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gear up

verb

Definition of gear upnext
as in to mount

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Recent Examples of gear up Hard Knocks gives an inside look at how NFL teams gear up for football season, and this year, the HBO and NFL Films docuseries featured the reigning Super Bowl champions, the Seattle Seahawks. — Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 1 Sep. 2026 Outside that box were all the Mega Millions players, who can gear up for a $145 million drawing on Friday, and all the Jackpot Triple Play players. — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 26 Aug. 2026 Expectations are sky high at Gillette Stadium as the Patriots gear up for the start of their quest to get back to the Super Bowl. — Lance Reynolds, Boston Herald, 20 Aug. 2026 As fashion apparel brands and retailers gear up for fall and the holiday shopping season, new data about consumers shows that the purchase decision is being influenced by a variety of factors. — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 19 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for gear up
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gear up
  1. mount
  2. steel
  3. fortify
  4. educate
  5. school
  6. brace
  7. ready
  8. prepare
Verb
  • Reciprocal male-on-male mounting among corpse-eating burying beetles increases with heat stress, and chronic heat stress coagulates the blood of Holstein Friesian cattle.
    — J. B. MacKinnon, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026
  • Amid soaring casualties on the front lines, mounting economic hardship and rising public anxiety, the reality of what Russia calls its Special Military Operation in Ukraine is increasingly being felt.
    — Matthew Chance, CNN Money, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of mount
Verb
  • Instead, Houthi actions seem to have steeled Riyadh’s resolve to confront the group.
    — April Longley Alley, Foreign Affairs, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Glasnow steeled this time, mixing in his slider to keep hitters off his fastball after being too predictable early.
    — Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of steel
Verb
  • But the changes came after the early signing day for high school recruits and just before the transfer portal opened — not much time for new staffers to assess FSU’s personnel and fortify its roster.
    — Matt Baker, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026
  • The addition of cotton and raw material-producing countries like Egypt and Ethiopia further fortifies a strong sourcing platform that already includes manufacturing giants India and China.
    — Mayu Saini, Footwear News, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of fortify
Verb
  • People are asking artists to show up, educate themselves and be in community.
    — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 24 Sep. 2026
  • The goal of the truck is not only to educate the public on the extent and content of the files, but to bring them to life, according to Sharlene Rochard, who identifies as a survivor of Jeffrey Epstein’s grooming and abuse.
    — Allison Kiehl, Chicago Tribune, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of educate
Verb
  • Musically schooled in Vienna, Higginson hired the players, chose the conductors, and shouldered the deficits.
    — Joseph Horowitz, The New York Review of Books, 19 Sep. 2026
  • To that end, the Dolphins will school Willis on how to run and teach the players around him how to block for a running quarterback.
    — Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of school
Verb
  • Parts of the Midwest are bracing for potentially significant flash flooding Saturday from rounds of heavy rain forecast to hit throughout the day.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 19 Sep. 2026
  • Vyacheslav Prokofyev | Afp | Getty Images Russian President Vladimir Putin is bracing for a wartime reckoning as the Kremlin prepares to hold its first parliamentary election since the country's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in early 2022.
    — Sam Meredith,Anniek Bao, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of brace
Verb
  • Last month, a judge denied Anthony's motion for a new trial, though the family is readying another appeal.
    — James Cirrone, FOXNews.com, 19 Sep. 2026
  • The Spaniard tried to prepare his players for a crunch game at Anfield by playing You’ll Never Walk Alone, the emotive track that greets the Liverpool players onto the pitch before games, to help ready them for the atmosphere.
    — Greg O'Keeffe, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of ready
Verb
  • Stanford professor Matt Abrahams and Zapier CEO Wade Foster discuss how leaders are using AI to synthesize information, structure ideas, prepare for difficult conversations, and rehearse for high-stakes moments.
    — Harvard Business Review, Harvard Business Review, 24 Sep. 2026
  • The company must now complete its interior systems, install and commission specialized production equipment and prepare the facility for commercial operations.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of prepare

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“Gear up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gear%20up. Accessed 27 Sep. 2026.

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