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This month, though, the 20-year-old will receive an associate degree in early childhood education, a credential that will bump her from hourly to salaried employee, at higher pay, at the preschool where she works.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 2026

Any security mitigation, however, will bump up against the fact that those entitlements are what make agents so useful in the first place.

From Barron's • Jan. 22, 2026

Temperatures are expected to drop over the weekend, as an increase in air flowing in from the Pacific Ocean will bump up the marine layer clouds and the influence of the sea breeze, Schoenfeld said.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2024

If new homes aren’t wired for increasing power needs from electric appliances and car chargers, it will bump the effort and cost of making such upgrades onto homeowners — a deterrent to going electric.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 14, 2024

The box’s atoms are wiggling around, and they will bump the banana’s atoms and set them in motion again.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife