rump
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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
Serbia and Montenegro were all that was left in the rump Yugoslavia - along with Kosovo, a breakaway region of Serbia with an ethnic Albanian majority population.
From BBC ● Dec. 9, 2023
And I hoped a swarm of pixies would bite his bony stubborn rump!
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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
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
The same dividers that separated the horses swung behind their rumps, boxing them in.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 22, 2011
It is valued for its tenderness, flavor and its high-fat, marbled texture, the result of years of breeding as well as practices like massaging the rumps of the cattle.
From New York Times ● Jun. 11, 2010
Instead I slapped the oxen on their rumps as if I hadn’t any worries about who was standing in the middle of the road.
From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
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