bumped off

past tense of bump off

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of bumped off There’s a moment in the movie when the Ben Affleck character has bumped off her lover. — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2026 Handre Pollard's grubber was scooped up by center Jesse Kriel, who bumped off two Scots to score. — ABC News, 11 July 2026 Andrew Peeke got bumped off the puck behind the net by Alex Tuch on Thompson’s second goal. — Stephen Conroy, Hartford Courant, 20 Apr. 2026 Midway through, Clinton is bumped off at a monastery while dressed as a monk in Raquel Welch drag, and his guests must unravel the crime. — Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bumped off
Verb
  • Riehle made it to Broadway in 1986 with a role in the Emily Mann drama Execution of Justice, which centered on the trial of Dan White, who assassinated San Francisco mayor George Moscone and city supervisor Harvey Milk in 1978.
    — Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 19 Oct. 2026
  • Earlier that year, King had been assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.
    — Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The flow of money from Qatar into Gaza has taken on new significance since October 7, 2023, when Hamas terrorists stormed southern Israel, murdered some 1,200 people, and took 251 more hostage.
    — Eric Cortellessa, Time, 18 Oct. 2026
  • The child was Leslie Ann Downey, one of five victims murdered by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley between 1963 and 1965.
    — Tereza Shkurtaj, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Instead of flying the drone remotely with individual controls, the F-22 pilot sent high-level tactical instructions that the drone’s onboard autonomy software interpreted and executed.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026
  • There's no one character who came up with the idea and executed it … the existence of AI today comes down to many papers, many individual discoveries, and a whole lot of obsession.
    — Cooper Katz McKim, NPR, 16 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The 23-year-old midfielder put away a straight-away free kick from 30 yards out to open the scoring in first-half stoppage time.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 17 Oct. 2026
  • Turgeman put away passes from Peyton Miller in the 21st and 51st minutes, the 22-year-old's first multi-goal game in MLS.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The district’s current representative, Angel Velez, was knocked off the ballot.
    — Claire Malon, Chicago Tribune, 8 Oct. 2026
  • One of those is a 7-3 win over Columbine, which just knocked off ThunderRidge.
    — Nate Peterson, Denver Post, 7 Oct. 2026

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“Bumped off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bumped%20off. Accessed 23 Oct. 2026.

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