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Along the breezy streets, you’ll find a tale of two eras: the town’s surf bum past and its glitzy present.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

Adrian thinks maybe she’s half a bum too.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

It's squeaky bum time in the Premier League title race.

From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2026

Advancements that seek to end the friction of reality — the freak occurrences, edge cases and bum luck of a given day — ultimately sap the world of excitement and color.

From Salon ● Apr. 13, 2026

We’ll sit by the lake, which won’t steam like lakes do and won’t move when the wind isn’t on it, or bum sticks.

From "Feed" by M.T. Anderson

Pondering the potential heat death of humanity is a bummer of a way to start the week, I know.

From Slate ● Sep. 14, 2026

And an absolute bummer for me and anyone else who really craved some Saturday night Schadenfreude.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

Presumably a bummer for Wagler, he and Leonard might not be teammates in L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026

Well, Carney’s made a movie about darkness and it’s a total bummer.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026

He hadn’t gotten the information he needed, which was a real bummer.

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray

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

Aspen has been soul-searching for half a century, since hippie ski bums began ceding ground to luxury real-estate developers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

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

A new drug called apitegromab could help people on obesity jabs avoid unwanted muscle decline that's been linked to flat bums or "Ozempic butt", according to research in Nature Medicine journal.

From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026

A poodle, coiffed to make pompoms of its torso and tail, stands on its hind legs: puffed, ruffed and bum-padded, just like the ladies being fitted for bums.

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

One local, wearing a traffic cone hat was overheard saying he was "totally bummed" his kilt didn't arrive in time.

From BBC ● Jun. 23, 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

“Not at all,” Erin says, but when she catches my eyes I can tell she’s a little bummed, and definitely confused, so I shrug to let her know I have no idea what’s going on.

From "Boy21" by Matthew Quick

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

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2023

Summing up his life in the mid-1980s, he wrote, “I was still bumming a ride on my Academy nomination.”

From New York Times ● Jul. 27, 2023

By the time the clock hit zeros, the Steelers were bumming and the Chiefs were celebrating.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 13, 2022

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

From Washington Post ● Oct. 28, 2021

"He was probably bumming his way home. He told me he was president of your class at Yale."

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald