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verb

past tense of make up
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Recent Examples of made-up
Adjective
Something more insidious is at play with all of the half-baked or made-up statistics. Lisa Jarvis, Mercury News, 6 June 2025 The irony is that it is accepted that the tabloids found in the grocery store checkout aisle are often made-up or greatly exaggerated. Peter Suciu, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025 American agricultural products once made-up 40 percent of China's market; that amount has fallen below 20 percent. John W. Dean, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Apr. 2025 Canons are as made-up as the stories that are part of them, so Dark Forces still has value as part of an old continuity that remains fun and quite wacky at times. Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 7 Mar. 2025 According to Jackson, our completely made-up (but almost certainly accurate) mythology for the ABC sudser isn’t necessarily dead in the water. Claire Franken, TVLine, 4 Mar. 2025 Canons are as made-up as the stories that are part of them, so Dark Forces still has value as part of an old continuity that remains fun and quite wacky at times. Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 7 Mar. 2025 To answer these questions, a group of 15 participants made-up of university students, recent graduates, and young adults, played the four online games mentioned—Valorant, Counter-Strike 2, Overwatch 2, and Fortnite. Mia Taylor, Parents, 16 Jan. 2025 Telling lies to appease a user even if a false or made-up answer is provided. Lance Eliot, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for made-up
Adjective
  • In the film, a massive great white shark hunts people swimming in the water surrounding the fictitious Amity Island.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 13 June 2025
  • Ever since Max began streaming the drama about life in a fictitious Pittsburgh emergency room, it’s been one pinch-me moment after another for Wyle and his fellow executive producers John Wells and R. Scott Gemmill.
    Lynette Rice, Deadline, 12 June 2025
Verb
  • Carter’s look comprised a corset top with crystal embellishments and matching pants featuring a slit around the knees to improve her mobility during the performance.
    Renan Botelho, WWD, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Each unit comprised a photon transceiver and a digital processing unit, and the devices were hooked together via 10 km of dedicated optical fiber.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 21 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Before the Frazier and Foreman fight was devised, former heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali was stripped of the title.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 22 Mar. 2025
  • Price controls don’t work, whether they’re devised domestically or imported from abroad.
    Sally Pipes, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • The Teddy Bear, velocipedes, and the Erector Set was first marketed in 1913, as a toy that could be put together as one thing, taken apart and built into something else.
    Dawn Mitchell, The Indianapolis Star, 24 Dec. 2024
  • As if the children of the Jews who have built so much of and in Chicago were merely an afterthought.
    The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 24 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Answer: Minnesota Who was Riley’s childhood imaginary friend?
    Kara Nesvig, Parents, 17 June 2025
  • Several heads of industry have toyed with creating an imaginary staff, embracing the self-mirroring feedback loop of their output as a plus.
    Sheldon Pearce, NPR, 17 June 2025
Verb
  • The monument is composed of rocks transported from far and wide—impressive feats of shipping for its Neolithic builders.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Every product was determined to have excelled in each category by our editorial team, which is composed of in-house writers and editors as well as contributors—along with special consideration from dermatologists.
    Jenny Berg, Allure, 24 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • In the book, five strangers – a white American geographer, a South Sudanese translator, a northern Sudanese cook, a Sudanese-American filmmaker, and a local boy – find themselves at an NGO compound in the fictional town of Saraaya, on the border of Sudan and South Sudan.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 23 June 2025
  • The fictional town of Havenport was filmed in Wilmington, NC, and nearby Southport, NC.
    Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
Verb
  • The Corruption Investigation Office for High-Ranking Officials (CIO), working with police and military investigators, is probing whether Yoon's actions constituted rebellion.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 2 Jan. 2025
  • In a forum on Eleven Warriors, a popular Buckeyes fan website, a commenter recently polled fellow fans about what constituted success this season.
    Andrew Greif, NBC News, 31 Dec. 2024

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