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Some aspiring buyers are digging into retirement funds or seeking out government programs to help them get over the down-payment hump.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

For most people, Wednesday will be just another day - the midweek hump at school or work.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

He’ll be a critical part of the Chargers’ offense and a major factor in determining whether the franchise can get over the playoff hump.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026

Braun told me that managed security service providers offer a two-way benefit: it helps his project get over the scalability hump by pooling resources, while the small utilities benefit from a shared information environment.

From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2026

Butler had been forced to make three trips to the Jeep in order to hump the equipment across a stile, a bog, and two fields.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

Going into the second book, it was about trying to get over life’s humps.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2024

These include building a bridge, improving signs, and putting in road humps and a chicane to slow down traffic.

From BBC ● Feb. 3, 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

Projects typically include speed humps, narrower lanes, signs and landscaped barriers.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 17, 2022

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 ferry docked and we humped our bags into the little town.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs

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