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Development is a risky business, with a lumpy earnings pattern that makes it unpalatable for many public-market investors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

There are a few lumpy patches, moments when the revision over-explains itself or belabors a point.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026

Prudential Financial, 6.9 times earnings, and Everest Group, 6.3 times, are insurance and reinsurance companies that can have lumpy earnings.

From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 2026

Under the shade of a nearby tree in Kakwanyang village, three women sit together pounding wild brown fruits with a hard, rough and lumpy exterior.

From BBC ● Mar. 19, 2026

Then Babulya’s voice interrupted the terrible images in her head, speaking from the table where she knitted a lumpy scarf: Pray, Annushka.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack

A uniform signal would favor meteoritic fallout, whereas a lumpier distribution, and the presence of minerals that hint at microbe-fueling reactions, could be a sign of life—and a green light to drill a sample.

From Science Magazine ● Jun. 25, 2020

The lines did look lumpier than expected, but I wasn’t prepared for the taste.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 18, 2019

Act 2 gets lumpier, as Nick struggles to concoct a show destined to be “something rotten” — like the state of Hamlet’s Denmark.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 15, 2017

Opposite Billy would sit Mako, big brother in every way - two years older, heavier and lumpier, now England's loose-head prop.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2013

The cushions felt lumpier on the ground than they’d been on the couch, and they kept sliding apart beneath her.

From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder

But inside the square head of this butcher's son is a fantastically retentive brain that gobbles up details of technology and digests the lumpiest government problem.

From Time Magazine Archive

Babulya sat across the table, knitting the lumpiest scarf Anya had ever seen.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack