dumpiness

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for dumpiness
Noun
  • Losing sight of this has meant that faculty haven’t been using all of the tools at their disposal to fight the disintegration of tenure-stream employment.
    Time, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
  • For director and co-writer Justin Tipping, the key to expressing Cameron’s mental and physical disintegration was finding a visual language that combined two very different worlds.
    Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 22 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Its decay produces flashes of light in the detector that can mimic potential dark matter signals.
    Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 2 Oct. 2025
  • These radioisotopes spontaneously transform into different elements and release radiation – energetic particles or light – in a process called radioactive decay.
    Andrea Richard, The Conversation, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Mahama’s installations, which say something about societal deterioration, also dramatize the country’s inability to sustain robust funding in the arts or technology in its postindependence years.
    Edna Bonhomme, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Indeed, September’s deterioration doesn’t signal the first time the indicator has entered recession territory—it’s been there since February 2025—but marks a further step away from a healthy outlook over a prolonged period of time.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2025
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“Dumpiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dumpiness. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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