pumped

Example Sentences

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For now, prices are “in a holding pattern, waiting to see if the extra reserves pumped into the market run out before the patience of the warring parties,” he said.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 30, 2026

Over the course of the following two years, Microsoft pumped billions of dollars into OpenAI and the tech stalwart's stake in the startup is now valued about $135 billion.

From Barron's • Apr. 25, 2026

Technicians wearing bunny suits put the machines together in clean rooms pumped with purified air to prevent contamination.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 25, 2026

Over the past decade, the Defense Department, including its cutting-edge research-funding body Darpa, has pumped tens of millions of dollars into the company.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

One of the dolphins suddenly pumped his tail and leaped up out of the water, and a moment later, he came splashing back down, into the waves.

From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown