boot (up)

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for boot (up)
Verb
  • More intense rainfall events from storms of all kinds are becoming more likely as warming temperatures prime the atmosphere to hold more water vapor.
    Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Exposure to such content also deteriorates her audience’s ability to form beliefs on the basis of the evidence and primes them for skepticism toward consequential matters like vaccines and medicine.
    Rafael Perez, Oc Register, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • San Diego police’s Homeless Outreach Team has educated homeless people about the safe parking lot program and how to avoid tickets for oversized vehicles, and has helped them get connected with services like housing help.
    Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Nov. 2025
  • His five-year goal is to continue educating people on the practical uses of AI through his dedication to lifelong learning and helping others succeed in the evolving technological world.
    K. H. Koehler, USA Today, 4 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Southern food icon Edna Lewis schooled our Test Kitchen in the mid-1990s with this recipe, garnering their highest praise.
    Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 2 Nov. 2025
  • Amari Marshall broke down Cowboy Dance influences, King Charles repped Chicago footwork, Ladia Yates schooled dancers in Memphis Jookin’, and line-dancing expert Shakeema Prescott brought the house together in unison.
    Okla Jones, Essence, 28 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Following the tense confrontation, Itsaragrisil instructed security to remove Bosch from the pre-competition briefing.
    Julia Teti, Footwear News, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Jurors were also tasked with deciding whether Zwerner was negligent and caused any of her own damages; if so, she would be barred from recovering any money from Parker, the judge instructed the jury.
    Cindy Von Quednow, CNN Money, 5 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Contractors working on the project recently completed pouring the foundation for what will provide smaller housing units meant to make quarantining detainees with communicable illnesses safer and easier.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Casting directors Cindy Tolan, Lucy Bevan and Patricia Vasconcelos provided a masterclass and held a series of casting sessions with Portuguese actors in the build-up to Passaporte Lisboa, a casting festival that runs in November.
    Martin Dale, Variety, 2 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Biannual launches have become the norm for the Shenzhou program, which has in the past year reached new milestones with the deployment of Chinese astronauts born in the 1990s, a world-record spacewalk, and plans to train and send the first foreign astronaut, from Pakistan, to Tiangong next year.
    Reuters, CNN Money, 1 Nov. 2025
  • Many of the therapists are trained in and hail from Asia.
    Jacqui Gifford, Travel + Leisure, 31 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • While some residents gear up to rebuild in the aftermath, a handful of notable properties survived the flames, and one such example with a rich artistic legacy has just hit the market.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 6 Nov. 2025
  • This ruling is a big splash as NASCAR and plaintiff teams 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports gear up for trial in Charlotte to punctuate a lawsuit in which 23XI and FRM assert that NASCAR is a monopoly.
    Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 5 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • The peaches were used to make the salsas produced by both manufacturers and supplied to Kroger locations.
    Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Companies used the standpipe to bring water to the Rio Verde Foothills housing development after Scottsdale stopped supplying that community with water for several months in 2023.
    Austin Corona, AZCentral.com, 6 Nov. 2025
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“Boot (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boot%20%28up%29. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.

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