boot (up)

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Verb
  • Resistance training appears to prime a stronger nighttime growth hormone pulse, stacking the daytime signal with overnight repair.
    Allison Palmer, Kansas City Star, 6 May 2026
  • Bill Sheldrake, of Policy Analytics, noted the RDA gave the LDE $5 million in seed money to prime the pump for grants.
    Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 3 May 2026
Verb
  • Terracycle, a recycling company with a major distribution center in Aurora, will also be on-site to educate the community about waste diversion and creating a zero-carbon footprint, according to the news release.
    Aurora Beacon-News, Chicago Tribune, 28 Apr. 2026
  • At the heart of this is also the aim to create an ecosystem for young filmmakers – one that empowers and educates them on the importance of marketing and distribution so that great stories don’t just get made, but truly reach audiences.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 28 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Report authors Illinois' high ranking in 3-year-old enrollment is a result of most states not having schooling for 3-year-olds to begin with.
    Adam Harrington, CBS News, 23 Apr. 2026
  • He was likely schooled locally, studying Latin and classical writers such as Ovid and Virgil.
    Gitanjali Roy, Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Gun smoke filled the air over the South Lawn after a 21 gun salute and hung in the air as those with seats near the front of the ceremony were instructed to sit down.
    Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Hitters, no doubt instructed by their teams and aware of this new shift, have been taking more pitches.
    Ian Miller OutKick, FOXNews.com, 29 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • The full closure is required to safely accommodate heavy equipment operations, provide adequate workspace for crews, and protect motorists.
    Irene Wright, USA Today, 9 May 2026
  • Some are backing away from exclusionary discipline like suspensions and expulsions and have embraced schoolwide approaches that reward positive behavior and provide social skills practice through games and role-playing.
    Stacker, Hartford Courant, 9 May 2026
Verb
  • The 73-year-old Weinstein kept his eyes trained on Mann throughout her Tuesday testimony, intermittently whispering to his attorney, Teny Geragos.
    Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 29 Apr. 2026
  • The soldiers trained on both the Bumblebee V1, a small, first-person-view drone that has seen thousands of combat flights in Ukraine, and the newer Bumblebee V2, which has automatic target recognition specifically meant to counter other drones and which has not been deployed yet.
    Eleanor Watson, CBS News, 28 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Most women gear up for their first annual mammogram at age 40 to screen for breast cancer – but some experts are questioning whether this is too soon and too frequent.
    Angelica Stabile, FOXNews.com, 6 May 2026
  • So part of the budget went into paying for Tony to bring his gear up in a van.
    Matt Thompson, SPIN, 4 May 2026
Verb
  • The storefront, which opened in 1852, supplied early miners with dynamite and Studebaker wheelbarrows.
    Jennifer Wilson, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • The analyst views Marvell as a major beneficiary of the Amazon-Anthropic agreement, given that the company supplies Trainium application-specific integrated circuits, Ethernet switches, data processing units, and optical digital signal processors to AWS.
    TipRanks.com Staff, CNBC, 3 May 2026
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“Boot (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boot%20%28up%29. Accessed 10 May. 2026.

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