lumped

past tense of lump

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of lumped 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 The performances of those groups might have resembled one another in some superficial way, but the individual politics of each do matter and shouldn’t be lumped together on account of aesthetics. Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 7 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 And when lumped in with the overall textile stream, global recycling for footwear remains below 1 percent. Jennifer Bringle, Footwear News, 3 June 2026 Which means a licensed clinical social worker with a decade of clinical experience, training in ethics and boundaries, and the ability to recognize a client in crisis gets lumped into the same category as someone who completed a weekend online certification. Megan Bruneau, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lumped
Verb
  • The French Laundry has assembled a remarkable collection of rare and vintage spirits, including Scotch whisky, bourbon, Cognac, Armagnac and Chartreuse.
    Yuri Shima, Forbes.com, 26 July 2026
  • Steady and spectacular and dedicated to his craft on defense, Swanson embodies the group of position players the Cubs have assembled.
    Patrick Mooney, New York Times, 26 July 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
  • Investigators recovered numerous pieces of evidence, including pieces of clothing, fired shell casings, DNA swabs and bullet fragments collected from Cherry’s body, according to the report.
    Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 July 2026
  • Investigators got another chance in 2007 when the remains were removed from a cemetery so a DNA sample could finally be collected.
    Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 30 July 2026
Verb
  • 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
  • Cece got out of bed, put on a pair of fuzzy pink slippers, and stomped to her mother’s office.
    Jessica Contrera, New Yorker, 13 July 2026
Verb
  • On Sunday, several hundred people gathered at a park in Grandview to honor and remember Blair and Wells and to hold Marchbanks in their thoughts.
    Eric Adler July 28, Kansas City Star, 28 July 2026
  • And on a Thursday afternoon blanketed in wildfire smoke, a small crowd gathered to see one in particular.
    Joanna Thompson, Space.com, 27 July 2026
Verb
  • Fresh from lifting the FIFA Club World Cup and buoyed by optimism around Enzo Maresca’s project, the Blues stumbled to a disappointing 10th-place Premier League finish.
    Graham Ruthven, New York Times, 31 July 2026
  • The Curiosity rover stumbled on the polygon field while ascending the foothills of a three-mile-high mountain called Mount Sharp, where it’s been roaming since 2014.
    Frank Landymore, Futurism, 30 July 2026
Verb
  • 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
  • Based on whether these proteins are present, metastatic breast cancer is generally grouped into a few main categories, such as hormone receptor–positive, HER2-positive, or triple-negative.
    Nicole Pajer, PEOPLE, 28 July 2026
Verb
  • 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
  • He was finally cleared to shoot in the 28th minute, but after a hesitation, Mbappé’s shot toward the right corner was corralled by goalkeeper Yassine Bounou, who guessed the direction of the shot correctly.
    Kyle Hightower, Hartford Courant, 9 July 2026

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“Lumped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lumped. Accessed 2 Aug. 2026.

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