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lumping together



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Others complain that marketers used the abbreviation as a catchall over the past two years, incorrectly lumping together different types of digital art to take advantage of the bull market.

From New York Times • Oct. 31, 2022

It's lumping together data from the British crowds and the Brazilian trials, even though they were kind of designed differently and shouldn't have been done that way.

From Salon • Dec. 21, 2020

Instead, the agency has caused confusion by lumping together antibody tests along with tests for active COVID-19 infections.

From Nature • May 21, 2020

My colleague Kaitlyn Tiffany pointed out that lumping together scripts and novels might be a mistake — the former might have less exposition surrounding the events, and they don’t necessarily follow the same dramatic structures.

From The Verge • Jul. 6, 2016

It was a lumping together of all five known human senses—and half a dozen unknown ones called, collectively, "intuition"—into one super-sense that was all-inclusive and all-informative.

From Masters of Space by Berry, Robert Lee




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