as in to announce
to praise or publicize lavishly and often excessively
in exchange for his hefty endorsement fee, the basketball player is expected to cry up that brand of sneaker at every opportunity
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The pair announced their engagement in August 2025, and their wedding date was revealed in April.—
Stephanie Petit,
PEOPLE,
6 June 2026 -
The company behind several iconic series announced its next remake in the Resident Evil franchise.—
Brian Mazique,
Forbes.com,
6 June 2026
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Paige, known for his tall tales, would crack up other members of the organization.—
Graham Womack,
Sacbee.com,
7 June 2026
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Mark Toothaker, a stallion sales manager for Spendthrift Farm in Lexington, Kentucky, was on the couch cracking up with his wife, Malory, about the whiffed field goal and consequential turnover.—
Kelly O'Grady,
CBS News,
3 May 2026
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The documents include a guide on how to create stencils for graffiti and another on how and where to place large posters advertising the group, including instructions on how to mix flour and water to create wheat paste to stick the posters up.—
Will Carless,
USA Today,
4 June 2026
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This may come as a surprise in a time when telehealth companies are advertising on the subway platform and downloading an app might be the first step patients take to get a drug prescription.—
Theresa Gaffney,
STAT,
2 June 2026
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Adaptation was also critically acclaimed, and earned four Academy Award nominations.—
Virginia Chamlee,
PEOPLE,
27 May 2026
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BAMtheatre is a year-round, acclaimed, prize-winning youth theater conservatory, with its own building in Westmont, and has almost 3,000 students each year.—
Myrna Petlicki,
Chicago Tribune,
26 May 2026
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Along the southern front, Ukrainian drones began to blow up military convoys on the main road from Russia to Crimea.—
Simon Shuster,
The Atlantic,
6 June 2026
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One of those blew up on its landing attempt while another was purposefully expended to get its payload to a higher orbital insertion.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
4 June 2026
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The probiotics help support gut health by promoting a balanced microbiome, the community of microbes that live in your digestive tract and influence digestion, immunity, and mood.—
Lauren Panoff,
Verywell Health,
8 June 2026
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For years, solid-state batteries have been promoted as the next major breakthrough in electric vehicles, promising greater safety, longer driving range, and faster charging.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
8 June 2026
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Officials have in the past touted the 77th Street gang unit as one of the department’s best, trumpeting its arrests and seizures of gun and drugs on social media.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
4 June 2026
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As the title implies, the show trumpets the artist’s idiosyncrasy, which feels ever more at odds with the cultural moment.—
Jeremy Lybarger,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
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True ceramic and ceramic-coated pans are often touted as a safer alternative to Teflon pans.—
Ryan Brennan
June 2,
Sacbee.com,
3 June 2026
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Wellness influencers are touting bovine colostrum, which is the first milk cows make after giving birth, as a must-have supplement for supporting gut health.—
Suzanne Nuyen,
NPR,
2 June 2026
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“Cry up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cry%20up. Accessed 9 Jun. 2026.
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