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Recent Examples of do up Even the room, with its various plants and florals done up in towering arrangements, smells fresh and bright. Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 26 Sep. 2025 Adding a daybed in gingham, especially one done up in the coastal blue Perennials upholstery that winks at Dorothy’s iconic dress, is a clever way to play up the timeless print when brainstorming a new bedroom furniture layout. Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 26 Sep. 2025 His face is done up in traditional calavera face paint. Bestreviews, Mercury News, 18 Sep. 2025 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 See All Example Sentences for do up
Recent Examples of Synonyms for do up
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  • Look to flea market finds to decorate with your harvest bounty.
    Emily Williams, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Students took on more responsibility, leading cultural celebrations and decorating school halls.
    Annabelle Canela, Parents, 7 Oct. 2025
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  • Dillane, clothed in an Adidas track suit, smokes a cigarette.
    Esther Zuckerman, Time, 10 Oct. 2025
  • In the months that followed, the brewery has become a place where guests clad in blue and orange jerseys go to celebrate a Detroit Lions or Tigers game over creamy Honey Oat Stouts.
    Lyndsay C. Green, Freep.com, 9 Oct. 2025
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  • Her daughter, who is now 8, bounded down the steps first, wearing a pink bow and a broad smile.
    Melissa Sanchez, ProPublica, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Additionally, people can wear long pants tucked into socks and shirts tucked into pants, according to the press release.
    Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 10 Oct. 2025
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  • There was Tracy Rocker, who won the Outland Trophy as an Auburn defensive lineman and was a Georgia assistant from 2014-16, taking his team into Jordan-Hare even when a mural of him adorned that very stadium.
    Seth Emerson, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Because the bookshelves were adorned with busts of the early Roman emperors, individual volumes were identified by the emperor whose bust stood above them (Julius Caesar was treated as the first emperor and two female figures, Cleopatra and the empress Faustina, were also included).
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Oct. 2025
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  • Guests are encouraged to bring lawn chairs, and dress in denim and cowboy boots.
    Linda Mcintosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Duane dragged the deer out of a band of alders and into a large grassy meadow so that nothing could sneak up unseen during the field-dressing process.
    Marguerite Reiss, Outdoor Life, 9 Oct. 2025
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  • The Taliban government's chief spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, said Afghan forces have captured 25 Pakistani army posts, 58 soldiers have been killed, and 30 others wounded.
    NPR, NPR, 12 Oct. 2025
  • In Israel's ensuing offensive, more than 67,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, according to Gaza's Health Ministry, which doesn't differentiate between civilians and combatants but says around half the deaths were women and children.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 12 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Instead of gradually boiling into insanity, the film hits fever pitch hallucinations right away and quickly exhausts itself attempting to keep pace.
    J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Vacherot won the next two points, exhausting Djokovic in a rally to get to 40-Ad.
    James Hansen, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Kids are encouraged to dress up, and the Carousel Gardens Amusement Park also stays open late.
    Jenny Adams, Southern Living, 12 Oct. 2025
  • In this song, Cece, Cody, and JJ dress up in adorable skeleton costumes and dance around the house like mischievous little Halloween spirits.
    Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 10 Oct. 2025

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“Do up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/do%20up. Accessed 14 Oct. 2025.

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