slumps (over)

present tense third-person singular of slump (over)

Example Sentences

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Verb
  • If the restructuring collapses, those investors can pull their money—a potentially catastrophic blow for a company planning to burn through $115 billion by 2029.
    Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2025
  • East Chicago city cameras appear to show the two men in an argument before Ramirez collapses.
    Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Outside, seagulls squawk; a crane lifts sand and plops it on a boat.
    Hannah Martin, Architectural Digest, 4 Sep. 2025
  • That takes me right out of the alternative world of Alien and plops me down into our own.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • As if that isn’t enough, Isa’s plunks a tamarind-coated straw and a gummy snack on top.
    Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 24 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Several videos begin with Taddese’s friend, who wore a white shirt and gray pants, pushing a persondown as that individual trips him.
    PJ Green, Kansas City Star, 12 Sep. 2025
  • In Bora Bora, trips with Bora Diving Center (by Eleuthera) are another good bet for seeing mantas and schooling eagle rays within the famous lagoon.
    Terry Ward, AFAR Media, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Hinton, a Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist and a former Google executive, has warned in the past that there is a 10% to 20% chance that AI wipes out humans.
    Matt Egan, CNN Money, 13 Aug. 2025
  • That timeline could shrink if a massive fraud wipes out public confidence in the Internet.
    Dr. Diane Hamilton, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Fall foliage appears when leaves change from green to yellow, orange, and red, then falls from the trees, said Brandon Fuller, a doctoral candidate and lecturer in the biology department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC).
    Saleen Martin, USA Today, 14 Sep. 2025
  • If the neighbor is smoking weed on private property doesn’t belong to them or their neighbor, Rosenthal said the responsibility to take action falls on the landlord.
    Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 14 Sep. 2025
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“Slumps (over).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slumps%20%28over%29. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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