Example Sentences

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In recent months, though, a harsher economic reality has set in: Rising student-loan payments, stagnant wage growth and rising health-insurance costs have bumped burritos down younger consumers’ priority lists.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 3, 2025

Analysts have bumped up their third-quarter earnings target for the bank by 37 cents a share from June 30, when the consensus earnings-per-share estimate was $4.48.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 13, 2025

In the administration’s official story, the two men may have bumped into each other once or twice in public, but nothing more than that.

From Salon • Sep. 12, 2025

The trio have bumped into a couple they know at the cafe, who move over to the table next to them and join in their conversation.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2025

I wouldn’t have bumped into Diego and gotten to know him, and we wouldn’t have fallen for each other.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson