lumping

verb

present participle of lump
1
as in collecting
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 shuffling
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 lumping In 2021, the company started announcing growth from Azure and other cloud services, later lumping in some revenue from the GitHub and Nuance Communications acquisitions. — Jordan Novet, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2026 The results will help segment POTS patients into more granular cohorts based on the source of their symptoms, rather than lumping them all together as Simo says the medical industry often does today. — Emily Forlini, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2026 There were some who diminished the novels, lumping them with the frothy stories of such bestselling contemporaries as Danielle Steel or Judith Krantz. — Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 2 June 2026 DeSantis has targeted Democrats for defeat by lumping parts of deep-blue Broward with red pockets in adjoining counties that have nothing in common with cities such as Plantation, Sunrise and Weston. — Steve Bousquet, Sun Sentinel, 2 May 2026 The Mummy is set up with the grace of Boris Karloff lumping around the catacombs. — Gregory Nussen, Deadline, 16 Apr. 2026 Yes, Dallas and Fort Worth are two very different cities located about 30 miles from each other, but for the purpose of this article, the general lumping together of Dallas-Fort Worth as a metroplex works well, as both cities—along with several suburbs—offer numerous benefits for retirees. — Amanda Ogle, Travel + Leisure, 7 Dec. 2025 Using a single term to cover these heavier-than-helium elements makes some sense because the universe is overwhelmingly made up of the lighter stuff, so lumping everything else into one group makes the math easier. — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 13 Nov. 2025 Proposition 50 splits it into three, lumping the mostly conservative voters in with more liberal cities and coastal communities. — Alexei Koseff, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lumping
  1. collecting
  2. shuffling
  3. assembling
  4. stomping
  5. gathering
  6. stumbling
  7. grouping
  8. corralling
Verb
  • Chase said the acquisition marked an expansion of the library’s collecting interests beyond its millions of rare books, manuscripts and historical items spanning from the 11th through the 21st centuries.
    — Anthony Solorzano, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Sunil Pandey Speaking with NBC News in Pokhara, Nabin Karki, a superintendent of police, said authorities were collecting DNA samples and displaying photos of the bodies found in hopes that family members might be able to identify them.
    — Surendra Phuyal, NBC news, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of collecting
Verb
  • The bull riders—including the current champion, 20-year-old John Crimber—stand with their cowboy hat over their heart, boots shuffling nervously in the dirt.
    — Christine Lennon, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Aug. 2026
  • There must have been a hundred of us there, circling the truck, clambering onto its hood, shuffling and shimmying and twerking with abandon.
    — Taran Dugal, New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2026
Definition of shuffling
Verb
  • As that year’s freshman class president, Miles’ father, George, was instrumental in assembling some 600 freshmen to lug into place 300 tons of loose rock left over from the stadium excavation.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 2 Sep. 2026
  • On the provider side, the response is a person opening a portal, reading the denial reason, pulling the record and assembling an appeal by hand.
    — Oleg Nesterov, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of assembling
Verb
  • Their father, Jamie, always seemed to be around, smiling and shouting and stomping his feet.
    — Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Hello Kitty is stomping back to McDonald's in full kaiju form.
    — Chad Murphy, Cincinnati Enquirer, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of stomping
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  • On September 16, C-suite leaders from across Europe and the Middle East will be gathering in London for Fortune CEO Forum to talk about growth and share successes and best practices.
    — Kamal Ahmed, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2026
  • In a California town called Anzar in the late-19th century, Paulette is living with a local magnate’s eccentric son who’s fascinated by the tramps gathering outside his manor.
    — Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of gathering
Verb
  • Unlike other festivals, where audiences can be more forgiving, stumbling out of the gate at Venice can prove impossible for a contender to recover from.
    — Nate Jones, Vulture, 2 Sep. 2026
  • Analysis from Zeki Data shows that where OpenAI and Anthropic are making gains in the AI talent market, Google DeepMind (and to some extent Meta) are stumbling.
    — Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of stumbling
Verb
  • But Shanes questioned whether grouping Jews under a single ethnic category would produce sufficiently specific data for those purposes, or instead obscure differences among Jewish populations with distinct ancestries.
    — Naomi Taxay, Sacbee.com, 28 Aug. 2026
  • This time around, however, the tech giant is establishing parameters on mass arbitration by grouping them in batches of 25, 100, and 500, depending on the total number of claimants with similar issues.
    — Roy Stephen Canivel, Footwear News, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of grouping
Verb
  • Eighty-eight players will receive the Pro Bowl honor with no alternates, corralling a key aspect of the all-star event that had gotten out of whack in recent years.
    — Jonathan Jones, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2026
  • They’ve been seen, for example, corralling schools of rays, creating waves to push penguins from ice blocks and extracting the livers of white sharks.
    — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 23 July 2026
Definition of corralling

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“Lumping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lumping. Accessed 4 Sep. 2026.

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