lump (it)
phrase
as in stand
to put up with (something painful or difficult)
Like it or lump it, things are going to change around here.
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Stagger director terms so only a third stand for election each year, which blocks a single-cycle takeover.
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Crisis and renewal are strictly a matter of marketing now, a fiction that permanently assigns the Democrats the role of technocrats managing national decline while Republicans get to stand for muscular optimism and economic expansion.
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An American family may earn considerably more than a Dutch family, yet live with constant anxiety over medical bills, student debt, childcare costs, or retirement savings.
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According to court records, Occhicone went to the Pasco County home of Raymond and Martha Artzner where his former girlfriend was living with her child on June 10, 1986.
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“Lump (it).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lump%20%28it%29. Accessed 4 Jul. 2026.
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