bumps

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Carranza said filling empty positions will require better salary and training, and perhaps more pay bumps when new hires hit yearly milestones.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

Feeling for bumps and other cranial features, practitioners created a profile of the sitter’s character.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026

Recent data show that traffic bumps after new product launches and marketing campaigns have been short-lived, with no consistent week-to-week improvement, wrote Christopher Carri, an analyst at KeyBanc Capital Markets, in a note.

From Barron's • Apr. 21, 2026

That isn’t to say there haven’t been any bumps along the way.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 21, 2026

It was monstrously tall and covered with endless bumps and bulges from top to bottom.

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el