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Recent Examples of clomp
There’s no need to clomp up and down stairs in ski your ski boots in the three-story stone and timber main house thanks to an elevator, and there’s no need to ever get into a chilly car in the freezing dead of winter thanks to the heated five-car garage.
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Mark David, Robb Report, 2 Dec. 2023
Instead of clomping around in heavy, uncomfortable knee-highs this autumn, why not take on the pumpkin patch in shoes that are just as stylish, but won’t weigh you down?
—Kayla Blanton, Peoplemag, 3 Oct. 2023
Reed clomped down the staircase and out onto the avenue.
—Will Hermes, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2023
Trunks opened and closed around us, Little Leaguers hoisting their bags inside, the sound of cleats clomping across cement, little boys going home.
—Teresa Strasser, Good Housekeeping, 9 Aug. 2023
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Mark David, Robb Report, 2 Dec. 2023
Instead of clomping around in heavy, uncomfortable knee-highs this autumn, why not take on the pumpkin patch in shoes that are just as stylish, but won’t weigh you down?
—Kayla Blanton, Peoplemag, 3 Oct. 2023
Reed clomped down the staircase and out onto the avenue.
—Will Hermes, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2023
Trunks opened and closed around us, Little Leaguers hoisting their bags inside, the sound of cleats clomping across cement, little boys going home.
—Teresa Strasser, Good Housekeeping, 9 Aug. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for clomp
Verb
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Warren’s deep, husky voice frees himself from the blame of an unhealthy relationship over a stomping piano beat.—
Rania Aniftos,
Billboard,
21 Jan. 2025
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Boston stomped the competition last season en route to winning their record 18th NBA championship.—
Daniel R. Depetris,
Newsweek,
1 Feb. 2025
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The Sharks shuffled their lines before the start of the third period.—
Curtis Pashelka,
The Mercury News,
4 Mar. 2025
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At the glitzy afterparty, stars shuffled through a packed room.—
Jay Stahl,
USA TODAY,
3 Mar. 2025
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One nickname — Zombie tranq — reflects shambling from deep sedation.—
Pat Beall,
Orlando Sentinel,
19 Jan. 2025
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Its ambling, shambling tour of crashing parties, crashing on available couches, and reluctantly crashing your way into maturity, one misadventure at a time, is not a bug but a feature here.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
9 May 2024
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But consumers who have real money to spend are lumped into this single category.—
Tim Wragg,
Forbes,
6 Mar. 2025
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Per Pillinger’s legal filing, Jane Doe spent time at a facility for mental health before lumping Hov into the Diddy lawsuit at the order of Buzbee.—
Marc Griffin,
VIBE.com,
6 Mar. 2025
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View 1 Images Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have devised a biomarker test that can spot small amounts of clumping tau protein in the brain and cerebrospinal fluid, which lead to Alzheimer's disease.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
15 Feb. 2025
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A couple of passes allow Fernandes to get forward as Maguire retreats, but his options are limited by the positioning of United’s attackers, who are clumped up together.—
Anantaajith Raghuraman,
The Athletic,
22 Jan. 2025
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Another way in which people’s carbon footprints become especially galumphing is through air travel, notably in first class.—
The Economist,
The Economist,
28 Dec. 2019
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There used to be campus dogs galumphing around the quad, fat on a diet of student pizza and potato chips.—
Beth Thames ,
al,
30 Oct. 2019
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Image Air raid alerts have regularly interrupted lessons for those attending school, sending children tramping through hallways to basements, often for hours.—
Maria Varenikova,
New York Times,
8 Feb. 2025
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Just over four years ago, the same networks covered live as a crowd of Trump supporters tramped through the Rotunda, having attacked police and breached the Capitol in an attempt to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory.—
James Poniewozik,
New York Times,
21 Jan. 2025
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Skype won attention in the 2000s for giving people a way to talk without paying the phone company, but stumbled in the mobile era and didn’t enjoy a major resurgence during the pandemic.—
Jordan Novet,
CNBC,
28 Feb. 2025
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Those concerns came to a head during Biden's debate against now-President Donald Trump in June, when Biden sounded hoarse and appeared to stumble through several answers.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
28 Feb. 2025
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“Clomp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clomp. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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