rump
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Of the rump of 55 seats Fidesz will occupy in the new Parliament, currently only 12 are from individual constituencies, and the rest are from the party lists.
From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2026
He had just separated the new Muslim state of Pakistan from the now-independent rump of largely Hindu India.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
Water and other specialties stay behind in the rump DuPont.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 9, 2025
But when the show’s first Hamlet, ambulated by an Oxford-trained actor named Dipo Ola, performs a few lines, he’s instantly more compelling than the sight of ParTeb shaking his rump.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2025
Let Ser Cleos wear out his bony Frey rump riding to and fro with offers and counters.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
All the other elephants in his herd run to him at the first sign of trouble; during calmer times, they willingly present him with their rumps in a seeming sign of submission.
From Salon ● May 27, 2024
Females were more likely to bite the rumps of males at the most fertile phase of their reproductive cycle, researchers found.
From The Guardian ● May 9, 2018
They also used collars to track location and activity levels, and inserted temperature recorders into the rumps of some bears.
From New York Times ● Jul. 16, 2015
If you watch their weight over their rumps, that's where they usually lose it if they can't handle what you're giving them.
From Seattle Times ● May 19, 2012
Instead I slapped the oxen on their rumps as if I hadn’t any worries about who was standing in the middle of the road.
From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
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