as in shuffled
to move heavily or clumsily
a child clumping around the house in her father's oversized boots
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Recent Examples of clumped
The tree branches are pretty clumped together, versus having lots of individual limbs to bend.
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Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 20 Oct. 2025
Grant’s eyelashes were noticeably accentuated and clumped together on the top and bottom using mascara only.
—Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 6 Oct. 2025
Bees and wasps flitted together on yellow flowers, and as the day wore on, gnats clumped in beams of sunshine to make a kind of haze.
—Blair Braverman, Outside, 6 Oct. 2025
Matter clumped and clustered together under the relentless pull of gravity, and structures grew and grew on progressively larger scales.
—Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 3 Oct. 2025
Time for some more electrolytes, but it’s clumped in the tube!
—R29 Team, Refinery29, 19 Sep. 2025
The NewCows the drones brought us were odd animals, and even odder once clumped together in a herd.
—Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 20 Oct. 2025
Grant’s eyelashes were noticeably accentuated and clumped together on the top and bottom using mascara only.
—Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 6 Oct. 2025
Bees and wasps flitted together on yellow flowers, and as the day wore on, gnats clumped in beams of sunshine to make a kind of haze.
—Blair Braverman, Outside, 6 Oct. 2025
Matter clumped and clustered together under the relentless pull of gravity, and structures grew and grew on progressively larger scales.
—Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 3 Oct. 2025
Time for some more electrolytes, but it’s clumped in the tube!
—R29 Team, Refinery29, 19 Sep. 2025
The NewCows the drones brought us were odd animals, and even odder once clumped together in a herd.
—Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for clumped
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In September, Spotify added the ability to free users search for and play specific songs, rather than being forced to head directly to shuffled playlists or albums, though users were limited to one song at a time before the app started to shuffle.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
8 Nov. 2025
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The Royals shuffled their hitting department after the 2025 season concluded.—
Jaylon Thompson,
Kansas City Star,
7 Nov. 2025
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As the latter stomped down the catwalk, Anok gave Gabbriette a makeshift haircut.—
Radhika Seth,
Vogue,
27 Oct. 2025
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At Stella McCartney, a pair of slouchy patent leather square-toe boots stomped down the catwalk.—
Kelsey Stewart,
Footwear News,
24 Oct. 2025
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The Avs stumbled out of the starting blocks the past two seasons.—
Corey Masisak,
Denver Post,
8 Nov. 2025
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Three years ago, two Sudanese men stumbled into a police station in the desert town of Tazirbu.—
Mick Krever,
CNN Money,
6 Nov. 2025
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“Clumped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clumped. Accessed 12 Nov. 2025.
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