- present participle of dump.
dumping
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But local environmental campaigners say it sidesteps the "elephant in the room" of Turkey's ongoing reliance on coal and obscures the fact it has effectively become "Europe's dumping ground" for plastic waste.
From Barron's ● Nov. 8, 2026
That jump in the VIX potentially triggered a group of funds known as volatility-control funds, which tend to make buying and selling decisions based on the level of turbulence in markets, to start dumping stocks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
This has been one result of investors recently dumping the stocks that have carried the market over the past few years, and shifting into those that had lagged.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026
In an already tenuous industry marked by razor-thin margins, high rents and increasing costs for goods and labor, some of the Southland’s favorite beach bars and restaurants are dumping out buckets of water this month.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
And he hobbled away, yelling something at a deckhand who was dumping slops off the stern of a sloop at anchor.
From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk
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