as in to stop
to bring (something) to a standstill
the jockey tried to pull up the apparently injured horse
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Recent Examples of pull up
Commercial airplanes dart by, but one chartered flight sits parked away from the gates, a set of stairs pulled up to its open door.
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Kat Lonsdorf, NPR, 6 Feb. 2026
Video surveillance from a nearby home showed the Durango and a Ford Escape pulled up on Oneida Street, between Superior and Michigan streets, at separate times.
—Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2026
Instead, Cockson pulled up footage from the bar’s video cameras to find a car had gone through the establishment’s front window.
—Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 5 Feb. 2026
Coming of the bench midway through the first quarter, Adams promptly pulled up from the wing and made a 12-foot jumper in his first minute.
—Rick Armstrong, Chicago Tribune, 5 Feb. 2026
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Kat Lonsdorf, NPR, 6 Feb. 2026
Video surveillance from a nearby home showed the Durango and a Ford Escape pulled up on Oneida Street, between Superior and Michigan streets, at separate times.
—Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2026
Instead, Cockson pulled up footage from the bar’s video cameras to find a car had gone through the establishment’s front window.
—Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 5 Feb. 2026
Coming of the bench midway through the first quarter, Adams promptly pulled up from the wing and made a 12-foot jumper in his first minute.
—Rick Armstrong, Chicago Tribune, 5 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pull up
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From open models to real-world applications, China has shown that constraints have not stopped it from gaining ground.—
John Liu,
CNN Money,
11 Feb. 2026
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From there, James made second-team All-NBA the next season and didn’t stop landing on one of the three teams until this season.—
Scott Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
11 Feb. 2026
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But the shutdown will not halt Immigration and Customs Enforcement or Customs and Border Protection operations because Republicans in Congress sent those agencies tens of millions of dollars in extra funding last year.—
Riley Beggin,
Arkansas Online,
14 Feb. 2026
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Pay would be halted for 56,000 active duty, reserve and civilian personnel, but they would still be required to show up for work.—
Justin Gomez,
ABC News,
14 Feb. 2026
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Van Der Beek spoke with USA TODAY in August 2025 about the importance of catching it early.—
Alyssa Goldberg,
USA Today,
12 Feb. 2026
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Local officials were caught off guard.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Feb. 2026
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Much of the Department of Homeland Security is set to run out of money Saturday morning after negotiations stalled between the White House and congressional Democrats over new restrictions on federal immigration agents and lawmakers left town without funding the department.—
Riley Beggin,
Arkansas Online,
14 Feb. 2026
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The America First agenda is stalled; Senate leadership refuses to end the filibuster.—
Eleanor Dearman,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
14 Feb. 2026
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The nurse checked all your bells and whistles and plugged notes into your chart before noticing that the tape holding your breathing machine in place needed adjusting.—
Jasmin 'Iolani Hakes,
Literary Hub,
5 Feb. 2026
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Start by checking into the 12-key Washington School House Hotel, a charming boutique property that puts you within walking distance of the best shopping and eating on Main Street.—
Lydia Mansel,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Feb. 2026
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The rooms The rooms should be at the top of your list of reasons to stay at Joia Aruba.—
José Cantillo Ferrer,
Condé Nast Traveler,
15 Feb. 2026
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After acquiring veteran pitcher Mitch Spence from the Athletics on Thursday, the Royals stayed busy Friday by signing lefty pitcher John Means to a minor-league deal.—
Jaylon Thompson,
Kansas City Star,
14 Feb. 2026
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This is a far more reliable blueprint for a party’s resurrection than anything drawn up at a think tank.—
Mark Leibovich,
The Atlantic,
11 Feb. 2026
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That followed reports that Epstein left the children of Juul and her husband, Terje Rød-Larsen, $10 million in a will drawn up shortly before his death by suicide in a New York prison in 2019.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Feb. 2026
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Building legal structures that hold up over time When done correctly, strategic legal structures bring entity design, trust planning, governance, and real economic purpose together into one cohesive system.—
Malana VanTyler,
USA Today,
10 Feb. 2026
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The center is expected to hold up to 10,000 detainees—more than twice the entire population of Social Circle.—
Brian Unger,
CBS News,
10 Feb. 2026
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“Pull up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pull%20up. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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