lumped

past tense of lump

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of lumped 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 Plus, the numbers weren’t business by business, but different areas lumped together. Shawn Tully, Fortune, 23 July 2026 Bulletin boards, dry-erase calendars, oversized picture frames, and mirrors are typically lumped in with art. Jennifer Prince, Southern Living, 14 July 2026 Cramer said the stocks have been unfairly lumped together despite having vastly different businesses and AI strategies. Alexa Lomonaco, CNBC, 9 July 2026 If anecdotal evidence is anything to go by, the tens of millions of viewers tuning into Fox every day for the soccer spectacle can be lumped into a single body, inasmuch as everybody—as in, like, everybody—seems to dislike Lalas … or at least the version of himself that he’s ginned up for TV. Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 24 June 2026 We’re often lumped under the umbrella of the Asian American and Pacific Islander community. Ryan MacAsero, Mercury News, 12 June 2026 The Crisis Alternative Response Evanston, or CARE, team responds to calls that, before July 2024, would have been lumped into police calls. Megan De Mar, CBS News, 9 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lumped
Verb
  • Shuttle missions deployed and serviced satellites, launched the Hubble Space Telescope, assembled much of the International Space Station, and flew 135 missions over three decades.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 9 Aug. 2026
  • That mind is a model, an enormous statistical object assembled by feeding it a quantity of text and images nobody has ever fully itemized.
    Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The Playoff remains parked at 12 teams, and some G6 conferences shuffled teams, now including North Dakota State and Sacramento State.
    Jason Kirk, New York Times, 31 July 2026
  • Black voters were shuffled around Houston, with much of the previous 9th Congressional District becoming the new 18th District.
    Rahul Mukherjee, NPR, 23 July 2026
Verb
  • At least 54 cities across the US have voted to cancel, non-renew, or reject Flock’s automatic license plate reader (ALPRs) since the start of the year, according to data collected by the Washington Examiner.
    Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Mai is propagating more than 170 varieties collected from refugees around the world, helping preserve these precious grains while studying which are best suited to our changing climate.
    Laura Mclively, Mercury News, 6 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • That was broken up by Owens, who stomped Gunther and then caught him with a big clothesline.
    Blake Oestriecher, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
  • Ten members of a Pennsylvania high school football team, including several coaches, face charges after a player was allegedly stomped with cleats, and jabbed in the buttocks with a broomstick.
    Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 30 July 2026
Verb
  • Photos capture the high-energy of Outside Lands, where 225,000 festivalgoers—75,000 per day—gathered in Golden Gate Park for a three-day celebration of music, culture, and community.
    Ray Chavez, Mercury News, 11 Aug. 2026
  • The organization created a site for her story with all the information the family had gathered over the years.
    Avni Trivedi, CNN Money, 11 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Some stopped during their lunch break, while others stumbled across the competition by chance.
    ABC News, ABC News, 8 Aug. 2026
  • Advertisement But the test favored Claude by selecting cases where a researcher had already stumbled.
    Harry Booth, Time, 7 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • For Billboard charting purposes, all versions of the same title are grouped together.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
  • There was an unprecedented growth in Banijay’s live event business, which is grouped with Banijay Entertainment, where revenues soar almost 50% thanks to both the Winter Olympic Games and FIFA World Cup.
    Alex Ritman, Variety, 29 July 2026
Verb
  • This sink caddy keeps your sponge, scrub brush, and dish soap corralled in one spot instead of scattered around the sink.
    Alexandra Emanuelli, Southern Living, 28 July 2026
  • Right fielder Jac Caglianone made a leaping catch against the right-field wall in the first inning and Lane Thomas corralled a sinking line drive with a sliding catch in the sixth.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 18 July 2026

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“Lumped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lumped. Accessed 12 Aug. 2026.

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