rump
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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
Finally, he joined Apna Dal, a rump party formed by a lower-caste leader.
From BBC ● May 14, 2023
She sighed and pushed his rump toward the barn.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
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
Some wore pillow-size stuffed animal turtles around their rumps to protect their tailbones in a fall.
From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2019
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
The same dividers that separated the horses swung behind their rumps, boxing them in.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 22, 2011
They faced outward around the ring, their rumps to the center where all the squealing pigs were gathered.
From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson
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