bump (up)

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bump (up)
Verb
  • This cocktail tackles skin-barrier damage and its resulting tired-looking skin and helps maximize moisture retention, starting with the moisture from the mask itself.
    Annie Blackman, Allure, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Instead of maximizing patient volume, Vetique prioritizes extended appointment times and a calming environment with luxury touches like sparkling epoxy floors, examination tables with faux fur coverings and exam rooms named after the founders' pets.
    Alain Sherter, CBS News, 9 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • These tariffs directly increase costs for producers, particularly in the construction of drilling rigs and pipelines.
    Steven Dudash, Forbes.com, 1 Apr. 2025
  • The price of buying a foreign car could increase by anywhere between $5,000 to $15,000, Goldman Sachs estimates.
    Mabinty Quarshie, The Washington Examiner, 1 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Soucy respected Miller for trying to pump up his team.
    Peter Baugh, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Gamestop Gamestop has their Switch 2 landing page up as well, if you're still invested in the meme stock and want to pump up the valuation a bit.
    K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 3 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Especially hard-water deposits, residue, and other gunk that can build up over time in your coffee maker.
    Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 13 Apr. 2025
  • The first is simply to vacuum the bed regularly; vacuuming your pet's bed once or twice a week will remove fur and dander, keeping it from building up and creating drifts of hairballs.
    Jolie Kerr, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The rubber match has augmented stakes in a Tournament field with increasing parity.
    Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Attention also could be paid to dismantling foreign anticompetitive market distortions, in order to augment the benefits achieved through the Task Force.
    Alden Abbott, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • The improved coding and long-context capabilities could accelerate software development cycles, enabling developers to tackle more complex problems, analyze legacy code more effectively, or generate code documentation and tests more efficiently.
    Janakiram MSV, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
  • The blaze accelerated quickly because of the Molotov cocktails, Enterline said.
    Christopher Cann, USA Today, 14 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Their latest video of Atlas, their bipedal robot, has blown up online with its mind-blowing human-like movements, including breakdancing.
    Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report, FOXNews.com, 9 Apr. 2025
  • And any doubt that Sampson should be in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame is blown up like the Coogs do to the average ball screen.
    The Athletic College Basketball Staff, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • This time, astronomers have used new processing techniques to draw out additional details in celebration of the telescope's upcoming 35th anniversary.
    Robert Z. Pearlman, Space.com, 18 Apr. 2025
  • These systems use a lot of water, which is lost to the atmosphere when heat is drawn out of the building.
    Erik Kobayashi-Solomon, Forbes.com, 17 Apr. 2025
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“Bump (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bump%20%28up%29. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.

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