BOBBED (UP) Synonyms: 45 Similar and Opposite Words

bobbed (up)

verb

past tense of bob (up)

as in shot (up)

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The utility this weekend also de-energized lines around a brush fire that broke out Saturday, prompting evacuation orders several miles south of Lahaina town, the site of the 2023 deadly fires.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 29 Sep. 2026
And over the summer, two models that were being tested by OpenAI broke out of their isolated testing environment, gained internet access and breached another company called Hugging Face.

— Joe Walsh, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of broke out

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The Board of Control for Cricket in India issued show-cause notices to both players and briefly suspended them from the national team.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 30 Sep. 2026
Between your wallet and the coffee shop sit a custodian holding your balance, a program manager running the card, a sponsor bank whose BIN it is issued under, a processor authorizing the swipe and the network that clears it.

— Shawn Yu, Forbes.com, 29 Sep. 2026

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The message emerged nearly eight months after Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of Today co-host Savannah Guthrie, disappeared from her home outside of Tucson.

— Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 30 Sep. 2026
The company’s drilling concept emerged from more than a decade of research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of emerged

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The water level rose and fell daily, the cycles gradually shifting over the course of the month.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 2026
The father-daughter pair embraced as Verlander started to cry, and the crowd quickly rose to their feet for a standing ovation.

— Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 27 Sep. 2026

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