booted (up)

Definition of booted (up)next
past tense of boot (up)

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for booted (up)
Verb
  • Leading up to the offseason, with a weakened starting pitching class, Valdez is primed to be the headlining option in the winter, and Patrick McAvoy of Sports Illustrated thinks that the New York Mets are a prime landing spot.
    Hunter Mulholland, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • An April 2025 Hoover Institute report conducted in partnership with Stanford HAI found China has built a massive cohort of homegrown talent, with nearly all researchers behind DeepSeek’s five foundations papers educated or trained in China.
    Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Most of the men who wrote to Shere were not educated men from big cities, but men working on the line at the Ford plant at Dearborn, Michigan or men employed at strip mall legal firms.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • According to the indictment, Jones was paid $2,500 for a game in the Hamptons where he was instructed to cheat by paying close attention to others involved in the scheme.
    Michael R. Sisak, Chicago Tribune, 16 Apr. 2026
  • In a March 2025 executive order, the White House instructed the DOJ to apply the antitrust laws in the live-entertainment industry.
    Gail Slater, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Or was everyone present sufficiently schooled in Vermeer’s symbolic array?
    Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Once you’re schooled and ready to check out, remember to update your bed pillows, pillowcases, and, of course, treat yourself to a new sheet set.
    Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 8 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Scalping tickets wasn’t new, of course, but Kahn believed that its formalization online provided sports teams, and other entertainment businesses, with valuable information about demand that could enable them to make more money without alienating their most loyal fans.
    John Cassidy, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
  • But the endorsement in a safe Democratic district is unlikely to attract the major expenditures and outreach that UNITE HERE has provided in battleground states and districts.
    Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 19 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • The Angels mounted a late threat but couldn’t tie it.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2026
  • The setup relies on a mobile emitter that directs energy to an antenna array mounted beneath the aircraft, enabling continuous power delivery without physical connections.
    Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 19 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Shuttle services have been arranged to transport journalists between the media center and a hotel in the city’s main shopping mall.
    ABC News, ABC News, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Shipping can always be arranged—at a price.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Karyn Cordner’s Raven, a five-year-old black German shepherd with a soft coat of fur, was being trained to become a guide dog by the Fidelco Guide Dog Foundation in Bloomfield when the Simsbury resident first met her.
    Mikayla Bunnell, Hartford Courant, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Global Flavors, Southern Tables Prior to Noble South, Rainosek trained as a chef and front of house in Colorado before working at the Wash House in Fairhope and developing a local fan base.
    Anne Byrn, Southern Living, 11 Apr. 2026
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“Booted (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/booted%20%28up%29. Accessed 23 Apr. 2026.

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