bunched

past tense of bunch

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Recent Examples of bunched Skylrk Slouchy Socks bunched above a pair of unreleased Matter Daddy sneakers in the Latte colorway, while Speed Demon sunglasses in Jet supplied the narrow black frames. Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 19 July 2026 Spain, England and Argentina are all a solid amount behind France in the odds, but are tightly bunched among themselves. Dan Santaromita, New York Times, 13 July 2026 The sides are also bunched together in the NWSL table, with Orlando in eighth place and ACFC a point behind in ninth position. Orlando Sentinel Staff, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 July 2026 In the top of the second, the Dodgers bunched four hits, all singles — the first by Hernández, beating out an infield single in his first at-bat since the hamstring injury — to take a 2-0 lead. Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2026 Stewart wore the jacket bunched at the sleeves and layered over a plunging black bra with the same gold hardware at the center of the bust. Chanel Vargas, InStyle, 27 June 2026 Measures such as these help ease the stress of attendees bustling across the city from one appointment to the next, and hopefully help protect the models bunched backstage. Alexandra Hildreth, Vogue, 24 June 2026 The Angels bunched six hits in a six-run second, the rally featuring Jose Siri's RBI double and RBI singles by Logan O'Hoppe, Grissom and Peraza. CBS News, 3 June 2026 The Angels bunched six hits in a six-run second, the rally featuring Jose Siri’s RBI double and RBI singles by Logan O’Hoppe, Grissom and Peraza. ABC News, 3 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bunched
Verb
  • The skinny braids wrapped the bottom of the bun, while the thicker braids dressed the top, forming a cylinder shape that protruded from the crown of her head.
    Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 29 June 2026
  • The problem was that many of them protruded from the front of vehicles like miniature medieval weapons.
    Peter Lyon, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
Verb
  • So many of the crew members made the trek to Altadena that night and huddled off camera to watch Prince perform.
    Lexy Perez, HollywoodReporter, 21 July 2026
  • All around him, young men and women huddled together, warming their cold hands on hot coffee cups.
    Min Jin Lee, New Yorker, 19 July 2026
Verb
  • Before McDaniel’s first NFL game, one Vikings defender aggressively poked his left eye in practice.
    Alec Lewis, New York Times, 24 July 2026
  • It’s now understood that Russia in 2016 poked the election systems in all 50 states to check what protections were in place and accessed—but did not change—some very local registration rosters in Florida and Illinois.
    Philip Elliott, Time, 17 July 2026
Verb
  • If the parking lot begins to get crowded, that will be a sign for the shuttle service to find another location in Portage, Bonta said.
    Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 25 July 2026
  • The market is already crowded with neobanks offering accounts, from Nubank to Stori to Klar.
    Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 24 July 2026
Verb
  • My husband Grant Wahl's bulged and burst, at an age when this disease usually means something inherited.
    Dr. Céline Gounder, CBS News, 13 July 2026
  • That ball found the head of Jude Bellingham, whose diving header bulged the net and opened the scoring.
    Hannah Keyser, CNN Money, 5 July 2026
Verb
  • The Republican advantage this year is much larger — $125 million piled up against Democrats, who have as much debt as money.
    David Weigel, semafor.com, 22 July 2026
  • South Korean retail investors who piled into leveraged bets on the country’s AI champions are nursing steep losses, exposing the risks of the speculative trading boom that helped fuel one of the world’s hottest equity markets.
    Joseph Wilkins, CNBC, 21 July 2026
Verb
  • Conceptual plans showed a series of four-story apartment buildings clustered at one end of the property.
    Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 19 July 2026
  • Hundreds of thousands of people clustered along the Space Coast shoreline, on beaches and in parking lots, to view Saturn V’s ascent.
    Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 14 July 2026

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“Bunched.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bunched. Accessed 28 Jul. 2026.

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