LUMP IT Synonyms: 61 Similar and Opposite Words

lump (it)

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Definition of lump (it)

as in stand

to put up with (something painful or difficult) Like it or lump it, things are going to change around here.

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Stagger director terms so only a third stand for election each year, which blocks a single-cycle takeover.

— Kyle Westaway, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
Crisis and renewal are strictly a matter of marketing now, a fiction that permanently assigns the Democrats the role of technocrats managing national decline while Republicans get to stand for muscular optimism and economic expansion.

— Ann Manov, Harpers Magazine, 30 June 2026

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The beauty of Mengel’s film is that the horror of the situation is always in the anticipation, mirroring the awful reality of living with mental illness.

— Damon Wise, Deadline, 6 July 2026
Monica Barbaro, his co-star in the film One Night Only, added that every millennial had to go back home after college to live with their parents.

— Meehika Barua, Time, 6 July 2026

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