dump

Example Sentences

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Lisa Baranik, who researches chronic pain, says she used to dump her knowledge on people, once even scaring off a yoga instructor by giving unsolicited advice on back pain.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

The document dump contains hundreds of internal emails between officials, as well as hundreds of messages between the peer and government ministers across 56 separate WhatsApp conversations.

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026

Once the spears are gone, most of us dump the cloudy green brine straight down the sink without thinking twice about it.

From Salon • May 28, 2026

Crews could not “get anything into the compromised tank because, the theory is, the product was starting to solidify and it gummed up the dump valves,” McGovern said.

From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2026

I need to dump it in the trash behind the building, but I don’t want to run into anyone who might ask about Mom.

From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko