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jumped

  • past participle
    of jump.
    jump
    verb (used without object)
    to spring clear of the ground or other support by a sudden muscular effort; leap.
  • past tense form
    of jump.
    jump
    verb (used without object)
    to spring clear of the ground or other support by a sudden muscular effort; leap.

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When I was done in Studio City, I drove across town to meet with construction worker and pastor Juan Galicia, whose house was torched in March when fire jumped from an adjacent abandoned property.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026

While vaccination rates in Ohio have fallen, Cleveland is making improvements — rates for children entering kindergarten there have jumped from 68 percent a few years ago to 76 percent this past school year.

From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026

The show jumped from the BBC to ITV in 2017.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

First, yields jumped across maturities in a knee-jerk response to the news that core consumer prices had climbed 0.3% last month—more than what economists had predicted.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

Then he just hauled off and jumped clean over the hole and looked at me from another angle.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls