rump
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"We get really nice fruit and veg in, biscuits - last week we had some really nice rump steak which went down a storm."
From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2026
He had just separated the new Muslim state of Pakistan from the now-independent rump of largely Hindu India.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
Water and other specialties stay behind in the rump DuPont.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 9, 2025
But when the show’s first Hamlet, ambulated by an Oxford-trained actor named Dipo Ola, performs a few lines, he’s instantly more compelling than the sight of ParTeb shaking his rump.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2025
Every few steps she would poke Rowdy in his rump with the broom and he seemed to be liking it.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
All the other elephants in his herd run to him at the first sign of trouble; during calmer times, they willingly present him with their rumps in a seeming sign of submission.
From Salon ● May 27, 2024
Some wore pillow-size stuffed animal turtles around their rumps to protect their tailbones in a fall.
From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2019
Females were more likely to bite the rumps of males at the most fertile phase of their reproductive cycle, researchers found.
From The Guardian ● May 9, 2018
If you watch their weight over their rumps, that's where they usually lose it if they can't handle what you're giving them.
From Seattle Times ● May 19, 2012
Some of them had spotted calves who ran behind them, their bony rumps flashing white and disappearing into the trees.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
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