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

The animals were kept in cages or kennels filled with feces or were tied up, and all of them were covered in ticks and fleas, according to the outlet.

— Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 29 July 2026
Territorial animals such as crocodiles must be isolated, which requires more cages and in turn, more funding.

— ABC News, ABC News, 29 July 2026

Definition of cages

Noun

Normal mice were drawn to the scents—but not mice whose granule cells had been silenced by optical fibers that the researchers implanted in the animals’ brains to switch these cells on and off.

— Tom Metcalfe, Scientific American, 29 July 2026
Budson explained that reading facial expressions, body language and tone of voice strengthens connections between brain cells and helps build new ones.

— Lauren Schuster, Miami Herald, 29 July 2026

Definition of cells

Noun

Drawing pens for the kids, highlighters for those profound poolside page turners, and most crucial of all, a bull-clip of Cambodia's note-heavy Riel.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 July 2026
These smaller autonomous vessels function as mobile submarine pens and small aircraft carriers, performing electronic warfare and launching various unmanned systems.

— Zita Ballinger Fletcher, Forbes.com, 28 July 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

Noun

Food and drink The property doesn’t offer a restaurant or bar on-site of any kind; guests carry in their own food, coolers, and ice.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 July 2026
There are rugs that don’t match, random seating arrangements, a haphazard collection of coolers, televisions, wine racks, murals and board games, a tiny stage here, a slightly larger one there.

— Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 27 July 2026

Definition of coolers

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