tumping (over)

present participle of tump (over), chiefly Southern

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Verb
  • La Gritona is proudly additive-free and always prioritizes sustainability, turning over its agave remnants to local farmers for cattle feed.
    Carley Rojas Ávila, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The anecdote came up as part of a larger conversation Barrymore was having with her audience that day about turning over a new page after turning 50 earlier this year.
    Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • As a result, career ladders are toppling into no man’s land, leaving too many professionals unsure of how to gain traction to find a job and advance in the workplace.
    Ulrik Juul Christensen, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • According to Alixandra, who didn't share her surname, Sparrow masterminded her own midnight feast by toppling the feeder and prying off the lid.
    Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The oil and gas outsiders at Venture Global are doing so by upending project design norms, upsetting the Big Oil hierarchy, and dominating the nascent gas export industry.
    Jordan Blum, Fortune, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Newsom has been under pressure in recent years to adopt AI guardrails by advocates worried about the technology’s impact on unemployment by automating jobs and upending creative and media industries via its ability to generate new pictures, audio and other media using existing data.
    Lia Russell, Sacbee.com, 25 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In June, the Supreme Court allowed DOGE to access SSA records, overturning lower-court decisions that imposed some limits on data access.
    Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Adams’ tactics rendered the gag rule toothless and useless, prompting even six southern Congressmen to vote in favor of overturning it.
    Time, Time, 24 Sep. 2025
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“Tumping (over).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tumping%20%28over%29. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.

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