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“My two-engine plane was out at Burbank, waiting, so that if I got a bum rap, I’d get out there, hop in, and leave America and my screen career forever.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

Pearl Jam protested the practices of Columbia House, and the bum deal it gave artists, but made little headway as the club boomed to 16 million members in the 1990s.

From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2026

Along the breezy streets, you’ll find a tale of two eras: the town’s surf bum past and its glitzy present.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

"And the way he uses his bum to protect the ball... I show my own son that when he's playing football. It's such a bizarre thing to say, but it's such a crucial tool."

From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026

I grab a remote that’s neatly placed on the glass coffee table and throw myself on a couch that squeaks beneath my bum.

From "Hurricane Child" by Kheryn Callender

Pondering the potential heat death of humanity is a bummer of a way to start the week, I know.

From Slate ● Sep. 14, 2026

That’s a bummer for the engineers developing humanoids with miraculous applications, like autonomous disaster-response bots.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

“It’s a bummer because he has made a lot of strides,” Roberts said before the Dodgers’ 7-6 loss to the Cubs on Wednesday, which extended the Dodgers’ season-high losing streak to six games.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

Well, Carney’s made a movie about darkness and it’s a total bummer.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026

“It’s a bummer, all right,” George was saying gloomily to Fred.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling

Say," he cried, "Snake's Fall is just the bummest location this side of the Sahara on a Sunday.

From The Son of his Father by Ridgwell Cullum

Aspen has been soul-searching for half a century, since hippie ski bums began ceding ground to luxury real-estate developers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

A new drug called apitegromab could help people on obesity jabs avoid unwanted muscle decline that's been linked to flat bums or "Ozempic butt", according to research in Nature Medicine journal.

From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026

I tried to get into the gym and, I don’t know, something about the gym environment really bums me out.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2025

But then, the bon ton, not content with padding only bums, moved the bustle round to the tummy at the front.

From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2025

And me and Rondell laying on the dirt like bums, no money and no place to go and our stomachs full on the last food we’d be able to pay for.

From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña

“I’m both envious,” she said, “and a bit bummed out.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

“In the office, we actually get really bummed when we realize we’re having a conversation and we forgot to turn on Granola,” she says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

One local, wearing a traffic cone hat was overheard saying he was "totally bummed" his kilt didn't arrive in time.

From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026

Bowen Yang is in a huge number of commercials these days, and every time I see him, I get a little more bummed out.

From Slate ● Feb. 8, 2026

It bummed Dallas out that Reggie spent less time with him than with this tall brunette, who Dallas thought was just okay, and reasonably pretty.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel

We had this life that was mainly just bumming around on your bike and drinking coffee.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2023

Her family life was volatile, though, and she left home at 15 or so, bumming around the Bay Area.

From New York Times ● May 17, 2023

The NFL has squeezed its overtime period from 15 minutes to 10, bumming out some.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 28, 2021

Nobody, in fact, has ever come to the Washington State Committee on Geographic Names requesting a place-name change simply because the current one was bumming them out, says Caleb Maki, the group’s executive secretary.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 14, 2020

I thought maybe I might stop in a phone booth and give old Jane Gallagher a buzz before I started bumming my way west, but I wasn't in the mood.

From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger