jump (on)

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Verb
  • After a local teenager was accused of assaulting a white woman, however, white men massacred its citizens, and burned the neighborhood to the ground in one of the most violent episodes in modern American history.
    Meagan Jordan, Rolling Stone, 15 June 2025
  • Thousands have attended those protests, during which roughly 100 people were arrested for blocking streets, resisting arrest and assaulting police officers.
    Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 14 June 2025
Verb
  • In a May 2, 2017 text, Ventura was clear with Khorram that Combs allegedly attacked her.
    Rolling Stone, Rolling Stone, 16 June 2025
  • Even after December 7, 1941, when Japan attacked some of the territories that McKinley had claimed—Hawaii, the Philippines, and Guam—people from Kansas or California didn’t necessarily see any reason to don uniforms.
    Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 16 June 2025
Verb
  • Immigration authorities, wearing bulletproof vests and other tactical gear, recently raided a popular San Diego Italian restaurant.
    Joey Garrison, USA Today, 13 June 2025
  • Court revives suit over wrong-house raid WASHINGTON -- An Atlanta family whose home was wrongly raided by the FBI will get a new day in court, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday.
    Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 13 June 2025
Verb
  • After the period, the TNT crew scolded Luostarinen for not keeping his stick on the ice.
    Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 15 June 2025
  • The estranged wife of actor Scott Wolf was seemingly detained by law enforcement during an Instagram livestream, during which she can be heard scolding officers and alleging she was abused.
    Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 13 June 2025
Verb
  • But, in the end, Berg’s life became proof of a darker truth, one that is newly relevant in the Trump era: doors that swing open can also slam shut.
    Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 9 June 2025
  • President Donald Trump said his close relationship with Elon Musk might be over after the world's richest man and former top White House adviser spent the past few days slamming the president's signature tax and policy bill.
    Joey Garrison, USA Today, 6 June 2025
Verb
  • The victim had just entered the Kings Highway Q train station in Midwood when the stranger, who was walking with a cane, stormed up and started cursing at her about 12:45 p.m. June 12.
    Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 17 June 2025
  • Ukrainian delegates stormed out of the European Youth Event in protest following a speech delivered by Dasha Navalnaya, daughter of the late Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny.
    Isabel van Brugen, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 June 2025
Verb
  • The air force also struck a nuclear weapons development site in the area of Natanz.
    NBC News, NBC news, 20 June 2025
  • Experts and citizens say that the government was most likely throttling internet access to prevent people from sharing information about where Israel had struck and for fear of Israeli cyberattacks.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 20 June 2025
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“Jump (on).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jump%20%28on%29. Accessed 26 Jun. 2025.

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