bum

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But sometimes you can’t, like when you ask a chatbot a factual question and get a bum steer.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026

"I wouldn't have been worried if I had one bum cheek dragging on the floor. I didn't care at that point, I just wanted to go home," she said.

From BBC • Feb. 23, 2026

His father, who he describes as a ski bum, won custody and brought him back to Norway, where he took up ski racing at the age of eight.

From Barron's • Feb. 14, 2026

And when Valerie and Linda, who put a ring on it as soon as gay marriage was legalized in California in 2008, visited Los Angeles, the couple would bum on Hoza’s Silver Lake couch.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 11, 2025

Saying these words makes my blood bum, but I force myself to go on.

From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau