hump
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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
As we looked out over the bay, its turquoise edges giving out to darker blue, Olsi pointed at a hump of land rising out of the water.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
"Once you start to get over that hump and you get a win, you get another win, it sort of breeds confidence from there," he said.
From BBC ● May 12, 2026
Darnold got over the hump by passing for three touchdowns in a 31-27 victory over the Rams in the NFC championship game at Lumen Field in Seattle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2026
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
These include building a bridge, improving signs, and putting in road humps and a chicane to slow down traffic.
From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2024
It’s not as fussy as LVP with respect to humps and bumps on the floor.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 15, 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
She’d been taught in school that they were full of life, but this one was like the deserts she’d imagined as a littlie—featureless humps stretching into the distance, one after another.
From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld
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
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
At first, he was confident that the bear he shot at seven times was a black bear because the animal didn’t have a grizzly’s characteristically humped back, he allegedly told Crane, the game warden.
From Seattle Times ● May 15, 2023
Behind him rode three queerly garbed strangers atop ugly humped creatures that dwarfed any horse.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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
On January 1, Orde-Lees was skiing near the edge of the floe when a twelve-foot-long, fanged leopard seal lunged up out of the water and began humping toward him at astonishing speed.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
