BULL PENS Synonyms: 51 Similar and Opposite Words

bull pens

noun

plural of bull pen

as in big houses

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Noun

Boomers stayed in the workforce longer than expected, retired later, and held on to big houses as starter homes disappeared beneath them.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 9 June 2026
However, a lot of big houses have been built on smallish lots.

— Richard Dahlberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Mar. 2026

Definition of big houses

Noun

In May, at the manufacturing facility, which stores thousands of gallons of toxic chemicals in pressurized tanks used to produce materials such as plexiglass for fighter jet and commercial aircraft windows, one tank threatened to leak or explode.

— Nilesh Christopher, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2026
But faced with the quantity and quality of Soviet tanks in the East, and British-American tanks in the West, the tank’s purpose became the achievement of total battlefield supremacy.

— Matthew S Williams, Interesting Engineering, 20 May 2026

Definition of tanks

Noun

At center stand two cages modeled after nineteenth-century shipping containers that carried Pacific breadfruit to Europe for study and consumption.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2026
Many sloths intended for display at the International Drive attraction languished and died by early this year in small cages inside an unheated warehouse.

— Rylan DiGiacomo-Rapp, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of cages

Noun

In lab experiments, cells with the Neanderthal receptor grew more than cells with the modern human version.

— Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 5 Aug. 2026
Prisoners who’d earned the privilege reported to work; those who hadn’t returned to their cells.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of cells

Noun

Classes will cover fine art materials with specific brands of watercolors, pens, and paints, as well as special techniques.

— Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Aug. 2026
That is why companies are moving to special pens to make injecting prescription GLP-1s and insulin less complex for untrained people.

— C. Michael White, The Conversation, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of pens

Noun

Outside of learning about ancient concentration camps and historic serial killers while Phaedra beams, the moment without Porsha serves as a Hail Mary pass for Shamea to try to salvage some of the damage from the night before.

— Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 20 July 2026
Maryland is home to a large Jewish community, many of whom had significant numbers of relatives who were butchered by the SS in concentration camps.

— Bobby Zirkin, Baltimore Sun, 9 July 2026

Definition of concentration camps

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