as in claps
a loud explosive sound
the crate of oranges landed on the floor with a whump a whump in the kitchen startled the dog
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Noun
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Oscar-winning composer Daniel Blumberg was tasked with layering in claps, stomps and screams.—
Patrick Ryan,
USA Today,
24 Jan. 2026 -
Listeners replied with claps and exclamations of eager agreement.—
Madeline King,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Jan. 2026
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At Dior Men, some models sported lemon-yellow tresses fashioned with bangs.—
Jennifer Weil,
Footwear News,
27 Jan. 2026
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At the 55th Annual GRAMMY Awards, her pixie cut entered bob territory, long and flipped with bangs to match.—
Essence,
Essence,
26 Jan. 2026
Noun
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That’s why housing policies we’re pitched are filled with dreams of construction booms or giant income boosts.—
Jonathan Lansner,
Oc Register,
23 Jan. 2026
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As social media booms, so does the consumer industry.—
Alexandra York,
Forbes.com,
23 Jan. 2026
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Most of them were in the South, where weekend blasts of freezing rain caused tree limbs and power lines to snap, inflicting crippling outages on northern Mississippi and parts of Tennessee.—
Russ Bynum,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Jan. 2026
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Most of the outages were in the South, where weekend blasts of freezing rain caused tree limbs and power lines to snap, inflicting crippling outages on northern Mississippi and parts of Tennessee.—
Elissa Jorgensen,
Dallas Morning News,
27 Jan. 2026
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Isaac Gonzales, founder of Slow Down Sacramento, said the locations of where these crashes happened were not surprising.—
James Taylor,
CBS News,
13 Jan. 2026
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In the national parks, drowning ranks behind only motor-vehicle crashes as the leading cause of accidental death.—
Paige Williams,
New Yorker,
12 Jan. 2026
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Reappropriating the Air Jordan 6 colorway, the latest Air Jordan model gets a predominantly black look with pops of its namesake shade of red.—
Ian Servantes,
Footwear News,
27 Jan. 2026
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Its home will be the Ten Hotel Gurnee, where Arden envisions regular performances of a variety of orchestra music, from pops to classical, played with dinner accompaniment.—
Joseph States,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Jan. 2026
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“Whumps.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/whumps. Accessed 30 Jan. 2026.
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