dummy up

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dummy up
Verb
  • McIlroy would hush the USA crowd after putts, while Reed would bow to their applause.
    Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Robert Kraft — sandwiched in between Travis Scott and his fellow REFORM Alliance Board Member Michael Rubin — shared hushed conversations with both.
    Mackenzie Cummings-Grady, Billboard, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Federal funding for those programs dried up a couple of years later, but about 30 states decided to find other ways to pay for the programs.
    Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica, 7 Oct. 2025
  • As wetlands dry up and saline dust spreads, communities across the country face increasing health risks and environmental degradation.
    Amir Daftari, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Then, after Austin Jackson sustained his season-ending knee injury in early November in Miami’s loss to the Bills , the Dolphins run game clammed up.
    Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 29 July 2025
  • Although that doesn’t account for those opposite behaviors (e.g., clamming up).
    Caleb Harris, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
Verb
  • The compressed air is then piped down to enormous sealed salt caverns thousands of feet below the Earth's surface for long-term storage.
    Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 30 June 2025
  • At one point, crowd-surfers pulled pipes down from the ceiling.
    Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 15 June 2025
Verb
  • And here you are shut up in this little cage.
    Ron Arias, PEOPLE, 5 Oct. 2025
  • So pull up Duolingo to start brushing up on that high school Spanish, stop crying, shut up and dance.
    Angel Diaz, Billboard, 1 Oct. 2025
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“Dummy up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dummy%20up. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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