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Pearl Jam protested the practices of Columbia House, and the bum deal it gave artists, but made little headway as the club boomed to 16 million members in the 1990s.

From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2026

When he substitutes a pitcher or a hitter and it works out, Dave is a hero, and when it doesn’t work out, Dave is a bum.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 4, 2026

If he’s still standing at the end, even if Creed has busted his head open, “I’m gonna know for the first time in my life that I weren’t just another bum from the neighborhood.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

If Leeds lose this, then it is squeaky bum time for them with games to come against Tottenham and West Ham, but they won't mess up.

From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2026

A heavy feeling like you get when you eat more calories than you can bum off efficiently came down inside of me.

From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd

While that data was more reliable, the $60 upcharge for the upper arm band is a bummer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026

She detects a generalized funk poisoning our existence and asks, not unreasonably, “What is with this bummer veil cast over everything fun or exciting?”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

Certainly not from the game itself; basketball moves fast, and a bummer can become a bust in a blink.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026

It’s a bit of a bummer that ad blocking only works with Lightway.

From Salon ● Mar. 13, 2026

Not to be a total bummer, but that was our last visit.

From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell

Say," he cried, "Snake's Fall is just the bummest location this side of the Sahara on a Sunday.

From The Son of his Father by Ridgwell Cullum

Back then, Folger says, the rural western outpost was filled with "back-to-the-land hippies, college students, cowboys and ski bums".

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026

I tried to get into the gym and, I don’t know, something about the gym environment really bums me out.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2025

Wells said he was angry with Gill because he felt he had been "using people around him, like me I guess, to put bums on seats".

From BBC ● Nov. 20, 2025

The Pad was lambasted in the print-shop windows where caricaturists laid into all the ludicrous fashions: bums, breasts, bellies, skirts, hats, and hair.

From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2025

And me and Rondell laying on the dirt like bums, no money and no place to go and our stomachs full on the last food we’d be able to pay for.

From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña

“I’m both envious,” she said, “and a bit bummed out.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

“In the office, we actually get really bummed when we realize we’re having a conversation and we forgot to turn on Granola,” she says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

Yet with these new songs out in the world, the three musicians don’t seem particularly bummed not to have their old ones in ready circulation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026

Bowen Yang is in a huge number of commercials these days, and every time I see him, I get a little more bummed out.

From Slate ● Feb. 8, 2026

Behind them the bees bummed in the leaves.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

We had this life that was mainly just bumming around on your bike and drinking coffee.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2023

Her family life was volatile, though, and she left home at 15 or so, bumming around the Bay Area.

From New York Times ● May 17, 2023

“We grew up bumming on the lake and not taking showers and no TV and no internet,” Sweeney said.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 17, 2021

The NFL has squeezed its overtime period from 15 minutes to 10, bumming out some.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 28, 2021

I thought maybe I might stop in a phone booth and give old Jane Gallagher a buzz before I started bumming my way west, but I wasn't in the mood.

From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger