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as in to leave
to end a usually intimate relationship with
all of her friends were surprised at how she just dumped him
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as in to unload
to get rid of as useless or unwanted
dump the trash on the curb and go back inside
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as in landfill
a place where discarded materials (as trash) are dumped
all of the used packaging eventually ends up in the dump
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as in warehouse
a place where military arms are stored
a daring raid on the ammunition dump
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as in mess
a dirty or messy place
his place is always a dump, so he almost never has people over
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Recent Examples of dump
Julia Shapero, The Hill, 4 Nov. 2024
The bag can be easily emptied by unzipping it and dumping out the debris.
—Sandi Schwartz, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Nov. 2024
Bob Shaw, Twin Cities, 6 June 2017
The latter came after Sandburg setter Connor Kelly put the Eagles on top with a dump and a block on consecutive plays.
—Logan Malloy, Daily Southtown, 30 May 2017
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Verb
The billionaire has dumped about $118 million into America PAC, his pro-Trump super PAC that has played a key role in the Trump campaign’s get-out-the-vote efforts in swing states.
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The chemicals apparently had leached into the water from waste dumps, where the company disposed of the chemicals, ending in the 1970s.
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The schedule proposed by the defense would have left little or no room to potentially hold a sentencing before Trump's term begins.Democrat-Gazette staff from wire reports, arkansasonline.com, 23 Nov. 2024
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That has left mid-sized TV operators in India looking to find new ways of expanding their scale.Patrick Frater, Variety, 23 Nov. 2024
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The deal offered EchoStar a way to unload a good chunk of its liabilities while also exiting a shrinking business.Aldo Svaldi, The Denver Post, 15 Nov. 2024
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Or one person working at a small company can be wearing multiple hats — doing the books and pitching in to unload trucks — triggering some gaps about retirement benefits when the person with all that knowledge leaves the company.Susan Tompor, USA TODAY, 3 Nov. 2024
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Food is often cut off from oxygen when it's piled up in a landfill.London Gibson, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Nov. 2024
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The composting program reduces waste that would otherwise end up in landfills.Shafaq Patel, Axios, 1 Nov. 2024
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When Goldberg entered Luna Luna’s new home—a 50,000-square-foot Los Angeles warehouse—for the first time in January 2022, one attraction caught his eye immediately: a carousel by Keith Haring.Ian Malone, Vogue, 22 Nov. 2024
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Photo-Illustration: WIRED Staff; Photograph:Robin L Marshall/Getty Images Inside a nondescript brick warehouse on Preston Street in Houston, a crowd gathered with their hopes cast on the future.Jason Parham, WIRED, 21 Nov. 2024
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Thanksgiving Day will bring a mess of rain for the I-95 corridor from Florida to Maine, and heavy snow for the interior Northeast and New England.Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 28 Nov. 2024
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Those drips and drops will dry out to become an ooey, gooey, stuck-on mess that is much harder to clean.Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 27 Nov. 2024
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The prevailing belief is that Earhart, 39, and Noonan, 44, ran out of fuel and ditched their twin-engine Lockheed Electra in the Pacific near Howland Island while on one of the final legs of their epic journey.CBS News, CBS News, 26 Nov. 2024
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Our hero also ditches the red dye in his hair, a small but helpful cosmetic change as the new baddie of the bunk beds has purple hair.Tony Maglio, IndieWire, 26 Nov. 2024
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Ibarra was also seen discarding a bloodied jacket and disposable gloves near his apartment on Feb. 22 at 9:44 a.m., prosecutors said.Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 20 Nov. 2024
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Ready to eat tomatoes contaminated with raw meat juices discarded.Gege Reed, The Courier-Journal, 20 Nov. 2024
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Surrender, then, will come not when the opponent’s numbers are diminished and its armory empty but when the survivors’ shield of silicon is rendered incapable of saving its technological assets—and finally its human deputies.Henry A. Kissinger, Foreign Affairs, 18 Nov. 2024
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Fortunately, Joe and the band of gray guys were successful in crossing the border into Mexico without their armory being detected, taking out a cartel patrol, and quickly tac-ing up.Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 27 Oct. 2024
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“Dump.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dump. Accessed 2 Dec. 2024.
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