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as in to interrogate
to put a series of questions to
prying neighbors pumped the guileless child for information about the family's new pool
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as in to drain
to remove (liquid) gradually or completely
pumped water from the well
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Recent Examples of pump
Gas would be pumped into it at times of surplus, not when supplies are tight.
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Thomas Elias, The Mercury News, 1 Nov. 2024
The Democratic National Committee pumped millions of dollars into casting them as spoilers at best and deceptive vessels of Republican subterfuge efforts at worst.
—Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 1 Nov. 2024
Are you pumped for a new season of The Traitors‘ backstabbing drama?
—Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 31 Oct. 2024
As the presidential election nears, campaigns associated with both Trump and his Democratic rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, have pumped billions into political advertising.
—Nina Turner, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024
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Thomas Elias, The Mercury News, 1 Nov. 2024
The Democratic National Committee pumped millions of dollars into casting them as spoilers at best and deceptive vessels of Republican subterfuge efforts at worst.
—Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 1 Nov. 2024
Are you pumped for a new season of The Traitors‘ backstabbing drama?
—Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 31 Oct. 2024
As the presidential election nears, campaigns associated with both Trump and his Democratic rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, have pumped billions into political advertising.
—Nina Turner, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024
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More than 1 million people visit the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden each year to see the hippos bob in and out of clear water, hear gibbons howl above the treetops, smell the elephants covered in dirt.Bebe Hodges, The Enquirer, 27 Oct. 2024
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The flood submerged their street, transforming trees into islands and leaving cars bobbing in several feet of water.Mackenzie Happe and Zoë Todd, CNN, 26 Oct. 2024
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Available on The Week Bookshop A Thread of Violence Mark O'Connell, 2023 Another book that interrogates the act of writing about crime.The Week UK, theweek, 1 Nov. 2024
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Her winning work, titled Behula and a Thousand Tales (2024), uses photography, prints, text, and sculpture to interrogate the role of women in Bangladesh and beyond.George Nelson, ARTnews.com, 31 Oct. 2024
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In October, the company revealed plans to raise as much as $35 billion to refill its quickly draining treasury, a tricky dance considering that new debt would threaten its barely-there investment-grade credit rating.Melvin Backman, Quartz, 5 Nov. 2024
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But harassment campaigns and lawsuits that drain companies of time, money, resources and trust are much easier and can be just as punitive.Sara Fischer, Axios, 5 Nov. 2024
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Over the next few years, a plague of disorder will descend upon America, and maybe the world, shaking everything loose.David Brooks, The Mercury News, 9 Nov. 2024
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Maybe that’s why World Cups end with the two teams shaking hands, one offering congratulations and the other condolences, and elections don’t.Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
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While the review was initiated to examine the leadership structure of the county’s Office of Education, the agency’s investigators quickly pivoted to the education board after hearing numerous complaints from staff, said Mike Fine, CEO of the Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team.Molly Gibbs, The Mercury News, 16 Nov. 2024
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All students are required to take fine arts and humanities courses as part of their undergraduate core curriculum, with the goal of promoting critical thinking and helping students examine problems through multiple lenses.Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 14 Nov. 2024
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Your limbs, or even your entire upper body, may jerk or thrash in the process.Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 13 Nov. 2024
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Yanking a zipper shut is more likely to break teeth or jerk the slider off the track.Joe Jackson, Outside Online, 17 Oct. 2024
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Paxton was born into the church and comes across as more explicitly pious and less inherently questioning of her worldview.Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
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That experience led her to be hired by the Republican chairperson of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee to question Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh during Kavanaugh's U.S. Supreme Court nomination hearing in 2018.Jimmy Jenkins, The Arizona Republic, 5 Nov. 2024
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“Pump.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pump. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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