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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
While some neighborhoods were good to deliver to, others weren’t, and when people took the good addresses, the rest of us were lumped with the bad ones.
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Jack Hargreaves, The Dial, 9 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
That’s an underestimate too — Transfermarkt figures such as those used here don’t include the agent fees or transfer levy inevitably lumped on top of each deal.
—James McNicholas, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2025
Only 29% bothered to respond, and NYCHA helpfully lumped the demolition answers together to claim 57% support, triumphantly branding the whole charade as a vote.
—Layla Law-Gisiko, New York Daily News, 16 Aug. 2025
Jack Hargreaves, The Dial, 9 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
That’s an underestimate too — Transfermarkt figures such as those used here don’t include the agent fees or transfer levy inevitably lumped on top of each deal.
—James McNicholas, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2025
Only 29% bothered to respond, and NYCHA helpfully lumped the demolition answers together to claim 57% support, triumphantly branding the whole charade as a vote.
—Layla Law-Gisiko, New York Daily News, 16 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lumped
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The documentary is built around the chat with Sheen — which gives the impression of stretching across many days, based on lighting choices — but Renzi has assembled an impressive assortment of key figures from Sheen’s lives.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Sep. 2025
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The data set was assembled by an independent AI developer named Shawn Presser, who wanted to give the open-source-AI community high-quality training data to compete with the big AI companies.—
The Atlantic,
The Atlantic,
10 Sep. 2025
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Budget cuts are about to bring big changes to San Diego’s 37 neighborhood library branches — including shorter hours, shuffled staff and rescheduled activities.—
David Garrick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
4 Sep. 2025
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Over the past two months, he’s been shuffled through three detention centers despite attempts to pay a bond set by the immigration judge.—
Ashleigh Fields,
The Hill,
22 Aug. 2025
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After testing, the Missouri State Highway Patrol allege the gun matched shell casings collected during their investigation.—
Caroline Zimmerman,
Kansas City Star,
9 Sep. 2025
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Palmer said the federal benefits collected will be returned to the federal government.—
Adrienne Roberts,
Freep.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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That certainly looked to be the case as the Indianapolis Colts stomped the Miami Dolphins 33-8 in the regular-season opener.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
7 Sep. 2025
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Many in Hollywood were dubious as to whether Universal and Amblin could reboot the Jurassic franchise for a third time, and birth a new trilogy more than three decades after Steven Spielberg’s dinos first stomped onto the big screen in 1993’s Jurassic Park.—
Pamela McClintock,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Sep. 2025
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Young adults like all those who gathered to see Kirk on that sunny day.—
Rick Jervis,
USA Today,
14 Sep. 2025
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The Red Sox offense was so quiet that in the bottom of the second, a large flock of birds gathered in a sunlit patch of center field grass at the edge of the warning track and remained there undisturbed for several minutes.—
Gabrielle Starr,
Boston Herald,
13 Sep. 2025
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The Wildcats stumbled early but got hot in October, won 10 games, beat Oklahoma in the Alamo Bowl and were one of the biggest surprises in the country.—
Jon Wilner,
Mercury News,
13 Sep. 2025
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The Patriots stumbled at the start of the Mike Vrabel era last week, dropping a winnable game to the Raiders at home as favorites.—
Andrew Callahan,
Boston Herald,
13 Sep. 2025
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Other extinct branches of the tree of life included Hawaiian honeyeater birds of the family Mohoidae and the Dinornithormes order which grouped giant flightless birds such as New Zealand’s moas.—
Katie Hunt,
CNN Money,
9 Sep. 2025
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Half of the miscellaneous productions also blew their budgets though they aren't grouped under one franchise.—
Caroline Reid,
Forbes.com,
6 Sep. 2025
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Witt corralled the baseball but airmailed an off-target throw to home plate.—
Jaylon Thompson,
Kansas City Star,
24 Aug. 2025
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The mine sits just north of the Duck Valley Reservation on the Sho-Pai’s homelands, an area their ancestors were forcibly removed from over a century ago when Europeans colonized the West and corralled them into the remote reservation with little resources on the Idaho-Nevada border.—
Angela Palermo,
Idaho Statesman,
19 Aug. 2025
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“Lumped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lumped. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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