knocked up

past tense of knock up, British

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of knocked up Meanwhile, while Miranda busies herself with building a pageant empire, her husband Ray, a pill-popping nurse, has knocked up the 18-year-old granddaughter of one of his hospice patients. Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 28 Aug. 2025 Julia, worried, maintains that she’s not knocked up. Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 15 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for knocked up
Verb
  • That woke me up to the bogus nature of the operators using the web and producing ads and subscriptions.
    Jim Cramer, CNBC, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Alex Vesia waked two in the eight but stranded the tying run at third.
    Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 24 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • With the nation’s freedom hanging in the balance, the founders discover true liberty cannot only be written into law – it must be awakened in the hearts of the people.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Cases are flooding the courts, with hearings in DC’s local criminal court routinely lasting late into the night and federal prosecutors awakened for new cases.
    Danya Gainor, CNN Money, 28 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • After a lifeless Eagles offense awoke with a third-quarter touchdown to pull within 26-14, Davis forced Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford out of bounds on a punt-forcing sack by chasing him halfway across the field.
    Brooks Kubena, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Residents awoke to an atmospheric anomaly — fueled by meteorological conditions trapping smoke from Northern California wildfires — in which the sky did indeed turn a smoky orange.
    Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 18 Sep. 2025

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“Knocked up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/knocked%20up. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.

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