as in shuffled
to move heavily or clumsily
a child clumping around the house in her father's oversized boots
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Recent Examples of clumped
Venus, Mercury, and Saturn will be clumped together just above the west horizon, the publication said, before setting an hour after sunset.
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Joshua Bessex, Sacbee.com, 31 Jan. 2026
Individually Quick Frozen, vegetables are flash-frozen in single layers rather than clumped together.
—Amber Love Bond, Southern Living, 29 Jan. 2026
Scientists can study this map to see how dark matter has clumped up over billions of years.
—CBS News, 26 Jan. 2026
The tree branches are pretty clumped together, versus having lots of individual limbs to bend.
—Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 20 Oct. 2025
Grant’s eyelashes were noticeably accentuated and clumped together on the top and bottom using mascara only.
—Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 6 Oct. 2025
Bees and wasps flitted together on yellow flowers, and as the day wore on, gnats clumped in beams of sunshine to make a kind of haze.
—Blair Braverman, Outside, 6 Oct. 2025
Matter clumped and clustered together under the relentless pull of gravity, and structures grew and grew on progressively larger scales.
—Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 3 Oct. 2025
Time for some more electrolytes, but it’s clumped in the tube!
—R29 Team, Refinery29, 19 Sep. 2025
Joshua Bessex, Sacbee.com, 31 Jan. 2026
Individually Quick Frozen, vegetables are flash-frozen in single layers rather than clumped together.
—Amber Love Bond, Southern Living, 29 Jan. 2026
Scientists can study this map to see how dark matter has clumped up over billions of years.
—CBS News, 26 Jan. 2026
The tree branches are pretty clumped together, versus having lots of individual limbs to bend.
—Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 20 Oct. 2025
Grant’s eyelashes were noticeably accentuated and clumped together on the top and bottom using mascara only.
—Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 6 Oct. 2025
Bees and wasps flitted together on yellow flowers, and as the day wore on, gnats clumped in beams of sunshine to make a kind of haze.
—Blair Braverman, Outside, 6 Oct. 2025
Matter clumped and clustered together under the relentless pull of gravity, and structures grew and grew on progressively larger scales.
—Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 3 Oct. 2025
Time for some more electrolytes, but it’s clumped in the tube!
—R29 Team, Refinery29, 19 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for clumped
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That means there aren’t going to be just a few chairs shuffled around; my suspicion is much of the roster likely will be overhauled in the next few years.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
13 Feb. 2026
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On Thursday afternoon, about 300 people in a mix of puffer coats and fleeces shuffled in place on a line that snaked south along Seventh Avenue to West 10th Street, wrapped around Julius’ and circled back — an Ouroborous.—
Adriane Quinlan,
Curbed,
12 Feb. 2026
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The first trailer for this macho survival flick just stomped onto the internet last week with a gung-ho spirit and guns blazing.—
Jeff Spry,
Space.com,
9 Feb. 2026
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The Seattle Seahawks stomped a mud hole in the New England Patriots.—
Prince J. Grimes,
USA Today,
9 Feb. 2026
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Shares stumbled last week on news about job openings in December hitting their lowest level in five years as investors tried to assess the health of the economy and figure out whether to cash in on pricey stocks.—
John Towfighi,
CNN Money,
11 Feb. 2026
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Both the Bobcats and Blue Devils have stumbled, and Yale is in a dogfight in the Ivy League.—
Kels Dayton,
Hartford Courant,
11 Feb. 2026
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“Clumped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clumped. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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