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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Why hardware is notoriously difficult To build and ship a family of new devices, the Ive-OpenAI alliance will need to be hyper-focused, including assembling a manufacturing system from scratch.

— Emily Forlini, Fortune, 22 July 2026
Microsoft's Agent Operating System Rather than focusing exclusively on the model layer, Microsoft is assembling what increasingly looks like an operating system for agents.

— Francis Sideco, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026

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French biotech company bioMérieux tracks trends in gastrointestinal pathogens by collecting test results from a network of laboratories.

— Deidre McPhillips, CNN Money, 21 July 2026
Cyanotype workshops begin with collecting local plants and flowers, then using sunlight to create blue-toned prints.

— Emese Maczko, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026

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Depp emerged from the door of the installation and addressed the crowd, which had been gathering on the street in front of the installation for more than an hour.

— Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 23 July 2026
By late morning, the palace courtyard and surrounding streets were considerably busier, helped along by crowds gathering for the changing of the guard.

— David Nikel, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026

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Scammers often pretend to be lawyers offering ways to avoid in-person court hearings, taking advantage of anxieties among even lawful residents after ICE officers began rounding up people during immigration proceedings.

— Naisha Roy, ProPublica, 16 July 2026
In other environment news Federal officials are rounding up and relocating 450 wild horses in the Inyo National Forest, near Mono Lake.

— Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026

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Since its introduction, CFM has delivered more than 10,000 LEAP engines worldwide, with the fleet accumulating over 100 million engine flight hours.

— Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 19 July 2026
What happens when interconnected debt starts accumulating faster than human understanding can keep pace?

— Doug Shannon, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026

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