Thesaurus results for POPPED (IN)

popped (in)

verb

past tense of pop (in)

as in visited

to make a brief visit I just popped in to say hello

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My mom visited several times, for parents’ weekend or for my choral concerts.

— Mary Frances Ruskell, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2026
Syrian sources cited by Israel Hayom said the Tuesday strike came just one day after a Turkish delegation visited the base, looking to turn it into a joint base for Syrian and Turkish forces.

— Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of visited

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At the same time, more land mines are being planted and bombs dropped in other conflicts such as the civil war in Myanmar and border conflicts between Cambodia and Thailand.

— ABC News, ABC News, 18 Aug. 2026
The project, which dropped in April, did not hold on to the Billboard charts for long and even failed to crack the top 20 on the Billboard 200.

— Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of dropped in

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Fueled by mass layoffs, the Bay Area’s tech talent workforce dropped by 6% from 2022 to 2025.

— Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2026
From 2020 to 2025, the number of vaccinated kindergarteners dropped by nearly 3%, accounting for 286,000 children in the United States.

— Irene Wright, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of dropped by

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Marco Bizot, recruited last year from Brest in France, stepped in and covered well.

— Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2026
Just days later, UEFA stepped in to appoint him as referee for its Super Cup, the annual clash between the Champions League and Europa League winners, marking yet another historic first for Artan and the continent.

— Aleks Klosok, CNN Money, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of stepped in

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An earlier version of this column originally ran in Club Sportico, our online newsletter community.

— Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 17 Aug. 2026
Andrews, a pediatrician, previously ran in 2022 for the state’s 1st Congressional District and won the Democratic primary for Senate in June.

— Oren Oppenheim, ABC News, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of ran in

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Police reinforcements were called late Saturday to the temporary accommodation center for asylum seekers in Sintiki, a few kilometers (miles) from the Bulgarian border, after migrants threw rocks at guards, according to police.

— ABC News, ABC News, 23 Aug. 2026
However, the displays produced artifact images called burn-in and the brightness of the OLED displays degraded quickly when the displays were operated at high brightness levels when used in the daytime.

— John Koetsier, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2026

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