1
as in hauled
to cause to follow by applying steady force on
a team of horses pulling a heavy wagon
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2
as in yanked
to draw out by force or with effort
the dentist had to struggle to pull the tooth
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Recent Examples of pulled
While Democrats dominated the early voting numbers in Pulaski County -- one of the few heavily blue pockets of the state -- Democrats outnumbered Republicans in election day voting on Tuesday with 18,363 people casting Democratic ballots compared to the 10,500 who pulled ballots for Republicans.
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Arkansas Online, 5 Mar. 2026
The prosecutor alleged that Abril confronted the couple, at which point James MacEgan was shot and killed, before Abril grabbed MacEgan’s wife and pulled her into the creek.
—Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 4 Mar. 2026
Her prayers were answered when a man named Paul found her in the debris and remained by her side until rescuers pulled her to safety—the final survivor recovered from Ground Zero.
—Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 4 Mar. 2026
With father and son trailing him, Thomas pulled a handgun from his waistband and fired at the younger Alamo, Pekara said.
—William Lee, Chicago Tribune, 4 Mar. 2026
Last month, the administration pulled more than 1,000 immigration enforcement agents from the state.
—Austin Turner, CBS News, 4 Mar. 2026
Only eight of his 23 pitches (before Dodgers manager Dave Roberts pulled him from the game) were strikes with many of the misses wildly off the plate.
—Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 4 Mar. 2026
Original crew members, NASA astronauts Zena Cardman, who was originally slated to be commander but would have been making her first spaceflight, and Stephanie Wilson, a veteran of three space shuttle flights, were pulled from the mission.
—Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 Mar. 2026
If the fashion side of Love Story is what pulled you in, Green might be the reason that aesthetic energy feels familiar.
—Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 4 Mar. 2026
Arkansas Online, 5 Mar. 2026
The prosecutor alleged that Abril confronted the couple, at which point James MacEgan was shot and killed, before Abril grabbed MacEgan’s wife and pulled her into the creek.
—Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 4 Mar. 2026
Her prayers were answered when a man named Paul found her in the debris and remained by her side until rescuers pulled her to safety—the final survivor recovered from Ground Zero.
—Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 4 Mar. 2026
With father and son trailing him, Thomas pulled a handgun from his waistband and fired at the younger Alamo, Pekara said.
—William Lee, Chicago Tribune, 4 Mar. 2026
Last month, the administration pulled more than 1,000 immigration enforcement agents from the state.
—Austin Turner, CBS News, 4 Mar. 2026
Only eight of his 23 pitches (before Dodgers manager Dave Roberts pulled him from the game) were strikes with many of the misses wildly off the plate.
—Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 4 Mar. 2026
Original crew members, NASA astronauts Zena Cardman, who was originally slated to be commander but would have been making her first spaceflight, and Stephanie Wilson, a veteran of three space shuttle flights, were pulled from the mission.
—Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 Mar. 2026
If the fashion side of Love Story is what pulled you in, Green might be the reason that aesthetic energy feels familiar.
—Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 4 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pulled
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The resulting wood chips and soil are either piled in place to rot and decay or hauled offsite.—
Daniel Scott,
Better Homes & Gardens,
5 Mar. 2026
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That infrastructure had to be carefully cut and hauled away while a living manatee sat directly below.—
Ryan Brennan,
Charlotte Observer,
4 Mar. 2026
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Khvicha Kvaratskhelia yanked Monaco defender Vanderson into a series of strange shapes on the opposite touchline.—
Jack Lang,
New York Times,
26 Feb. 2026
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Three varieties of cottage cheese sold under Walmart’s Great Value brand got yanked from stores in 24 states on potential pasteurization problems.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
25 Feb. 2026
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The lead stretched to 12 early in the third quarter, but slowly and painfully for Parker, the hosts, with Archer attacking the glass, kept pecking away.—
Don Norcross,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Mar. 2026
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Meanwhile, working- and middle-class families are stretched thin.—
Tiffany Caban,
New York Daily News,
8 Mar. 2026
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Instead, much of Iraq rose up to expel US ground forces, and the war dragged on for eight years.—
Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN Money,
6 Mar. 2026
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The snake had dragged him roughly 30 feet from where their wrestling match began.—
Dac Collins,
Outdoor Life,
5 Mar. 2026
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The officers pried open the panel to free the woman, who was unable to get out of the tank on her own, according to the court records.—
Alex Riggins,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 Mar. 2026
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Hero Fiennes Tiffin and Dónal Finn, the stars of Amazon’s reimagined Young Sherlock series, have been pried away from set to talk to The Hollywood Reporter.—
Lily Ford,
HollywoodReporter,
4 Mar. 2026
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Protesters also burned a police station and damaged a school and the offices of a local charity in Gilgit, according to officials.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
3 Mar. 2026
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Of what could be seen, however, open source intelligence analysts identified the IRIS Sahand, IRIS Sabalan, and IRIS Zagros as damaged, and the IRIS Makran as heavily damaged.—
Brady Knox,
The Washington Examiner,
3 Mar. 2026
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When owner Nicholas Iwaniuk saw his dog Shadow, the half Australian shepherd, half Australian cattle dog tugged at her leash, charged forward and jumped into his arms.—
Tess Kenny,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Mar. 2026
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From life’s first moments, multiplying cells are squished, stretched, and tugged to form tissues that bend and twist into organs that expand and contract.—
Clare Watson,
Quanta Magazine,
27 Feb. 2026
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Training the controllers The controllers of the humanoid robot were trained on dynamic parkour motions extracted from the dataset, using reinforcement learning.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Mar. 2026
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To gain a more complete picture Rahman and Galib chemically extracted and analyzed the various rice proteins from brown rice, kernels, and rice bran.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
4 Mar. 2026
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“Pulled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pulled. Accessed 11 Mar. 2026.
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