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[duhmp] / dʌmp /




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Wearing thick gloves, environmental enforcement officer Hanley continues to dig through the dump.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

Nobody is asking you to dump your technology stocks.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026

The researchers compare it to approximately 40 million dump trucks' worth of matter, or about 1.3 trillion one-pound burritos every second.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026

While the steps helped stem the rupee's losses, the currency has faced fresh challenges as foreign investors continue to dump Indian equities and crude hovers around $100 a barrel.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

You could prove it by calling the dump to ask if anything was missing.

From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott

Horan says people often employ a "man with a van" to dispose of their waste, but frequently the person hired just dumps it.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

While China’s technological advances—from artificial intelligence to space—have dazzled the world, much of its economy is in the dumps.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

People living in informal settlements built on mine waste dumps are falling ill and more "houses will crack and fall into sinkholes", he said.

From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026

Cole is a former cop who feels guilty about his father’s death, a backstory as lackluster as the exposition dumps that blurt it out.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

She takes the can out and dumps it in the trash.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti

As investors have dumped once-hot semiconductor stocks and other artificial-intelligence-linked names, shares of companies that pay relatively high dividends have taken off.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026

It dumped 5.62 inches of rain on L.A. over three days, spawned wind gusts of up to 65 mph and resulted in 45 deaths from flooding, with an additional 48 deaths at sea.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026

The video also showed the firm's laboratory at Park Works to be in poor condition, with rubbish strewn across the floor, its ceiling exposed and bin bags dumped outside.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Even though both rose in the following three years, many dumped bonds in favor of better-performing stocks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Connor dumped out his basket of hummingbear puzzlers, then bounded ahead.

From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate

Back near Grimsby, I ask the North East Lincolnshire team what their message is to fly-tippers or people considering dumping their waste.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

He pulled out his phone and recorded himself dumping fat streams of quarters into collection buckets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

Read: Investors are dumping AI stocks as ‘tech wreck’ worsens.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026

That storm made landfall in the same Florida region as Isaias, but remained at tropical storm strength as it moved northward, dumping record amounts of rainfall into the mountains and leading to deadly flooding.

From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026

The structure for lifting, sorting, and dumping the coal was called the tipple.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam


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