dumped

past tense of dump

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of dumped Separately, police said another woman was found dead on Sunday in Soweto, south of Johannesburg, her body wrapped in a duvet and dumped near a dam. — CBS News, 21 Sep. 2026 Eventually, the firms dumped the valuable slag into waste piles and wrote off the metals inside. — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 15 Sep. 2026 Cameras stolen and recovered Earlier this year, three of Auburn’s Flock cameras were stolen after someone disabled the devices and dumped them in a canal, according to previous Bee reporting. — Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 15 Sep. 2026 On the night before everything came to an end, a cold front dumped about an inch-and-a-half of rain on New York City. — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 11 Sep. 2026 But she was abruptly dumped toward the end of the season, anyway, with three episodes still left to film. — Michael Callahan, HollywoodReporter, 11 Sep. 2026 The import option in Google Password Manager will plug in to the new migration system, while export still just creates an unencrypted CSV with your passwords that can be dumped into any app. — Ryan Whitwam, ArsTechnica, 10 Sep. 2026 Andreeva swung hard and somehow dumped the ball into the net. — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026 Mom grabbed the rag on the table and wiped the clean corner, dumped the rag in the sink, then turned to Crazy. — Literary Hub, 9 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dumped
Verb
  • Meanwhile, Pitt ditched his signature whimsical style for a classic black suit moment.
    — Lara Walsh, InStyle, 24 Sep. 2026
  • The Boston Globe’s story about what happened when a lesbian bar in western Massachusetts ditched its mask mandate is worth the price of a subscription.
    — Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • In 2016, Bottura and his wife, Lara Gilmore, founded Food for Soul, a cultural project that empowers communities, and salvages and repurposes food that would otherwise be discarded.
    — Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Its two outer booster engines were discarded during flight, while the central sustainer continued operating and later helped the converted Atlas launch John Glenn into orbit.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 19 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Kahn’s heirs unloaded the place in 1939, a few years after his death, and it was chopped up over the years to serve as retirement housing for city workers, a military training compound, and a boarding school, per Forbes.
    — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 25 Sep. 2026
  • No one exhaled until the cargo was unloaded, unswaddled, and confirmed to be in one piece.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • In June, The Times of London reported that private schools throughout the UK have lost 30,000 pupils since January 2025, and about 100 independent schools have closed entirely.
    — Ashley Baker, Vanity Fair, 22 Sep. 2026
  • According to a July 23 report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), NASA lost a fifth of its civil servant workforce in the past year, with impacts to more than two dozen major projects.
    — Eric Niiler, Scientific American, 22 Sep. 2026

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“Dumped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dumped. Accessed 27 Sep. 2026.

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