lumped

verb

past tense of lump
1
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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2
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 They were also lumped in with ska and reggae acts like the Slackers, Agent 99, and 32 Tribes. — Literary Hub, 7 Aug. 2026 And so the homicide became a misdemeanor, lumped alongside petty theft and drug possession cases. — Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 6 Aug. 2026 Abdul El-Sayed, the front-runner in Michigan’s Democratic primary for Senate, is sometimes lumped together with other rising stars on the left. — David Remnick, New Yorker, 31 July 2026 Intellectually and temperamentally, the Frenchmen were a diverse group, forever being lumped together and divided up under various shifting labels—Marxism, psychoanalysis, structuralism, poststructuralism, postmodernism. — Emily Eakin, Harpers Magazine, 28 July 2026 Plus, the numbers weren’t business by business, but different areas lumped together. — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 23 July 2026 Bulletin boards, dry-erase calendars, oversized picture frames, and mirrors are typically lumped in with art. — Jennifer Prince, Southern Living, 14 July 2026 Cramer said the stocks have been unfairly lumped together despite having vastly different businesses and AI strategies. — Alexa Lomonaco, CNBC, 9 July 2026 If anecdotal evidence is anything to go by, the tens of millions of viewers tuning into Fox every day for the soccer spectacle can be lumped into a single body, inasmuch as everybody—as in, like, everybody—seems to dislike Lalas … or at least the version of himself that he’s ginned up for TV. — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 24 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lumped
  1. assembled
  2. shuffled
  3. collected
  4. stomped
  5. gathered
  6. stumbled
  7. grouped
  8. corralled
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  • These immortal beings assembled various groups (including the Green Lantern Corps) in an effort to bring about order and peace.
    — Sergio Pereira, Space.com, 15 Aug. 2026
  • In front of the most Hall of Famers assembled for a game since 2008, Schwarber put on a legendary performance of his own.
    — Dan Hayes, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of assembled
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  • The Playoff remains parked at 12 teams, and some G6 conferences shuffled teams, now including North Dakota State and Sacramento State.
    — Jason Kirk, New York Times, 31 July 2026
  • Black voters were shuffled around Houston, with much of the previous 9th Congressional District becoming the new 18th District.
    — Rahul Mukherjee, NPR, 23 July 2026
Definition of shuffled
Verb
  • Instead of trying to locate bears in the wild, the survey relies on hair samples collected in barbed wire traps, which can be used to identify individual bears based on their DNA.
    — John Moritz, Hartford Courant, 14 Aug. 2026
  • The Steelers outgained Green Bay 385-160 and collected yardage in huge chunks at times on plays that had receivers running wide open against a vanilla defense more focused on fundamentals than elaborate schemes for a game that didn't count.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of collected
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  • That was broken up by Owens, who stomped Gunther and then caught him with a big clothesline.
    — Blake Oestriecher, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
  • Ten members of a Pennsylvania high school football team, including several coaches, face charges after a player was allegedly stomped with cleats, and jabbed in the buttocks with a broomstick.
    — Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 30 July 2026
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  • As the court met Monday on Yabloko’s appeal, the party’s supporters gathered outside the courthouse and Russian media reported that several dozen people were detained.
    — CNN Money, CNN Money, 18 Aug. 2026
  • People gathered at Downtown Park in Hopkins, Minnesota, on Monday night to mourn the deaths of 7-year-old Evie Brown, Kristen Brown and Alice Brown.
    — Ashley Grams, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of gathered
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  • Athletic Club stumbled through most of last season, in part due to star forward Nico Williams never reaching 100 per cent fitness.
    — Dermot Corrigan, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Andropov died in 1984, and Gorbachev took more than a year to gain power while the Kremlin stumbled along under the caretaker regime of the grievously ill Konstantin Chernenko.
    — Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of stumbled
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  • Some tell a coherent story when grouped; others are simply strange on their own terms.
    — Scott White, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Those metrics were then grouped into three categories — Cost & Financing, Education Outcomes and Career Outcomes — to determine each state's overall score.
    — Ahmed Jawadi, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of grouped
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  • The benefit compilation, set for release digitally and on CD and vinyl on October 2 via SoundsGood, has also corralled Jello Biafra, Fred Armisen, Fishbone, and Ozomatli, among others.
    — Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 12 Aug. 2026
  • This sink caddy keeps your sponge, scrub brush, and dish soap corralled in one spot instead of scattered around the sink.
    — Alexandra Emanuelli, Southern Living, 28 July 2026
Definition of corralled

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