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as in assembled
to bring together in one body or place
when we lumped all of our pocket change together, we found that we had just enough a buy a carton of ice cream
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as in shuffled
to move heavily or clumsily
while I was on crutches, I was lumping about the house like an elephant
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Recent Examples of lumped
At issue is how such products might be structured and regulated — while prediction markets are considered futures products in the US, they’re often lumped in with gambling in other regions.
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Bloomberg, Mercury News, 30 Sep. 2025
Organize liquidity needs Even your cash needs should be thoughtfully allocated and not all lumped into one savings account or money market fund.
—Michelle Fox, CNBC, 20 Sep. 2025
Anyone who does not think like him is lumped together and counted as an enemy.
—Óscar Martínez & Carlos Martínez, The Dial, 16 Sep. 2025
They were infames lumped in with gladiators and prostitutes at the very bottom of the social ladder.
—Chris Schembra, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2025
In the potentially new 2nd District, politically opposite Marin and Modoc counties would be lumped together for the first time since the Gilded Age.
—David Mark, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
Suddenly, everyone is sniping in the middle of this gorgeous plaza in their polka-dot dresses, and nothing is going forward except for Guerdy and Kiki’s embarrassment that they’re once again lumped in with these relentless squawkers.
—Brian Moylan, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2025
After the Second World War, mothers’ groups and parent-teacher associations led what would come to be known as the Ban Bad Publications movement, which lumped manga together with pornography and other adult content.
—Matt Alt, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
Machine learning often gets lumped in with AI, both as a marketing tool to secure funding as well as by detractors who generalize a number of technologies into a single enemy.
—Larry Bradley, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Bloomberg, Mercury News, 30 Sep. 2025
Organize liquidity needs Even your cash needs should be thoughtfully allocated and not all lumped into one savings account or money market fund.
—Michelle Fox, CNBC, 20 Sep. 2025
Anyone who does not think like him is lumped together and counted as an enemy.
—Óscar Martínez & Carlos Martínez, The Dial, 16 Sep. 2025
They were infames lumped in with gladiators and prostitutes at the very bottom of the social ladder.
—Chris Schembra, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2025
In the potentially new 2nd District, politically opposite Marin and Modoc counties would be lumped together for the first time since the Gilded Age.
—David Mark, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
Suddenly, everyone is sniping in the middle of this gorgeous plaza in their polka-dot dresses, and nothing is going forward except for Guerdy and Kiki’s embarrassment that they’re once again lumped in with these relentless squawkers.
—Brian Moylan, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2025
After the Second World War, mothers’ groups and parent-teacher associations led what would come to be known as the Ban Bad Publications movement, which lumped manga together with pornography and other adult content.
—Matt Alt, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
Machine learning often gets lumped in with AI, both as a marketing tool to secure funding as well as by detractors who generalize a number of technologies into a single enemy.
—Larry Bradley, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lumped
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Reaching the Frontier Over the past year, ByteDance has assembled top AI talent, hiring a former vice president of Google DeepMind to lead AI foundational research and luring other engineers and researchers away from Alibaba and other start-ups, the Financial Times reported in December.—
Andrew R. Chow,
Time,
1 Oct. 2025
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They were delivered fully assembled and dynamically balanced from the company’s production base on the Yangtze River.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
1 Oct. 2025
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And then, after Nakashima sent a first serve back into the middle with good depth, slightly tucking the Spaniard up, Alcaraz shuffled backward and detonated an inside-in forehand to win the match.—
Charlie Eccleshare,
New York Times,
29 Sep. 2025
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But what that led to, advocates and attorneys say, is that children in the state’s care continued to be in night to night placements and shuffled from home to home.—
Laura Bauer,
Kansas City Star,
26 Sep. 2025
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In order to determine if the intriguing minerals were produced by microbial metabolism or an abiotic process, samples collected by the rover would need to be delivered to Earth for further analysis, team members have stressed.—
Andrew Jones,
Space.com,
1 Oct. 2025
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Tagovailoa looked calm and collected in the first half.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
30 Sep. 2025
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By Dom Luszczyszyn, Sean Gentille and Shayna Goldman Coming into last season, the Washington Capitals had taken major steps to improve a roster that, by plenty of measures, had fluked its way into the postseason and summarily gotten stomped in the first round.—
The Athletic NHL,
New York Times,
29 Sep. 2025
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When the band quickly left before the encore, the elated, yet sweaty, audience clapped their hands and stomped their feet without virtually anyone leaving the building.—
Josh Chesler,
AZCentral.com,
28 Sep. 2025
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Days after a gunman drove a truck into a Grand Blanc Township church and opened fire on worshippers, killing four people and wounding eight, hundreds gathered in Flint for a community safety briefing focused on crisis response and prevention in houses of worship.—
Nour Rahal,
Freep.com,
4 Oct. 2025
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On Tuesday night, hundreds of people gathered to remember the teenagers, according to CNN affiliate WABC.—
Zoe Sottile,
CNN Money,
4 Oct. 2025
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Except, of course, for that old dinosaur that somehow stumbled into a misplaced DeLorean, fired up the flux capacitor, and time travelled from the stone ages straight to the Uli beach.—
Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
2 Oct. 2025
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Determined to keep searching, Hollie eventually stumbled on a TLC episode featuring a boy named Gio, who also had Schwartz-Jampel Syndrome.—
Jordan Greene,
PEOPLE,
2 Oct. 2025
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Called the Marriott Bonvoy Outdoors, the stays are grouped by the types of activities travelers seek, whether that’s hiking near alpine lakes, snorkeling among coral reefs teeming with fish, or getting cozy in a cabin in the woods.—
AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
30 Sep. 2025
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The eclectic designs can be displayed on their own, or they can be grouped together to form a funky gallery wall.—
L. Daniela Alvarez,
Better Homes & Gardens,
29 Sep. 2025
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Bishop skied into the air and corralled the pass one-handed for his first career interception.—
Joe Buscaglia,
New York Times,
29 Sep. 2025
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Draped by defenders, the junior wideout corralled a miraculous catch in the red zone, then somehow slipped loose for a go-ahead 45-yard touchdown reception.—
Brendan Connelly,
Boston Herald,
27 Sep. 2025
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“Lumped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lumped. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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