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as in to shuffle
to move heavily or clumsily
the elephant lumbered through the jungle
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as in to stumble
to proceed or act clumsily or ineffectually
the novel's plot lumbers to its predictable conclusion after 500 long pages
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as in to load
to place a weight or burden on
preparations that will lumber the expedition with unnecessary equipment and supplies
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Recent Examples of lumber
Doha Madani, NBC news, 20 May 2025
The resilient home improvement market Home Depot, so far, has not faced big new costs from additional lumber tariffs, thanks to a separate deal with Canada.
—Alina Selyukh, NPR, 20 May 2025
Brendan I. Koerner, WIRED, 13 Jan. 2025
And for decades, every attempt to create legal access has foundered on the rocky shoals of property rights and lumbering bureaucracy.
—Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2025
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Noun
Wendt played a man selling lumber when the mischievous children were trying to rebuild their clubhouse.
—Doha Madani, NBC news, 20 May 2025
The resilient home improvement market Home Depot, so far, has not faced big new costs from additional lumber tariffs, thanks to a separate deal with Canada.
—Alina Selyukh, NPR, 20 May 2025
Verb
When the bodybuilder caught him staring and lumbered over, Colvin got concerned.
—Brendan I. Koerner, WIRED, 13 Jan. 2025
And for decades, every attempt to create legal access has foundered on the rocky shoals of property rights and lumbering bureaucracy.
—Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lumber
Noun
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Defaulted Student Loan Borrowers Are Not Out Of The Woods While the announcement may be welcome news for the nearly half a million federal student loan borrowers who receive Social Security benefits, borrowers are not out of the woods.—
Adam S. Minsky,
Forbes.com,
3 June 2025
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Officials later reopened the highway after the zebra disappeared into the woods.—
Natalie Neysa Alund,
USA Today,
3 June 2025
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The team then trained three seals–Nick, Luca, and Miro–to shuffle into place in front of a large screen and showed them the simulations.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
29 May 2025
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The next generation's most exciting opportunities won't be found in shuffling digital information but in reimagining the physical world.—
Richard Lebovitz,
Forbes.com,
23 May 2025
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On a remote island in northern Norway, metal detectorists stumbled upon a pair of bronze treasures.—
Aspen Pflughoeft,
Miami Herald,
4 June 2025
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While sorting through storage in their Rhode Island studio to prep those reissues, Ivy stumbled upon a treasure trove of reel-to-reel tapes and old hard drives with unused material.—
Nina Corcoran,
Pitchfork,
4 June 2025
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Two weak tornadoes struck the Kansas City area as a line of strong thunderstorms rumbled through the metro on Tuesday, the National Weather Service said.—
Robert A. Cronkleton,
Kansas City Star,
5 June 2025
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Its blast furnaces rumbled so loudly that the sound unnerved visiting high school football teams, recalls Ryan Weld, a West Virginia state senator who grew up in a steel family.—
Patrik Jonsson,
Christian Science Monitor,
3 June 2025
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Anthony Volpe couldn't make the throw to third base, and the Dodgers suddenly had the bases loaded and nobody out.—
Noah Camras,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 May 2025
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With the bases now loaded and no one out, Cole started to rear back.—
Fabian Ardaya,
New York Times,
30 May 2025
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But instead of the feds picking up the full cost of the clean up, as has been the case after major storms that defy any one state’s capacity to get roads back open and mountains of shattered timber out of leveled neighborhoods, the feds’ share is going to notch down to 90% of the cost.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
29 May 2025
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Xcel Energy plans to leave 1800 Larimer, built in 2009, this June for T3 RiNo, a new six-story mass timber building, also in RiNo.—
Aldo Svaldi,
Denver Post,
29 May 2025
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In a world where we’re constantly reminded that physical media is dead — that the future is just algorithms stomping our faces, forever — the fact that the Criterion Closet has gone viral suggests that all is not lost.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
29 May 2025
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No one could agree on whether the brawl of as many as nine young men was limited to fists or if its participants were also kicking and stomping.—
Emerson Clarridge,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
23 May 2025
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Increasingly, experts warn more consumers are experiencing financial fragility, struggling to manage their money and their debt.—
Susan Tompor,
USA Today,
4 June 2025
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Both players have struggled with runners in scoring position this season, but that wasn’t the case Tuesday.—
Jaylon Thompson,
Kansas City Star,
4 June 2025
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“Lumber.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lumber. Accessed 13 Jun. 2025.
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