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 My last book was about a beach town, so I got lumped in with the beach read group. — Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2026 As former chair of the California Commission on Asian and Pacific Islander American Affairs, Villavicencio helped pass legislation to disaggregate public health data for diverse AAPI groups that were otherwise lumped into a few major categories. — Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 29 Sep. 2026 Barca’s debt figure is often exaggerated in some circles, with the club’s total liabilities lumped together in a manner not seen elsewhere. — Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026 Alcohol, nicotine and caffeine are psychoactive chemicals that can cause varying degrees of problems, but they were never lumped together with heroin. — Jonathan Caulkins, The Conversation, 9 Sep. 2026 The collective term lumped these women together, robbing them of individuality, and reducing them to merely decorative fixtures of Premier-league broadcasts while erasing their individual accomplishments. — Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2026 All players from all eras not currently in the Hall of Fame will all be lumped into one category for nomination. — Armando Salguero Outkick, FOXNews.com, 4 Sep. 2026 The user journey Oestlien didn’t want YouTube’s service to be lumped in with existing cable and satellite bundles. — Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 1 Sep. 2026 Cyber stocks late last year and into 2026 were being lumped into the awful enterprise software trade. — Paulina Likos, CNBC, 27 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lumped
  1. assembled
  2. shuffled
  3. collected
  4. stomped
  5. gathered
  6. stumbled
  7. grouped
  8. corralled
Verb
  • In one of those roles, the chair assembled a formal transition committee that met with me throughout my first six months.
    — Anna Maria Chavez, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2026
  • Kim assembled a nine-person team, including an animation art director and a music director.
    — Ophélie Surcouf, Variety, 11 Oct. 2026
Definition of assembled
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  • In the midst of the rush to finish my syllabi and opening week assignments, as my husband shuffled the kids into their sneakers and Crocs and the car for one last back-to-school outing, everything stopped.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Oct. 2026
  • There was the sound of the occasional slipper scraping across the carpet as players and coaches shuffled from the showers.
    — Brendan Kuty, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2026
Definition of shuffled
Verb
  • In a new study published in Science on Thursday, researchers collected stool samples from more than 170 people before and after a second or third dose of a COVID vaccine.
    — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 9 Oct. 2026
  • For larger donations, which usually arrive on pallets, brands pay per pound, after Fabscrap has collected and weighed the donations.
    — Bella Webb, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of collected
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  • As a result, the Great Lawn had to be shut down two months ealier for repairs and resodding after tens of thousands of concertgoers stomped it into a muddy mess.
    — Lincoln Anderson, New York Daily News, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Letter writers recalled how Paden saved his father’s life when a cow nearly stomped him to death in a field, after the elder Paden came between the cow and her calf.
    — Glenn Rice, Kansas City Star, 21 Sep. 2026
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  • Most of the furniture comes from the owner’s personal collection, gathered over the course of a lifetime from visits to flea markets all over Europe.
    — Julia Wytrazek, TheWeek, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Dabrowski’s favorite moment came outside the livestream of the Telfar event from New York, where young Parisians gathered in a spirit of community, dressing with individuality rather than for the cameras.
    — Alex Badia, Footwear News, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of gathered
Verb
  • Kore-eda stumbled on the manga in a bookshop rather than through its serial run.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Jessica Koslow stumbled upon them at another shop, Virgil Normal, resulting in a collaboration with her restaurant Sqirl.
    — Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of stumbled
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  • The earlier four-count indictment grouped the devices found outside the Republican National Committee and Democratic National Committee headquarters together under each charge.
    — Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 2 Oct. 2026
  • The concerts are grouped into two-night couplings with the group playing unique set lists each night.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of grouped
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  • But experts working with Gentle Giants warned that strategy might not work because of Outlaw's history of being corralled in the wild.
    — CBS Baltimore, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Working with Urban Pioneering Architecture, Haughton corralled an all-Caribbean team of craftsmen and builders to renovate the four-story town house.
    — Camille Okhio, Architectural Digest, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of corralled

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“Lumped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lumped. Accessed 14 Oct. 2026.

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