HITS (UP) Synonyms: 28 Similar and Opposite Words

hits (up)

verb

present tense third-person singular of hit (up)

as in asks

to make a request of she's always hitting me up for money

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The lawsuit asks the court for an injunction that would prevent OpenAI or its agents from accessing computer networks or systems without authorization.

— Molly Parks, The Washington Examiner, 29 Sep. 2026
Another question asks how the candidate would respond if the project’s requirements changed halfway through.

— Victor Karpenko, Forbes.com, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of asks

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An agent requests access and checks those terms against its mandate.

— Shlomit Wagman, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2026
Pocket rescissions occur when the president requests Congress to cancel funds as the end of the fiscal year approaches, according to the Government Accountability Office.

— Nicholas Kerr, ABC News, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of requests

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But when his best friend Lloyd (Bergen) invites Eddie’s first love and former camp sweetheart Erin (Cohan) to the bachelor weekend, the reunion becomes a reckoning with old relationships, unresolved love and the question of what might have been.

— Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 29 Sep. 2026
Retrospective reporting invites the question of what would have been reported had the outcome been worse.

— Sheikh Ahmed Dalmook Al Maktoum, Forbes.com, 29 Sep. 2026

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