crying up

present participle of cry up

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for crying up
Verb
  • The height difference between the dogs left people cracking up.
    Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Apa and Cline are both cracking up now as Apa drops one more bomb.
    EW.com, EW.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The brand is blowing up for its bold designs, playful colorways, and the distinct versatility of its catalog.
    Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Surely Putin was in a panic at that point, for had NATO even threatened to take any action—such as blowing up the Kursk bridge and thereby trapping his army in Ukraine—he would have been left with the choice of surrender or all-out intercontinental nuclear war.
    Robert Kagan, The Atlantic, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Bungie took the rare step of doing an emergency buff live patch last night after announcing it in the TWAB to try to fix/improve The Portal and loot systems.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • This is not Chiu, who enthusiastically takes part in the process, sometimes even announcing purchases for the Crocker on social media.
    Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • China has been advertising plans to land Taikonauts — or Chinese astronauts — on the lunar surface for the first time by 2030, competing with NASA’s plan to return its own astronauts to the moon’s surface as soon as mid-2027.
    Andrew Freedman, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Freyne does a lot with a modest budget, finding smart ways to show us fantastical things — memories playing out as if dioramas at the Natural History Museum, a vast expo hall filled with stalls advertising various paradises — on an economical scale.
    Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2025
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“Crying up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crying%20up. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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