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pump-faked

verb

past tense of pump-fake

as in stutter-stepped

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American pressing — the type that previously won the ball against the likes of Paraguay and Bosnia — was easily evaded.

— Paul Tenorio, New York Times, 8 July 2026
Four parents and grandparents face child endangerment charges as officials probe how the family evaded schools, medical records and oversight in a village of fewer than 1,000.

— Julie Carr Smyth, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026

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Ocasio-Cortez notably sidestepped Platner’s candidacy in Maine even as other progressives defended him from the controversy surrounding his infidelity and old social media posts.

— David Sivak, The Washington Examiner, 4 July 2026
The Booksmart actress sidestepped questions about the PDA pictures in a June 2025 interview with Vanity Fair.

— Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 26 June 2026

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Congress has long dodged any Social Security reforms that would cut benefits, hike taxes, or do both.

— Jason Ma, Fortune, 28 June 2026
Newsom's counter proposal calls for a federal minimum tax rate on Americans worth more than $100 million, rather than a state level one-time 5% wealth tax that the governor argues could be dodged by billionaires who could leave the state for another.

— Juhi Doshi, ABC News, 26 June 2026

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