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bump

verb as in move over, dislodge

verb as in increment

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Any humiliations Crowe might have suffered as an uncertain teen were for his mother merely speed bumps on the journey to self-actualization, ideally as a lawyer.

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Pressure and injury and bumps on the way, but these are exhilarating times.

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The one seasoning you probably don’t need to bump up is salt, since the product contains somewhere between 25% and 30% of the recommended daily value of sodium in each serving.

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As Ostfeld walked off the stage at Tuesday’s conference, he bumped into another activist investor: Scott Ferguson, managing partner at Sachem Head Capital Management.

Economists will debate whether this constitutes general inflation or merely a one-time bump in the price level.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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