hump
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One of the crocodile's most unusual features was a prominent hump located in the middle of its snout.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 13, 2026
INDIANAPOLIS—For 37 years, Michigan basketball just couldn’t get over the hump.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 7, 2026
"I know there are some PRs whose default it is to lean into humour to bridge the scandal and get over the hump."
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2025
The memory of a blown 27-point lead in the 2022 wild-card game likely won’t fully fade until the team gets over the postseason hump under Harbaugh and quarterback Justin Herbert.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2025
He had small yellow eyes and a hump in his neck.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
Going into the second book, it was about trying to get over life’s humps.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2024
Shortly after, city officials expedited the hiring of crossing guards, started a program to add speed humps near 70 schools, and reduced speeds around 250 schools.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2024
The eyes dart back and forth across the desert landscape, detecting rocks, dips and humps, variations in sand color flashing into view like a real-life scene from “Mad Max.”
From Washington Times ● Dec. 14, 2023
The government wants to cut emissions by replacing fossil fuel boilers with electric heat humps and in some cases hydrogen-powered devices, as well as making use of greener heat networks.
From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2023
And the humps moved and swelled till they burst, and the crumbled earth poured out of them, and from each hump there came out an animal.
From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis
She “scrabbled, thrutched, clawed, and humped her way up the volume, then threw out right to a bowling-ball sloper, cut her feet, pendulumed out beneath it, and matched it,” writes Mr. Tallent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
It was in a humped position while walking and seemed unable to move, indicating severe abdominal pain, officers said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2023
Yet for their size, they are graceful swimmers, easing through the water with arched dives of their humped back that give them their name, and lifting their flukes as they dive.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 10, 2023
It has cloned critically endangered, double-humped wild Bactrian camels using the eggs and surrogate mothers of single humped camels, Wani said.
From Reuters ● May 25, 2023
The pom-pom on his stocking cap hung far down his humped shoulder.
From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
Training a dog to stop humping may be difficult, as it is often a compulsive behavior.
From Slate ● Aug. 15, 2019
Give Logan Paul a camera and put him in an elevator and he will probably start humping the handrail, or pressing every single button, or something even more stupid.
From Slate ● Apr. 9, 2018
“Every person I know is humping it, and he or she gained that ethic from growing up in the inner city,” he writes persuasively.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 6, 2015
Mr. Hetherington broke his leg on a mission and had to walk four hours down a mountain on it, humping his gear, to get back to camp.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2011
Across the school grounds and in the woods and in backyards and in every corner of the county, pumpjacks continue their slow rhythm, humping at the earth.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
