line up

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Recent Examples of line up In the hip neighborhoods of lower Manhattan such as the Lower East Side or East Village, customers, many of whom are Gen Zers, line up at matcha tea specialty shops. Gary Stern, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025 The set comes with seven pumpkins in a variety of shapes and sizes to line up across the mantel, and can easily stand alone or be added to a full display with garlands and candles. Mariana Best, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Sep. 2025 Things line up well on both fronts. Kansas City Star, 5 Sep. 2025 There were just things at that specific place that didn’t line up. Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 3 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for line up
Recent Examples of Synonyms for line up
Verb
  • Zhmo Canvas Tote Bag Finding a work bag that checks every box—fits your laptop, holds your lunch and water bottle, keeps things organized, and still looks stylish—is no small feat.
    Alexandra Emanuelli, Southern Living, 14 Sep. 2025
  • This became clear from talking—between watching sail races—to those involved with organizing a Rolex SailGP event in France.
    Tom Mullen, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In November 2023, the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology introduced new social media regulations, requiring platforms to register with the government, set up a local contact point, appoint a grievance officer and designate an oversight official.
    Nir Kshetri, The Conversation, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Being tested often activates a threat response where your body registers scrutiny and judgment, even if no explicit conflict is happening.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Other extinct branches of the tree of life included Hawaiian honeyeater birds of the family Mohoidae and the Dinornithormes order which grouped giant flightless birds such as New Zealand’s moas.
    Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Connections is all about grouping words.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • His view aligns with ideas put forth by Gerard O’Neill, the late physicist and Princeton University professor who posited that humans should aspire to live in gargantuan space stations that orbit close to home and spin to provide simulated gravity.
    Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 12 Sep. 2025
  • When those patterns don't align well with reality, the result is confident-sounding misinformation.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Kurzweil’s singularity parallels ideas from Italian and Russian futurists amid the electrical and mechanical revolutions that took place at the turn of the 20th century.
    Sonja Fritzsche, The Conversation, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Along the top of the fire, the crews continue working slowly parallel with, and sometimes on, the McKinley Grove Road, doing clearing vegetation by hand, applying pre-treatment, and conducting critical strategic firing operations to remove heavy vegetation in front of the active fire front.
    CA WILDFIRE BOT, Sacbee.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The next step can be ordering imaging of your liver like an ultrasound or CT to look for evidence of abnormalities like fat accumulation in your liver.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The organization, a private nonprofit governing and promoting school sports events in the state, is not a defendant in the suit, but was ordered to provide extensive information in a 23-point list of requests included in the subpoena.
    Samantha Riedel, Them., 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The long silhouette with trumpet hems that ended mid-calf continued throughout the collection — as skirts worn with blouson coats, as dresses with matching flyaway scarves and ties, and as trench coats.
    Blue Carreon, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Single tickets sold California, Iowa, Maryland and Massachusetts matched all five numbers except for the Powerball worth $1 million each.
    Chris Sims, IndyStar, 14 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • North was convicted in 1989 on three felony charges for helping to arrange the illicit sale of weapons to Iran and divert the proceeds to fund a secret war against anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
    Josh Meyer, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Wegovy injection pens arranged in Waterbury, Vermont, US, on Monday, April 28, 2025.
    Karen Gilchrist,Katrina Bishop, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2025

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“Line up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/line%20up. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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