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

[duhmps] / dʌmps /


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To keep its head above water, China dumps its excess capacity on world markets.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

As the youngest in her family, her siblings and cousins told her about their experience, making friends on the dance floor and the huge photo dumps on Facebook.

From BBC Jul. 18, 2026

Also included are the sites of underground gas storage facilities, refineries, fuel terminals, legacy pollution sites, active industrial sites, landfills, dumps and recycling centers.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 6, 2026

Welcome to this weekend’s edition of the Surge, a politics newsletter that, in light of the hantavirus outbreak, sadly will be canceling all of our future vacations to rat-infested garbage dumps.

From Slate May 9, 2026

Thus, our spittoons and garbage dumps joined our latrines to form the first agricultural research laboratories.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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