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butted

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past tense of butt

as in bumped

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The surfer who made the report was not bumped, bitten or otherwise hurt by the shark, Peters said.

— Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026
Jay just gets bumped from one squishy chamber of viscous lumps to another, fighting like hell to avoid following his squid adversary through a puckering hole and deeper into the digestive system, where the air turns into methane.

— David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of bumped

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At the hospital, a nurse said Blair kicked her in the chest, according to the document.

— Meriam Bouarrouj, NBC news, 16 Oct. 2026
The officer was tied to a military trailer, beaten with a shovel and rifle butt, kicked and subjected to other abuse, including injuries to his genitals, according to prosecutors.

— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 15 Oct. 2026

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The banquet hall was total chaos, packed with people who shoved their way toward the front, trying to bribe the hostess for a table with red envelopes.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2026
Although some Alabama fans reacted to the loss and officiating by throwing water bottles on the field, one spectator came down from his seat and got in the face of and shoved Georgia linebacker Raylen Wilson.

— Connor Riley, AJC.com, 15 Oct. 2026

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Instead, his team developed SynthID, an imperceptible, incorruptible digital watermark now stamped to anything generated by Google AI, but also OpenAI, Nvidia, Kakao, and, soon, Apple.

— Daniel Varghese, Time, 15 Oct. 2026
The rest of the Soviet delegation stamped their feet, and even Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko removed and timidly tapped his shoe in solidarity.

— Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 5 Oct. 2026

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Workers have been increasingly jabbed while on the job as needle-style medications — more specifically GLP-1s — have risen in popularity.

— Amethyst Martinez, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2026
Liberty star Sabrina Ionescu jabbed back against the prevailing narrative yesterday, saying she was never invited to participate in the WNBA’s 3-point contest this weekend.

— Chris Branch, New York Times, 24 July 2026

Definition of jabbed

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Builders, prodded to work beyond city limits, adopted Olmsted’s vision for what those suburbs should look like.

— Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026
Trump publicly prodded the Health secretary for an update on autism research in a Cabinet meeting last month.

— Ali Swenson, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2026

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