lumped

past tense of lump

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of lumped The collective term lumped these women together, robbing them of individuality, and reducing them to merely decorative fixtures of Premier-league broadcasts while erasing their individual accomplishments. Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2026 All players from all eras not currently in the Hall of Fame will all be lumped into one category for nomination. Armando Salguero Outkick, FOXNews.com, 4 Sep. 2026 The user journey Oestlien didn’t want YouTube’s service to be lumped in with existing cable and satellite bundles. Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 1 Sep. 2026 Cyber stocks late last year and into 2026 were being lumped into the awful enterprise software trade. Paulina Likos, CNBC, 27 Aug. 2026 They were also lumped in with ska and reggae acts like the Slackers, Agent 99, and 32 Tribes. Literary Hub, 7 Aug. 2026 And so the homicide became a misdemeanor, lumped alongside petty theft and drug possession cases. Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 6 Aug. 2026 Abdul El-Sayed, the front-runner in Michigan’s Democratic primary for Senate, is sometimes lumped together with other rising stars on the left. David Remnick, New Yorker, 31 July 2026 Intellectually and temperamentally, the Frenchmen were a diverse group, forever being lumped together and divided up under various shifting labels—Marxism, psychoanalysis, structuralism, poststructuralism, postmodernism. Emily Eakin, Harpers Magazine, 28 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lumped
Verb
  • The latest contract builds on work that began in 2023, when GE Aerospace received initial funding for concept development and assembled the team that would work on the platform.
    Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 6 Sep. 2026
  • Heading into the 2026 season, Glenn seems more genuine, lighthearted and comfortable — a shift that may reflect his growing confidence in the roster the Jets assembled this offseason.
    Antwan Staley, New York Daily News, 6 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • In the immediate aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, many studios either shuffled their product directly to streaming or waited a mere 17 days for their films to become available to buy or rent at home.
    Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2026
  • For nearly a year and a half, he was shuffled around detention centers in Texas, Arizona, Louisiana and Florida, until arriving in the Alexandria International Airport in mid-August.
    Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 2 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Following Technoblade’s death, more than 400,000 messages from fans were collected in a virtual Minecraft memorial and transformed into 22 books of condolences for his family.
    Todd Spangler, Variety, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Reporters collected waitlist and enrollment data from 47 states and the District of Columbia.
    Moriah Balingit, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The way Brooks stomped, or glided, or moseyed into the end zone will be forgotten.
    Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 22 Aug. 2026
  • San Francisco rolled into SoFi Stadium on Thursday night and stomped the Chargers 41-17.
    Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 21 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Tucker Kraft Day is a real thing, too, and the whole town gathered on Main Street in their Kraft gear while a drone flew overhead.
    Matt Schneidman, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
  • That growth was on display Sunday at Hard Rock Stadium, where generations of HBCU supporters gathered for the latest edition of a game with roots stretching back more than nine decades.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 7 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • In July 1990, four children stumbled upon the body, which was unable to be identified due to the severity of her injuries.
    Lillian Metzmeier, Louisville Courier Journal, 2 Sep. 2026
  • That's what happened when Kerr stumbled upon the three grizzly bears, and the adult female wasn't pleased to see him.
    David Hookstead OutKick, FOXNews.com, 1 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Accommodations and gathering spaces are closely grouped to keep people together, including the long, family-style tables for meals and board games, daily activities, and nightly happy hours hosted by the property.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Aug. 2026
  • Wedbush's Reese noted that Imax is grouped in with the theatrical exhibition space, which is traditionally a slow-growth, dividend-paying business.
    Sarah Whitten, CNBC, 28 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Fix compared it to the Apollo mission, in which NASA corralled 20,000 companies and universities to make millions of parts to build a rocket none of them could have launched individually.
    Nicolás Rivero, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2026
  • The unexpected house guest was safely corralled into an isolated room until the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife arrived.
    Michael Sinkewicz, FOXNews.com, 2 Sep. 2026

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“Lumped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lumped. Accessed 11 Sep. 2026.

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