rumpus
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Another rumpus at this World Cup concerns the installation of hydration breaks at the midway point of each half.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026
The unexpected rumpus took place on Feb. 23 at the Thornton Beach Recreation Area when the young boy was taking a riding lesson on a horse from Ocean View Stables.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2025
The court heard that she told police: "Kate told me he tried to get up the night before, and she tried to stop him. Ian had said 'leave me alone or I'll cause a rumpus'."
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2024
As the characters in a Coen Brothers movie might say: What’s the rumpus?
From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2023
And then she looked into the very last place there was to look— which was the rumpus room.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
But then again, the NFL seems to specialize in off-field rumpuses.
From Time ● Jul. 28, 2015
Before he dies, Rivera may well add sculpture to his talents and triumphs, just as he may well get himself into more political rumpuses.
From Time Magazine Archive
Middle-class flight, a shriveled tax base and the usual urban rumpuses encourage St. Louis authorities to hire S. Jammu, a woman related to Indira Gandhi, to run its police department.
From Time Magazine Archive
She intercepts a love letter, stirs up a series of rumpuses, and Mine Wesendonck agrees to flee with the musician.
From Time Magazine Archive
Now I understand your amazement and I will presume to enlighten you that all those quarrels, rumpuses, intrigues, envies, and even fights are nothing but nerves, nerves, nerves!
From The Comedienne by Edmund Obecny
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