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He’ll be a critical part of the Chargers’ offense and a major factor in determining whether the franchise can get over the playoff hump.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026

Braun told me that managed security service providers offer a two-way benefit: it helps his project get over the scalability hump by pooling resources, while the small utilities benefit from a shared information environment.

From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2026

"Once you start to get over that hump and you get a win, you get another win, it sort of breeds confidence from there," he said.

From BBC ● May 12, 2026

INDIANAPOLIS—For 37 years, Michigan basketball just couldn’t get over the hump.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 7, 2026

Sean, Seamus and Stephen lent their pillows to plump up the bump, hump and rump of the beast.

From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord

The eyes dart back and forth across the desert landscape, detecting rocks, dips and humps, variations in sand color flashing into view like a real-life scene from “Mad Max.”

From Washington Times ● Dec. 14, 2023

He points to one line in English script, where an impatient character complains that "camels will sprout wings on their humps" if they have to wait any longer.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2023

It could well be humps, plural, now for Buffalo.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 23, 2023

To qualify for speed humps, a segment must have a speed limit no higher than 30 mph.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2022

She is by far the most attractive member of the family, yet she spends most of her time and money disguising herself beneath prosthetic humps and appliquéd skin diseases.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

She “scrabbled, thrutched, clawed, and humped her way up the volume, then threw out right to a bowling-ball sloper, cut her feet, pendulumed out beneath it, and matched it,” writes Mr. Tallent.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026

It was in a humped position while walking and seemed unable to move, indicating severe abdominal pain, officers said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2023

Yet for their size, they are graceful swimmers, easing through the water with arched dives of their humped back that give them their name, and lifting their flukes as they dive.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 10, 2023

For four months, state and federal officials have sanctioned a hunt of the shaggy, humped animals that delight millions of tourists and are a centerpiece of Native American culture and history.

From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2023

He was sitting humped over, with his hands jammed deep in the pockets of his patched and worn mackinaw.

From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls

Training a dog to stop humping may be difficult, as it is often a compulsive behavior.

From Slate ● Aug. 15, 2019

Give Logan Paul a camera and put him in an elevator and he will probably start humping the handrail, or pressing every single button, or something even more stupid.

From Slate ● Apr. 9, 2018

“Every person I know is humping it, and he or she gained that ethic from growing up in the inner city,” he writes persuasively.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 6, 2015

Mr. Hetherington broke his leg on a mission and had to walk four hours down a mountain on it, humping his gear, to get back to camp.

From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2011

Across the school grounds and in the woods and in backyards and in every corner of the county, pumpjacks continue their slow rhythm, humping at the earth.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez