as in shuffling
to move heavily or clumsily
a child clumping around the house in her father's oversized boots
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as in agglutination
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Verb
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But the $12 billion decline in his fortune has more to do with asset shuffling than stock price movement.—
Julie Goldenberg,
Forbes,
21 Dec. 2024 -
James has been shuffling back and forth between the NBA and the G League.—
Benedict Cosgrove,
Newsweek,
19 Dec. 2024
Noun
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If the patient is already infected with Proteus, then the same agglutination will occur when the Weil-Felix test is administered, and the patient will naturally test positive.—
Rebecca Kreston,
Discover Magazine,
31 May 2016
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Some of these agglutinations have a satisfying outlandishness about them: That smooching pair, for example, are wearing huge masks from the Bamana people of West Africa on their heads.—
JASON FARAGO,
New York Times,
13 Apr. 2017
Verb
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After easily stopping Thanos and Nam-gyu from curb-stomping Ming-gyu at lunch, In-ho earns a lot of people’s respect.—
Jennifer Zhan,
Vulture,
26 Dec. 2024
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In a similar vein, Malloy’s musical score is almost anonymously eclectic — wistful ballads, stomping pop, a smattering of EDM — but threaded through with enough strains of Russian folk and klezmer to suggest a sense of place.—
Houman Barekat,
New York Times,
23 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Players said the gist of the conversation was less about pointing out problems and more about reinforcing cohesion.—
Will Sammon,
New York Times,
29 June 2025
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The 16 tracks that follow ran the gamut from rap to rock, Afrobeats to house, yet maintain surprising cohesion as a full album from start to finish.—
Tim Chan,
Rolling Stone,
27 June 2025
Noun
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There’s a difference between being open and emotionally dumping in the name of bonding.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
27 June 2025
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Once a year at Vanderbilt University, current and former tight ends gather for three days of bonding, collaboration and learning from one another.—
Christie D’Zurilla,
Los Angeles Times,
25 June 2025
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“Clumping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clumping. Accessed 6 Jul. 2025.
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