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pump

[puhmp] / pʌmp /




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A high volume water pump is also being used to draw water from the nearby River Clyde.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

Quintero helps maintain a rusted pump jack for the state oil company, Petróleos de Venezuela, on a patio adjacent to his brick shack.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Prices for diesel at the pump had climbed to a record high of $6.528 a gallon on Sept. 22, according to AAA.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

Center fielder Garrett Mitchell, who went to Orange Lutheran and UCLA, has overcome Type 1 diabetes while needing an insulin pump.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

If I hadn’t been stuck to the pump handle, I would’ve thrown myself down the well rather than bear this humiliation.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

Since July, hundreds of experts and soldiers have been working to unearth layers of remains at the park, aided by bulldozers, excavators and water pumps but often sifting through the mud by hand.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

In the meantime, oil users have been offered discounts on heat pumps, a code of practice is in place, and industry practices setting minimum order volumes at 500 litres for some consumers will be reviewed.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

Playing defense For homes with basements, automated sump pumps are essential.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

On a dry summer day, workers ran for their lives as a deluge of water knocked out pumps and electrical equipment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

The firefighters are like superheroes: they get right at it, spraying water from backpack pumps, scraping brush away from the fire’s edge.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz

With hundreds of millions of dollars being pumped into the ecosystem at once, and ad-makers earning astounding sums of cash for their quick work, you’re going to get a lot of slop.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026

Many of the theaters, cinemas and concert halls that once pumped life into the capital have shuttered or drastically reduced their offerings.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

Resting the arm on the lap overestimated systolic BP, the top number of a reading, or the force of blood flow when pumped out of the heart, by 3.9 mmHg.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026

It is then pumped into a depleted oil field nearly 200 miles off shore.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

They picked two side by side and were quiet as they pumped.

From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn

Istanbul municipal teams and firefighters were carrying out cleanup operations at schools, football pitches, garages and other sites on Thursday, pumping water out of flooded areas and clearing mud, an AFP photographer reported.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

Friends Phoebe Constanta and Ella Birkwood, second-year students at Nottingham Trent University, are among those trying the new night that combines pumping iron with pumping tunes.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

The plaintiffs argue “excessive and unsustainable” pumping by the state Department of Water Resources constitutes a “wasteful and unreasonable use of water.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

In other words, Manchester City's owners circumvented the league's financial regulations over a number of years by pumping money into the club that should not have been recorded as sponsorship income.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

I stopped pumping and got a five-gallon container from the store and filled it.

From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien


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