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

More energetic outdoor activities include swimming in the saltwater pool, walking or jogging on the Deck 15 track, paddle tennis, golf cages, and a mini-golf course.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Sep. 2026
For their final lesson, a volunteer — who isn't Woodside or Priest — traps the raccoons in cages, scaring them enough to encourage them to avoid traps and humans.

— ABC News, ABC News, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of cages

Noun

By dividing the nervous system up early, cells inherit a developmental history that allows a limited number of signals to trigger a great deal of complexity.

— JOHN TIMMER, ArsTechnica, 23 Sep. 2026
The duo is juiced by a 113 kWh battery comprising 192 lithium-ion cells.

— Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of cells

Noun

But the gates leading into the ostrich pens were now behind police lines.

— J. B. MacKinnon, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026
The youngest raccoons will spend a few weeks mostly indoors being bottle-fed by rehabbers until they’re vaccinated for diseases carried by cat colonies and dogs and are ready to move to outdoor pens.

— ABC News, ABC News, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of pens

Noun

Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Poland argues that artworks made by prisoners forced to do so in Nazi concentration camps are not their legal property.

— Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 18 Sep. 2026
In the 1930s, the Nazi government used a variety of forms of public data including tax returns and census records to help identify Jews who would be rounded up and sent to concentration camps where millions were killed.

— Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of concentration camps

Noun

For now, the court record describes a shipment declared as storage boxes, coolers and a chair that federal agents say instead contained firearms, thousands of rounds of ammunition and an assortment of unfinished receivers and other gun parts.

— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 17 Sep. 2026
Many are in poor shape, with thin, uninsulated walls, leaky windows, old or broken swamp coolers and electrical systems that can't always handle air conditioners.

— Alejandra Borunda, NPR, 7 Sep. 2026

Definition of coolers

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