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Carr clearly got a taste for murder as the show progressed, bumping off Paloma Faith in plain sight and handing Lucy Beaumont her death warrant.

From BBC Oct. 30, 2025

So he has switched his party affiliation to independent and is now making a bid to stay on the council, even if it means bumping off a colleague.

From Washington Post Sep. 16, 2022

The Dada imp’s word games and visual pranks were busily bumping off Picasso as the primary influence on the ’60s American avant-garde.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 16, 2018

The killer Crock-Pot, from This Is Us, is not the first time a kitchen appliance has been complicit in bumping off a TV character.

From The Guardian Feb. 19, 2018

They do what is called glancing, which is the same word for bumping off something and carrying on in almost the same direction, e.g., when a snooker ball glances off another snooker ball.

From "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon




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