BULKING (UP) Synonyms: 65 Similar and Opposite Words

bulking (up)

verb

present participle of bulk (up)

as in assembling

to bring together in one body or place she bulked up her hair with one hand as she reached for the shears with the other

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Teams are moving past small-scale lab tests and assembling the industrial supply chain needed to build actual power stations.

— Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 30 Sep. 2026
Don and Mera Rubell had spent decades assembling one of the world’s most important private collections of contemporary art.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2026

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Paramount’s Heart of the Beast is rounding up around $11 million in its second weekend for a cume of roughly $38 million.

— Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 3 Oct. 2026
Our expert team here at PCMag has been busy rounding up all the best early Prime Day markdowns already available, including laptops, headphones, robot vacuums, and more.

— Cierra Cowan, PC Magazine, 30 Sep. 2026

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The point is to allow young people to enter the workforce more quickly, avoid unnecessary costs, and continue accumulating skills over time.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2026
Warmer temperatures associated with El Niño can mean more precipitation falls as rain rather than snow at lower elevations, while colder, higher elevations remain more likely to see accumulating snow.

— Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 29 Sep. 2026

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To weaponize this advantage, the 30 clubs have withheld roughly $75 million each in central-fund distributions, amassing a $2 billion liquidity holdback.

— Chris Koras, Sportico.com, 28 Sep. 2026
For everyone else, there is the real-world practicum of amassing knowledge and experience that hopefully amounts to more than a shouting match over beer.

— Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of amassing

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In 2023, Canali debuted Care, an umbrella program grouping all the brand’s eco- and responsibility-minded initiatives.

— Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 21 Sep. 2026
Williams kept the respective songs from each album close together, grouping them in three- and four-track clusters.

— Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2026

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