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Recent Examples of do up Three other bone grafts are awaiting transplantation, a procedure that can be done up to five years after donation. Kansas City Star, 29 Aug. 2025 After all, though TikTok may tell you that everyone is doing up their dorm rooms at the cost of roughly a new car, in reality, the average family spend (according to a RetailMeNot poll) is a much less jaw-dropping $598. Alex Apatoff, People.com, 27 Aug. 2025 Ivor was doing up his tie on the morning of the funeral when his father-in-law walked into the living room. Anne Enright, New Yorker, 27 July 2025 And just this month, Victor Victor did up two colorways of Nike’s Air Max Dn8 modeled after a few of his favorite cars. Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019 See All Example Sentences for do up
Recent Examples of Synonyms for do up
Verb
  • The brand unveiled its capsule with ready-to-wear talent Alessandro Enriquez, and the designer’s poppy prints decorated the entire showroom, from the walls to the furniture to the shoe boxes.
    Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Sky News Australia has canceled a show, designed to platform controversial debate, after a guest voiced anti-Islam views while wearing a shirt decorated with bacon.
    Jake Kanter, Deadline, 29 Sep. 2025
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  • Authorities said the arson suspect was, as captured on video at the time, clad in a gray hoodie and gray sweatpants walking on church grounds.
    Jose R. Gonzalez, AZCentral.com, 24 Sep. 2025
  • After paying a three-euro (about $3) gate fee at the park’s entrance, visitors then face another 10-minute ride further into the pine and gorse-clad hills along a switchback road that reaches about 1,000 meters above sea level.
    Barry Neild, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Johnson styled it simply with some silver and black cocktail rings, wearing her signature bangs and waist-length hair long and loose.
    Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The contestants come out wearing their final looks, and Michael Kors says that everyone’s collections were thoughtful and well-constructed, and then the judging begins.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2025
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  • From the cool, dank blue-gray tones of Maria’s basement to the clever signage that adorns the schoolroom walls, the production mechanics work to pull viewers further into this high stakes character study.
    Holly Jones, Variety, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Thug has managed to find a way to push the envelope all these years later with Uy Scuti, adorning a Druski-esque whiteface that reads as a somewhat subversive take on the current moment’s politics.
    Rolling Stone, Rolling Stone, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • So with that, don’t expect naked dressing to go anywhere anytime soon—Dakota Johnson still has much to say on the matter, with gala and awards seasons very much in motion now.
    Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Like everyone else in a sound stage, Silver is fully dressed in sweater, jeans, and boots with an N95 mask on.
    Sophie Ansari, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • At least four people were killed and eight were injured after a gunman attacked a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints service in Michigan on Sunday morning, police said.
    Joe Hernandez, NPR, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Since finding out the gun that killed Dark Hearts member Warren Clarke (Joshua Dye) at the trap house robbery gone wrong once belonged to one of their own, Perry has been on a mission to figure out who inside the biker gang was feeding information to the thieves.
    Megan McCluskey, Time, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Once those reserves are exhausted, China may be tempted to broker a deal to buy American soybeans, but those hopes may wither when the Southern Hemisphere's harvest season begins early next year.
    Marissa Meador, IndyStar, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Each one of those alerts puts millions of lives on hold – part of Russia’s strategy of terrorizing and exhausting Ukraine’s civilian population.
    Daria Tarasova-Markina, CNN Money, 25 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Meanwhile, Travis Kelce enjoys some chicken at the Kelce Car Jam in Kansas City, Missouri, and Richard Gere and his wife Alejandra Silva are all dressed up for the Giorgio Armani show in Milan.
    Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Among those dressing up, about 40% are millennials and 27% are part of Generation Z.
    Melina Khan, Freep.com, 29 Sep. 2025

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