booted (up)

verb

Definition of booted (up)next
past tense of boot (up)
as in primed

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for booted (up)
  1. primed
  2. educated
  3. instructed
  4. schooled
  5. provided
  6. mounted
  7. arranged
  8. trained
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  • 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
Definition of primed
Verb
  • As a result, health care and child care providers alike need to be re-educated on measles.
    — Katie Lockwood, STAT, 28 Oct. 2026
  • Born and raised in Latin America, Jose was educated as an accountant and worked for investment banks before founding a wildly successful private equity firm.
    — Christina Wing, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of educated
Verb
  • At the March meeting, when council members approved an antidiscrimination ordinance introduced by Councilmember Byers, the council also instructed city staff to work out the details of a potential multi-partner domestic registry.
    — Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2026
  • Reyes also instructed federal officials to preserve their communications regarding golf course planning.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 4 Nov. 2026
Definition of instructed
Verb
  • Born in Tonga, he was raised in Hawaii and schooled in Missouri.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Turns out that whoever at their urban university up north briefed them on their task had also schooled them in how to interact with rural Ozark folk.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of schooled
Verb
  • The results provided an early indication of voter support for the school board’s direction as the district faced declining enrollment and difficult budget decisions.
    — Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 4 Nov. 2026
  • The second provided the means to revoke trust in the digital certificate used to sign older vulnerable Windows boot managers.
    — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 3 Nov. 2026
Definition of provided
Verb
  • Meanwhile, airborne early-warning aircraft often use large radar arrays mounted above the fuselage to provide surveillance over a broad area.
    — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Concerns mounted in July, when OpenAI disclosed that two of its models escaped containment, accessed the open internet and breached a company called Hugging Face.
    — Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of mounted
Verb
  • The Ohio State University The team explored several Scentronic designs, including a lightweight wristband with two scent channels, a necklace with five arranged like pearls on a string, and a handheld five-channel version.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 1 Nov. 2026
  • There is also concrete poetry—writing arranged in images or geometric forms—a tradition that can be traced to ancient instances of shaped poetry.
    — Alec Mapes-Frances, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2026
Definition of arranged
Verb
  • That's why parties involved in elections have their own monitors, who have been trained as the feds have.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 31 Oct. 2026
  • The department has since lost at least five firefighters during negotiations, including a paramedic and hazardous-materials technician trained to respond to incidents involving dangerous chemicals.
    — Verónica Egui Brito, Miami Herald, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of trained
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“Booted (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/booted%20%28up%29. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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