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verb

past tense of pick up
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as in cleaned house
to make a place neat and orderly by removing extraneous stuff I thought you said you had picked up, so why are these things still lying around the rec room?

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Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of picked up
Verb
As the intensity of practices has picked up as of late, Hildeby has also stood his ground. Joshua Kloke, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025 Fillet picked up the estate in 1972 for a mere $138,000. Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 25 Sep. 2025 Declines picked up in recent years, with the growth rate down 3% between 2019 and 2024. Bailey Schulz, USA Today, 25 Sep. 2025 Edelman’s contract expired as Paramount+ canceled the Inside the NFL, which was then picked up by the CW. Jeff Fedotin, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025 The court was told that Lisa was picked up by her friends and sister from the train station before heading to the bar. Gabrielle Rockson, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2025 That victim was picked up in Boston’s North End, then stabbed and raped in suburban Wellesley. Willoughby Mariano, ProPublica, 11 Sep. 2025 Kept running, barefoot, as the bus picked up speed. Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025 Those potatoes have probably been picked up and examined multiple times before making their way into your cart. Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 4 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for picked up
Adjective
  • The film benefits from its avoidance of a too-tidy, sentimental outcome, even if some in the audience might be left craving one.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 3 Oct. 2025
  • As a professional organizer, my ears perk up anytime someone mentions the words ‘declutter’, ‘organize’, or ‘tidy,' in a conversation about productivity.
    Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • With 2020’s roguelike Hades, Supergiant Games mastered the hypnotic allure of the live-die-repeat cycle by making every attempt have meaning.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Bryant formed one of the elite QB/WR duos with Tony Romo, as the two mastered the back shoulder fade.
    Mark Kern, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Reaching the Frontier Over the past year, ByteDance has assembled top AI talent, hiring a former vice president of Google DeepMind to lead AI foundational research and luring other engineers and researchers away from Alibaba and other start-ups, the Financial Times reported in December.
    Andrew R. Chow, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
  • They were delivered fully assembled and dynamically balanced from the company’s production base on the Yangtze River.
    Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • China has gained a lead in batteries and is aiming for dominance in robotics and next-generation AI-powered manufacturing.
    Rebecca A. Fannin, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Team Reba also gained 28-year-old Cori Kennedy and 35-year-old Daron Lameek; Team Niall welcomed aboard 31-year-old Revel Day; Team Snoop locked in 24-year-old Natalia Albertini; and Team Michael won over 36-year-old Marty O’Reilly, 38-year-old Aarik Duncan and 34-year-old Rob Cole.
    Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The initial launch will aim for speeds near Mach 2, but project officials say later versions could reach Mach 4 or even Mach 5, the lower edge of true hypersonic velocity, once range restrictions are lifted.
    Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Near the climax of the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics—a living diorama of British history, directed by the filmmaker Danny Boyle—a model house was lifted away to reveal Berners-Lee.
    Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • He was arrested in November 1957 after the body of local hardware store owner and shopkeeper Bernice Worden, 58, was found hanging from hooks and mutilated in his shed.
    JR Radcliffe, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Ongoing litigation In recent months, more than 400 Venezuelans with TPS have been arrested during ICE check-ins and traffic stops, even though the protections were supposed to be in place before Friday’s ruling.
    Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 4 Oct. 2025
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  • Up-to-date employment data has become extra crucial to investors and the Federal Reserve, especially after policymakers resumed rate cuts earlier this month on signs that the labor market is weakening.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Red Sox manager Alex Cora provided an intriguing update on Mayer’s recovery, saying the 22-year-old shortstop is feeling great and has resumed baseball activities.
    Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The logo, hands, indexes, and rotor are trimmed in British racing green—the color of the legendary car brand.
    Carol Besler, Robb Report, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Her dark brown bob was freshly trimmed and curled toward her face; the top brushed and styled over the left side of her head.
    Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 2 Oct. 2025

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“Picked up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/picked%20up. Accessed 4 Oct. 2025.

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