1
as in pulled
to cause to follow by applying steady force on
the deliveryman dragged the barrels over against the wall
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2
as in lingered
to move or act slowly
one of the climbers was beginning to drag
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3
as in crawled
to move slowly
the play dragged and seemed to take forever to get to its predictable conclusion
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Recent Examples of dragged
In that second leadership election, he was roundly defeated by Jeremy Corbyn, a veteran socialist whose victory dragged the party leftwards.
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Issy Ronald,
CNN Money,
20 June 2026
As the Bucks dragged their feet on the Antetokounmpo situation, a number of other teams gave up on the season entirely.
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Bryan Toporek,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2026
As the conflict in the Middle East has dragged on, pressure has been building on Capitol Hill to intervene.
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Zachary Schermele,
USA Today,
18 June 2026
The ruling is the latest twist in a case that has dragged on for eleven years.
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News Desk,
Artforum,
18 June 2026
However, the months dragged on, and that new lease never materialized.
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Ryan P. C. Trimble,
Chicago Tribune,
17 June 2026
As Olsson stuck out his left leg to try to block, Cruyff dragged the ball behind his standing leg.
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Stuart James,
New York Times,
16 June 2026
Negotiations with Brightline, however, have dragged on since then, leading some to question why taxpayers built the station without first negotiating a deal.
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Joshua Ceballos,
Miami Herald,
16 June 2026
The bear bit his arm and dragged him between 20 and 30 feet before running away.
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Kelly McGreal,
FOXNews.com,
12 June 2026
Issy Ronald,
CNN Money,
20 June 2026
As the Bucks dragged their feet on the Antetokounmpo situation, a number of other teams gave up on the season entirely.
—
Bryan Toporek,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2026
As the conflict in the Middle East has dragged on, pressure has been building on Capitol Hill to intervene.
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Zachary Schermele,
USA Today,
18 June 2026
The ruling is the latest twist in a case that has dragged on for eleven years.
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News Desk,
Artforum,
18 June 2026
However, the months dragged on, and that new lease never materialized.
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Ryan P. C. Trimble,
Chicago Tribune,
17 June 2026
As Olsson stuck out his left leg to try to block, Cruyff dragged the ball behind his standing leg.
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Stuart James,
New York Times,
16 June 2026
Negotiations with Brightline, however, have dragged on since then, leading some to question why taxpayers built the station without first negotiating a deal.
—
Joshua Ceballos,
Miami Herald,
16 June 2026
The bear bit his arm and dragged him between 20 and 30 feet before running away.
—
Kelly McGreal,
FOXNews.com,
12 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dragged
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After the network successfully pulled together a motley crew of Real Housewives offspring and their Manhattan socialite friends last year, the gang is back for a second season in the city.
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Arraez pulled a 1-1 curveball from the Athletics’ Aaron Civale off the top of his right foot and collapsed to the ground in pain.
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Yet, the same themes of access and power have lingered around the presidency in the eight decades since.
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The claim that creatine causes hair loss has lingered since 2009, shaping decisions for gym-goers and athletes weighing whether to add it to their routine.
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Street sweepers and garbage trucks crawled through roads fans had packed hours earlier.
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Last December, a rat appeared from the overhead bins and crawled behind a curtain in the cabin while a flight was en route from Amsterdam to Aruba, according to previous reporting from USA TODAY.
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Pigs that were being hauled by the semi could be heard squealing at the scene.
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The tractor rumbled onward, into the sun, hammering over a divot where a tree had been cut long ago, its stump hauled away.
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The theory here is that avarice and ambition can best be defeated by means of somebody else’s avarice and ambition; power’s inevitable corrupting effect is thereby mitigated or delayed.
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Automatic contributions, delayed payment windows, small rituals that add friction to impulse spending — these are all behavioral architecture moves, not acts of self-denial.
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Separately, Miami-Dade received another $7 million in federal dollars just for World Cup transportation costs — an expense that has crept higher in the two years since the Host Committee originally floated the $46 million subsidy package for Miami-Dade to cover World Cup security and logistics.
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Flames crept across a Rio Linda meadow Tuesday as firefighters from three agencies intentionally set fire to 35 acres of dry grass — not to battle a wildfire, but to prevent one.
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In bringing a piece of her mother to the event, Obama tugged at a feeling that many will relate to – wishing a late family member could be with you during life’s milestone moments.
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One weekend last November it was tugged around the harbor wrapped in a pink Nike ad.
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Griffin also poked at the cohosts in the immediate aftermath of Hasselbeck and former View moderator Rosie O'Donnell's legendary on-air fight in 2007, as Griffin was a guest host the following day and brought up the incident numerous times — which annoyed Walters in the moment.
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Late in the third, the Knights seemed to retake the lead after Pavel Dorofeyev poked home a loose puck.
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“Dragged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dragged. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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