lumped

past tense of lump

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of lumped As former chair of the California Commission on Asian and Pacific Islander American Affairs, Villavicencio helped pass legislation to disaggregate public health data for diverse AAPI groups that were otherwise lumped into a few major categories. — Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 29 Sep. 2026 Barca’s debt figure is often exaggerated in some circles, with the club’s total liabilities lumped together in a manner not seen elsewhere. — Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026 Alcohol, nicotine and caffeine are psychoactive chemicals that can cause varying degrees of problems, but they were never lumped together with heroin. — Jonathan Caulkins, The Conversation, 9 Sep. 2026 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lumped
Verb
  • On a budget of just $15 million, Yamazaki assembled a visual effects team of just 35 artists to create 610 effects shots.
    — Antonio Ferme, Variety, 27 Sep. 2026
  • The machine’s roughly 80-ton tower was delivered in two sections and assembled on site.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 25 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The dispute has caused confusion for over a million potential voters who could be shuffled among districts.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 22 Sep. 2026
  • Senate Leadership Fund, the main GOP Senate super PAC, also shuffled some of its reservations, removing $900,000 in broadcast buys in the state while adding $400,000 in digital ads.
    — Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 21 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Kristin, a cool, calm, and collected crisis negotiator from the purple tribe, negotiates with Kilby, a game designer from Canada on the yellow tribe.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Moving through the world with a little more intention and feeling a little more collected.
    — Mike Ryan, IndieWire, 24 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Letter writers recalled how Paden saved his father’s life when a cow nearly stomped him to death in a field, after the elder Paden came between the cow and her calf.
    — Glenn Rice, Kansas City Star, 21 Sep. 2026
  • The Bulldogs visit Arkansas, which just got stomped by Utah, to open SEC play Saturday.
    — Tyler Estep, AJC.com, 14 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The students of the Aburi Girls Boarding School in central Ghana have gathered to perform for a recruiter from the Miss Ghana pageant.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2026
  • On the other side of Via Solari, a handful of policemen gathered around dozens of demonstrators, who ardently—but peacefully—chanted for entirely different reasons.
    — José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 28 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • But like their European counterparts, American incumbents in the automobile and space industries have also stumbled.
    — Andrew McAfee, Foreign Affairs, 23 Sep. 2026
  • For Wilmot, the worst moment occurred when Sleepy stumbled to the edge of a huge chasm in the mine, turned and began to fall backward to his death.
    — Sandee LaMotte, CNN Money, 22 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • For the occasion Rossi, who launched his brand after years of studying shoemaking under his footwear-guru father Sergio, has retraced the trajectory of his creative process and grouped his designs in a photographic tome published by Rizzoli.
    — Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Kardaris grouped ibogaine with other psychedelic or psychoactive substances that have drawn public interest.
    — Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 22 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • It will be corralled into a separate drainage system that will take it across the street to a facility owned by Manatee County Government, where it is treated and disposed of down a deep injection well.
    — Ryan Ballogg, Miami Herald, 28 Sep. 2026
  • Los Angeles police corralled and arrested scores of minibike riders on Sunday, thwarting a takeover of 6th Street Bridge.
    — Kevinisha Walker, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2026

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“Lumped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lumped. Accessed 1 Oct. 2026.

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