Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lump (up)
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This pillow also specifically resists clumping due to the double types of fill.—
Christopher Murray
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14 May 2025 -
An eddy, or area of rolling, developed in each of these rings and caused the debris to clump up in a snowball effect.—
Alexander E. Gates,
The Conversation,
5 May 2025
Verb
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Beyond terminating studies, federal officials have gummed up the grant-making process by slow-walking payments, delaying grant review meetings and scaling back new grant awards.—
Benjamin Mueller,
New York Times,
4 May 2025
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Other Republican senators have scrambled to find out whether Trump’s federal hiring moratorium would impact air traffic controllers, which could gum up travel around the country.—
Alexander Bolton,
The Hill,
23 Jan. 2025
Verb
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There’s something striking about how Black Mirror, which primarily fixates on near-futuristic tech conceits as a lens through which to unpack human anxieties, has effectively spanned the length of our collective curdling relationship with technology.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
10 Apr. 2025
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But their chemistry begins to curdle as Violet begins being irritated and then terrorized by a series of anonymous drops to her phone.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes.com,
28 Apr. 2025
Verb
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It is made in the same general way (and also unsweetened), but the final product gets watered down and then thickened with stabilizers and gums.—
The Washington Post,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 May 2025
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But these latest revelations only thicken the mystery: Who was Joan Didion?—
Leigh Haber,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Apr. 2025
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“Lump (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lump%20%28up%29. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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