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as in contains
to keep from exceeding a desirable degree or level (as of expression)
a company that cannot manage to pull in costs will not be in business for very long
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as in arrests
to take or keep under one's control by authority of law
he was pulled in after a random traffic stop turned up drugs in his car
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Recent Examples of pulls in
The note pulls in the opposite direction of the clean-laundry fragrances that dominated recent fragrance cycles.
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Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Sacbee.com, 12 June 2026
His company, now headed by his grandson, still pulls in more than $250 million a year.
—Alex Knapp, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
As the boat pulls in, the children clamber over the side, wading through the shallows past abandoned, submerged school buildings.
—Tommy Trenchard, NPR, 31 May 2026
Everyone in the building pulls in the same direction.
—Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 25 May 2026
The star continuously sheds gas through strong stellar winds, and the black hole pulls in some of that material through its gravity.
—Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 10 May 2026
The mix of arts, food and medical employment pulls in a wide demographic.
—Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 May 2026
Balthazar The SoHo French brasserie remains the city’s reigning brunch institution, with oysters, fries and a happy hour that pulls in fashion power players and movie stars in equal measure.
—Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 1 May 2026
Iowa State Fair — Mid-August The Iowa State Fair in Des Moines pulls in more than a million people each year and is one of the oldest and largest agricultural and industrial expositions in the country.
—Lauren Schuster, Charlotte Observer, 30 Apr. 2026
Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Sacbee.com, 12 June 2026
His company, now headed by his grandson, still pulls in more than $250 million a year.
—Alex Knapp, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
As the boat pulls in, the children clamber over the side, wading through the shallows past abandoned, submerged school buildings.
—Tommy Trenchard, NPR, 31 May 2026
Everyone in the building pulls in the same direction.
—Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 25 May 2026
The star continuously sheds gas through strong stellar winds, and the black hole pulls in some of that material through its gravity.
—Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 10 May 2026
The mix of arts, food and medical employment pulls in a wide demographic.
—Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 May 2026
Balthazar The SoHo French brasserie remains the city’s reigning brunch institution, with oysters, fries and a happy hour that pulls in fashion power players and movie stars in equal measure.
—Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 1 May 2026
Iowa State Fair — Mid-August The Iowa State Fair in Des Moines pulls in more than a million people each year and is one of the oldest and largest agricultural and industrial expositions in the country.
—Lauren Schuster, Charlotte Observer, 30 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pulls in
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It is widely accepted that a teaspoon of productive soil generally contains between 100 million and one billion bacteria, thus the name and rallying cry of the Forum.—
Louise Schiavone,
Forbes.com,
14 June 2026
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The final film contains 82 minutes of score.—
Jon Burlingame,
Variety,
14 June 2026
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Keith arrests our thinking, and cons us into suppressing our critical faculties with the same kind of internalized surveillance that philosopher Michel Foucault broke down to describe a prison’s use of the panopticon in Discipline and Punish.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 May 2026
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Devlin throws a punch at Stone when the chief arrests him for drunken driving.—
Sandra Dallas,
Denver Post,
19 Apr. 2026
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Whoever controls those constraints—chips, electricity, grid capacity, and digital infrastructure—will have disproportionate influence over global growth.—
Ken Silverstein,
Forbes.com,
14 June 2026
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Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and now first-ever trillionaire, controls a lot of different businesses.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
13 June 2026
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Trump seizes America’s 250th-birthday spotlight, headlining the Great American State Fair, hosting a UFC bout at the White House and promoting new passports, $250 bills and coins bearing his image.—
Will Weissert,
Los Angeles Times,
3 June 2026
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Ellie brings up the salad and seizes the opportunity to take credit for her part in making lunch.—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
26 May 2026
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Pace’s pass-rush potential keeps him in the fold, but Flores prefers not to play him on passing downs.—
Alec Lewis,
New York Times,
16 June 2026
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The microbe lives under the eyelid and keeps producing the anti-inflammatory protein over time.—
Samantha Agate,
Kansas City Star,
16 June 2026
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Naturally, Ohtani also singled, doubled, walked and drove in two runs in that game.—
Stephen J. Nesbitt,
New York Times,
16 June 2026
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Teams trailing by at least eight runs in the eighth inning or later had lost 4,291 consecutive games, according to Sportradar.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
15 June 2026
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Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine engineered the harmless eye-dwelling microbe Corynebacterium mastitidis to secrete interleukin-10 (IL-10), a protein that regulates inflammation and supports wound healing.—
Samantha Agate,
Kansas City Star,
16 June 2026
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How the Living Eye Drops Work The Pitt team engineered Corynebacterium mastitidis, a benign microbe that already resides under the eyelid, to continuously secrete interleukin-10 (IL-10), a small protein that regulates inflammation.—
Samantha Agate,
Charlotte Observer,
16 June 2026
Verb
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The design is what grabs your attention at first sight.—
Utkarsh Sood
June 12,
New Atlas,
12 June 2026
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Radke grabs a book and hands it to me.—
Marlow Stern,
Variety,
10 June 2026
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“Pulls in.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pulls%20in. Accessed 16 Jun. 2026.
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