rump
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We’ve shipped enormous quantities of rump across the Pacific for ground beef for hamburgers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
"We get really nice fruit and veg in, biscuits - last week we had some really nice rump steak which went down a storm."
From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2026
Water and other specialties stay behind in the rump DuPont.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 9, 2025
But when the show’s first Hamlet, ambulated by an Oxford-trained actor named Dipo Ola, performs a few lines, he’s instantly more compelling than the sight of ParTeb shaking his rump.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2025
And I hoped a swarm of pixies would bite his bony stubborn rump!
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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All the other elephants in his herd run to him at the first sign of trouble; during calmer times, they willingly present him with their rumps in a seeming sign of submission.
From Salon ● May 27, 2024
Females were more likely to bite the rumps of males at the most fertile phase of their reproductive cycle, researchers found.
From The Guardian ● May 9, 2018
If you watch their weight over their rumps, that's where they usually lose it if they can't handle what you're giving them.
From Seattle Times ● May 19, 2012
It is valued for its tenderness, flavor and its high-fat, marbled texture, the result of years of breeding as well as practices like massaging the rumps of the cattle.
From New York Times ● Jun. 11, 2010
Some of them had spotted calves who ran behind them, their bony rumps flashing white and disappearing into the trees.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
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