- present participle of dump.
dumping
Example Sentences
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Dumping war costs on the nation’s credit card puts taxpayers on the hook — not only for the conflict’s principal amount but the interest on it.
From MarketWatch • May 28, 2026
Dumping has been stopped at four of the sites, but none of them have yet been cleared up.
From BBC • Jan. 22, 2026
For years, drivers on the valley’s highways have seen their signs and billboards with slogans such as “Stop Dumping Our Farm Water & Jobs In the Ocean.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 3, 2025
I wrote Dumping in Dixie in 1989, but it took me a year to get that book printed.
From Scientific American • Sep. 21, 2023
Dumping the contents onto the bed, I found the fishing lure I hadn’t paid much attention to.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
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