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 And when lumped in with the overall textile stream, global recycling for footwear remains below 1 percent. — Jennifer Bringle, Footwear News, 3 June 2026 And a reshaped district in parts of western Virginia would have lumped together three Democratic-leaning college towns to offset other Republican voters. — David A. Lieb, Chicago Tribune, 8 May 2026 We’re often lumped under the umbrella of the Asian American and Pacific Islander community. — Ryan MacAsero, Mercury News, 12 June 2026 Polis even name-checked the program and Colorado’s best-in-the-nation childhood poverty rate in his final State of the State address — albeit, lumped in with a celebration of cuts to property taxes and income taxes. — Nick Coltrain, Denver Post, 13 May 2026 Which means a licensed clinical social worker with a decade of clinical experience, training in ethics and boundaries, and the ability to recognize a client in crisis gets lumped into the same category as someone who completed a weekend online certification. — Megan Bruneau, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026 Shares climbed almost 12% over the five-day stretch as Wall Street analysts issued bullish calls and the market continued to come around to our idea that cybersecurity names are not threatened by AI adoption and should not be lumped in with general-purpose enterprise software stocks. — Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 23 May 2026 The Crisis Alternative Response Evanston, or CARE, team responds to calls that, before July 2024, would have been lumped into police calls. — Megan De Mar, CBS News, 9 June 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
Verb
  • Dondi assembled a small but mighty team and established swim lanes.
    — Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Money, 6 July 2026
  • Luke Gennaro of the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry said the exhibit was assembled on short notice after volunteers scrambled to secure donations from businesses across the state.
    — Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 4 July 2026
Definition of assembled
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  • Sarah was sent to a mental hospital, and the boys were shuffled among family members, ending up with their penniless grandmother in Kentucky.
    — Hadley Hall Meares, Vanity Fair, 3 July 2026
  • As soon as the game wrapped up, those guests shuffled out, and hours later were replaced by a rowdier group ordering shots at the bar, dancing to 2000s hits in front of the DJ booth and smoking vape pens on the outdoor patio.
    — Katelyn Umholtz, Kansas City Star, 1 July 2026
Definition of shuffled
Verb
  • Fees for the strait would be collected in consultation with the international community and through the International Maritime Organization, the official said.
    — Abigail Williams, NBC news, 3 July 2026
  • Shell has consistently been a close second to Chevron for high prices and fat margins, followed by the other large oil company brands, according to data collected and analyzed by the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration (CDTFA).
    — Jerry McNerney, Mercury News, 2 July 2026
Definition of collected
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  • On Monday night, a 39-year-old man wearing a Spurs jersey was stomped and punched after Game 3 while walking down West 47th Street, about 15 blocks from the arena.
    — Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 14 June 2026
  • It's been 33 years since Jurassic Park first stomped into theaters, and blockbusters haven't been the same since.
    — Huntley Woods, Entertainment Weekly, 11 June 2026
Definition of stomped
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  • The community gathered to celebrate America’s 250th anniversary.
    — Del Mar Times, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 July 2026
  • Mourners gathered in Islamic Revolution Square for Khamenei's funeral procession chant slogans Monday.
    — Marc Smith, NBC news, 6 July 2026
Definition of gathered
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  • The day after the earthquakes, some volunteers stumbled upon a 7-year-old boy named Mateo, shirtless and covered in debris, sitting by himself on a sidewalk in La Guaira.
    — Gisela Salim-Peyer, The Atlantic, 1 July 2026
  • Scientists have stumbled on a rare dinosaur fossil from Antarctica, tucked away for decades in a drawer.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 30 June 2026
Definition of stumbled
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  • In a small number of cases, similar ancestries were grouped together.
    — Albert Sun, New York Times, 2 July 2026
  • The same pattern shows up in founders rarely grouped together.
    — Dileep Rao, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
Definition of grouped
Verb
  • Moments later, another shot on goal was once again corralled by Nyland.
    — Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 June 2026
  • Mesa ran on first movement, but Jensen corralled a 95 mph sinker and made an accurate throw to Royals second baseman Michael Massey covering the bag.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 23 June 2026
Definition of corralled

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“Lumped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lumped. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.

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