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pumping

verb as in draw or push out

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verb as in question relentlessly

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Her tiny heart is not pumping enough blood.

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"The noise was so loud my heart was pumping," he told me.

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Patton Exploration’s lawyer, David Gross, acknowledged the neighbors’ frustrations but emphasized the importance of keeping the well pumping.

The wave of drying has prompted many people across the world’s food-growing regions to drill more wells and rely more heavily on pumping groundwater.

Some days, they’d throw in a motivational video on YouTube to get the blood pumping again, before racing off to try to be the first in the office.

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