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as in to rush
to proceed or move quickly
when I tell you to do something, I expect you to jump
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as in advantage
the more favorable condition or position in a competition
get a jump on the competition by starting early
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Recent Examples of jump
Alex Fitzpatrick, Axios, 14 Jan. 2025
Goldner and his brother jumped into their car and fled just as the blaze spread through their own neighborhood.
—Gavin Feek, Outside Online, 13 Jan. 2025
Tobias Burns, The Hill, 13 Jan. 2025
The yield on a 10-year Treasury bond, or the amount paid to a bondholder annually, stands at about 4.8%, marking about half a percentage-point jump over the past month.
—Max Zahn, ABC News, 13 Jan. 2025
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Plus, Friday trips downtown, which had been sluggish post-pandemic, jumped 14% over 2023 numbers.
—Alex Fitzpatrick, Axios, 14 Jan. 2025
Goldner and his brother jumped into their car and fled just as the blaze spread through their own neighborhood.
—Gavin Feek, Outside Online, 13 Jan. 2025
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The Port of Los Angeles received close to a million 20-foot containers in October, a jump of 25 percent on the year that port officials attributed in part to expected new tariffs.
—Tobias Burns, The Hill, 13 Jan. 2025
The yield on a 10-year Treasury bond, or the amount paid to a bondholder annually, stands at about 4.8%, marking about half a percentage-point jump over the past month.
—Max Zahn, ABC News, 13 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for jump
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Someone ought to think about the brand of football that was played in most of this weekend’s games before leaping to the idea of expanding to an 18-game regular season.Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 6 Jan. 2025
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Meanwhile since then, teams previously considered in the second tier of the Eastern Conference or lower, such as the New York Knicks, Orlando Magic and Cleveland Cavaliers have all leaped over Miami in the pecking order.DJ Siddiqi, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
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Kylie Kelce is cringing over her time spent on a dating app.Gabrielle Rockson, People.com, 13 Jan. 2025
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Read: Everyone should be reading Palestinian poetry The novel, which opens in 2012, has all the beats (and some of the cliché and cringe) of a romantic comedy—one that unfolds partly in the West Bank.Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 13 Jan. 2025
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After scenes of the infected slamming against a barrier and people rushing to grab rifles flash across the scene, the teaser ends with Ellie also walking down a similar hallway with her gun pointed ahead.Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2025
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The same business leaders rushing to adopt AI sales tools might invest in systems to protect their inboxes from similar solicitations.Nathan Pettijohn, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
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Rostam 36 balances its hops’ bitterness with the addition of orange blossoms, whose floral taste frequently appears in Persian entrees and desserts.Benjy Egel, Sacramento Bee, 9 Jan. 2025
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And Sacramento flights take off two days earlier, departing the California capital at 9 a.m. on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays for the five-hour hop to Orlando.Edward Russell, Travel + Leisure, 3 Jan. 2025
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One primary advantage of confidence is that other people do in fact eat it up.Rachel Sugar, Vox, 13 Jan. 2025
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Sensing that this dad was open to being chatted up, Colvin sat next to him and tried to use raw honesty to his advantage.Brendan I. Koerner, WIRED, 13 Jan. 2025
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Nix played every snap in the game, but he was seen wincing in the fourth quarter after throwing a touchdown pass to Courtland Sutton and wore a wrap on the sideline for part of the game.Nick Kosmider, The Athletic, 14 Jan. 2025
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Eilish winced upon its impact, turning her head to show palpable disappointment.Caroline Thayer, Fox News, 16 Dec. 2024
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Pope took a series of pictures with her phone, her hands shaking, and hurried back around the house and into her apartment.Ian Frisch, Curbed, 9 Jan. 2025
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Wildfires raged across Southern California on Wednesday, leaving at least two people dead and prompting thousands of evacuations as blazes closed in on Los Angeles neighborhoods like the Pacific Palisades and residents hurried to escape.Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2025
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Now more people live at the flammable edges of wildlands, making places that are primed to burn into de facto suburbs.Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2025
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Security protocols embedded within each network node allow for immediate threat identification and isolation, while machine learning algorithms at the edge continuously monitor and adapt to new threats.Rafael Umann, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
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“Jump.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jump. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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