.
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Mesa ran on first movement, but Jensen corralled a 95 mph sinker and made an accurate throw to Royals second baseman Michael Massey covering the bag.
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About 10 minutes later, Senegal was having trouble clearing the ball out of its own half when Norway’s Patrick Berg corralled it.
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“Lumped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lumped. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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