PULLED Synonyms: 64 Similar and Opposite Words

pulled

verb

Definition of pulled

past tense of pull

as in hauled

to cause to follow by applying steady force on a team of horses pulling a heavy wagon

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as in yanked

to draw out by force or with effort the dentist had to struggle to pull the tooth

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as in stretched

to injure by overuse, misuse, or pressure lift the crate carefully, or you'll pull a muscle

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Recent Examples of pulled Our shopping editors have done the wandering for you and pulled the furniture deals worth acting on before midnight, with some marked down by more than 50%. — Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 7 Oct. 2026 Nick Pivetta yielded two runs and five hits while pitching into the fifth for the Padres, and Dustin May got pulled abruptly with a 1-0 count on Bogaerts and a runner aboard in the fourth. — ABC News, 7 Oct. 2026 Mortgage rates pulled back slightly this week, according to a separate survey from Mortgage News Daily. — Diana Olick, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2026 One out later, Freeman pulled his 18th career postseason homer to right field for a 3-0 lead. — CBS News, 7 Oct. 2026 In the same week, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman unveiled Dots, the company pulled its latest AI model and delayed its IPO due to existential safety concerns around the very same AI agent tech. — Amy O’Brien, Vogue, 6 Oct. 2026 However, following a string of violent political incidents, most notably the assassination of Charlie Kirk on September 10, 2025, Apple TV silently pulled the show from its release schedule mere days before it was set to premiere. — Isabella Albaig, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2026 At the start of the new school year, Harry and Meghan pulled their kids, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, from their initial school because of security risks with the daily commute. — Allison Degrushe, StyleCaster, 30 Sep. 2026 Wilson escalated then marched toward the spectator until teammates and officials pulled her back. — Alejandro Avila , Jackson Thompson Outkick, FOXNews.com, 30 Sep. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for pulled

Verb

Every chip and solar panel has to be hauled into orbit, and every answer those chips produce has to come back down.

— Peter Hall, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2026
In a humiliating ritual, the assistant manager was marched out the door, hauled downtown for an interrogation, and accused of a despicable crime.

— Kate Payne, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of hauled

Verb

Although nine episodes were filmed, only two aired before A&E yanked the controversial and critically panned series, WXIX reported at the time.

— Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 1 Oct. 2026
Two months later, Jimmy Kimmel Live was briefly yanked from the air over comments that host Jimmy Kimmel made about the killing of Charlie Kirk.

— Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of yanked

Verb

Unfurling through the grand midcentury Grill room was a snaking, glamorously gluttonous serpentine buffet that stretched from entrance to their 20-foot tall windows.

— Elise Taylor, Vanity Fair, 2 Oct. 2026
How to Stream the 2026 MLB Playoffs This year's MLB postseason is stretched across multiple networks and streaming services.

— Jason Cohen, PC Magazine, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of stretched

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Students sitting with arms linked at the elbows could only see in shards through a picket of shin guards, restricting their view of the area where classmates and roommates were dragged one by one and zip-tied face down on the spring grass.

— Sophie Landres, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
As Findley dragged the driver from the truck, Deputy Chase Blatt, driving north on I-35, saw the fire and the driver being pulled from the truck.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of dragged

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Merz and Zelenskyy visited a building of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in central Kyiv that was damaged in a Russian attack that killed two people on Monday, as air raid sirens sounded across the capital.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 5 Oct. 2026
Strikes on Kyiv’s bridges continue Russian attacks damaged Kyiv’s Northern Bridge over the Dnieper River again on Sunday.

— Susie Blann, Chicago Tribune, 4 Oct. 2026

Definition of damaged

Verb

The wind tugged and shook the bomber, but the pilot held her steady.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2026
But already the thought tugged at me that the scales that had turned were not celestial, but legal, the workings of the same system condemned in the camp as corrupt and broken.

— J. B. MacKinnon, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of tugged

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Allegations quickly emerged that DeepSeek had trained R1 in part on responses extracted from OpenAI’s models.

— Peter Hall, Scientific American, 7 Oct. 2026
Sergio Cremisini, an expert in digital forensic evidence, who extracted information from Sierra’s phone in 2012, 2018 and 2026.

— Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 6 Oct. 2026