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  • plural of bump.
  • present tense form of bump (3rd person singular).

bumps



VERB
move over, dislodge
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STRONG
VERB
increment
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In fact, the pay bumps to move within the industry have been growing larger as the year progresses, she said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

You may have waited until you turned 70 for those extra 8% annual bumps beyond FRA, or you may not.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

Now Nasa is working around that problem using the X-59's elongated snout to flatten supersonic booms into tolerable bumps in the background.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

“I don’t feel the bumps now,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

Goose bumps went up and down Akira’s arms.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz



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