coughs up

present tense third-person singular of cough up

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Recent Examples of coughs up Each room coughs up its contents like a kid with consumption. Marni Jameson, Arkansas Online, 29 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for coughs up
Verb
  • In a street vacation, the city relinquishes the right of way or public service easement to an adjacent property owner or owners.
    Ashley Mackin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Concerns that safe storage renders guns insufficiently accessible during emergencies is valid, experts told CNN in a 2021 report.
    Kristen Rogers, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2025
  • This level of violence renders concerns about AI’s racial biases in beauty technology trivial by comparison.
    Essence, Essence, 24 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Order surrenders messily to disorder.
    Domenico Starnone, The Atlantic, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Each year, millions of cats and dogs enter shelters across the United States, many due to owner surrenders.
    Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The combination delivers a total of 1,250 hp to all four wheels.
    Ben Oliver, Robb Report, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The fashion capital of the world always delivers.
    Brendan Le, PEOPLE, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • This dual function allows the insect to execute dramatic maneuvers — up to 96-degree turns in 50 milliseconds — while propelling itself at speeds of 120 body lengths per second, a performance comparable to the acrobatic saccades of fruit flies in air.
    John Drake, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
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    Tanaya Macheel, CNBC, 11 Sep. 2025

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“Coughs up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coughs%20up. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.

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