sump
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Friends, my family included, have been scrounging for fans, dehumidifiers, and sump pumps to lend to friends affected by the flood.
From Slate ● Aug. 9, 2024
Ford has offered a 9% wage increase through 2027 and 6% lump sump payments.
From Reuters ● Sep. 11, 2023
Starting in 1974, Chevron subsidiary Union Oil Company of California had operated a sump pit for oil and gas production, a process that left the carcinogenic chemical benzene on the property, court papers said.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 9, 2023
To remove excess water from the basement, consider purchasing a sump pump or wet vacuum.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 20, 2023
It was cold and dead, and a foul sump of oily many-coloured ooze lay at its bottom.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
Many of these older systems, especially the sumps, weren't designed to handle the corrosive mix of gasoline and ethanol sold in the United States.
From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2023
In very short order, much of this clean and lovely place, and a shoreline whose wetlands had cleaned and revived the natural system for millennia, were turned into sodden chemical sumps.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2021
Though Kirk Cousins recovered his own fumble, this picture pretty much sumps up the Redskins season:
From Washington Post ● Dec. 8, 2015
In other cases, environmental testing has disclosed the presence of oil spreading in groundwater from old spills and sumps, rendering property close to worthless.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 6, 2015
From the preliminary borings it was thought that the sumps were located so that the entire construction would be in rock.
From Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The East River Tunnels. Paper No. 1159 by Brace, James H.
