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  • past participle of pump.
  • past tense form of pump.

pumped



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Resting the arm on the lap overestimated systolic BP, the top number of a reading, or the force of blood flow when pumped out of the heart, by 3.9 mmHg.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026

RTX said it has pumped about $900 million into the Tucson plant and two other factories over the past three years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

At the project in Esbjerg in the south west of Denmark, carbon captured from around the country arrives in huge zeppelin-like tanks before being pumped into a ship called Carbon Destroyer 1.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

“He pumped gas and he played golf,” recalled Cathy Boland Polito, Walter’s date for the senior prom who is now a retired medical technologist living in Oro Valley, Ariz.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

The men were divided into two watches: Shackleton, Crean, and McNeish steered, bailed, and pumped for four hours, while Worsley, Vincent, and McCarthy slept—or tried to.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong




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