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booted (up)

verb

Definition of booted (up)

past tense of boot (up)

as in primed

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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

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Spencer was educated at Eton College, the prestigious school located in the English county of Berkshire, a stone’s throw from Windsor Castle.

— Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 19 Sep. 2026
In his view, Party operatives, who tend to be young, coastal, and college-educated, put their own policy preferences ahead of the median voter, who is a white fiftysomething with a high-school education living in the suburbs.

— Isaac Arnsdorf, New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2026

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After hearing about the pensions and the homes, Reid instructed lawyers to determine whether their clients could contribute toward the cost of their defense.

— Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 22 Sep. 2026
In 2000 Warren Jeffs instructed FLDS followers to pull their children from public schools in order to teach them in the community.

— Frannie Comstock, Encyclopedia Britannica, 22 Sep. 2026

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Musically schooled in Vienna, Higginson hired the players, chose the conductors, and shouldered the deficits.

— Joseph Horowitz, The New York Review of Books, 19 Sep. 2026
The episode went viral and prompted debate about the growing presence of content creators at sporting events — and whether newcomers are being adequately schooled in tennis’ distinct etiquette.

— Douglas Robson, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of schooled

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One of its most inventive features was the rolleron, a small toothed wheel mounted on each rear fin.

— Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 19 Sep. 2026
That's where the infamous Tubgaters held court with their traveling hot tub that is mounted on a trailer.

— Joe Kinsey OutKick, FOXNews.com, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of mounted

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In 1939, she was banned from performing in Washington’s Constitution Hall because of her race, and her manager, with help from Eleanor Roosevelt, arranged a performance in front of the Lincoln Memorial on Easter Sunday.

— Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2026
Lehrer arranged a meeting to sell him the files—then never showed up.

— Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of arranged

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An exhibit shows 100 other situations in which OpenAI’s GPT was trained on and memorized articles from the Times, with word-for-word copying.

— Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 18 Sep. 2026
Many of us have been trained to see a verification code from our bank as an extra layer of protection.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 18 Sep. 2026

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