PULLED (UP) Synonyms: 68 Similar and Opposite Words

pulled up

verb

past tense of pull up

as in stopped

to bring (something) to a standstill the jockey tried to pull up the apparently injured horse

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Recent Examples of pulled up The $166 million summer signing pulled up shortly before the hour mark when attempting a run toward goal. — ABC News, 9 Sep. 2026 Rodon, 28, pulled up in the first half of Sunday’s match and limped off. — Beren Cross, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026 According to his probable cause affidavit, Clarke was the passenger in a black Nissan Maxima that pulled up to the Quick Stop. — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 2 Sep. 2026 The shooting occurred when a white Cadillac pulled up next to them at a red light and opened fire — hitting Shakur in the arm, thigh and twice in the chest. — Lynsey Eidell, PEOPLE, 1 Sep. 2026 He is accused of being in the Cadillac that pulled up alongside Shakur’s car and handing the gun to two men in the back seat, one of whom was his nephew, who fired the fatal shots. — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026 Well past midnight one day this spring, three police officers pulled up to a nightclub where a man was stomping on a young woman lying on the sidewalk. — Brad Heath, USA Today, 19 Aug. 2026 Brodeur coincidentally pulled up the actual weeds on the property June 19, just before Dantona received the first non-compliance notice. — Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 18 Aug. 2026 Martin then pulled up old video of Bregman from his 2016 season at Double-A Corpus Christi to highlight where the third baseman mechanically wants to be. — Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2026

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The first leg was stopped after Vinicius Junior said he had been racially abused by Benfica’s Gianluca Prestianni, who denied the allegation.

— Dermot Corrigan, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
British driver Ollie Millroy thanked rival Loek Hartog for saving his life after the Dutch racer stopped and pulled him from a burning Ferrari during a China GT Championship race in Shanghai on Saturday.

— Reuters, NBC news, 7 Sep. 2026

Definition of stopped

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This wider story spans five centuries from the first enslavement of the Caribbean Lucayan and Taíno in 1492 to the Indian Child Welfare Act in 1978, which slowly halted the stealing of tens of thousands of Native children through adoptions.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2026
Unifor, the Canadian auto union, has halted contract talks with Stellantis.

— Liam Rappleye, Freep.com, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of halted

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Ongoing litigation stalled the project and Lucas next looked to San Francisco’s Treasure Island, where the city asked for roughly $26 million for a 4-acre site (an amount considered by some to be above market value).

— Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026
That assessment shows which teams are getting real results and should be scaled, and which use cases are stalled because the process is broken.

— Andrew Antos, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of stalled

Verb

Ancelotti, though, could have spent the past four weeks in Europe and still barely caught a glance of Estevao Willian, Brazil’s would-be attacking talisman.

— Jack Lang, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
In this ⁠year’s hunting season, which runs from ⁠June to around the end of September, 80 fin whales had been caught as of Wednesday, according to ⁠Humane World for Animals, an animal welfare group that tracks the ⁠catches.

— Reuters, NBC news, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of caught

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Using hydraulic modeling, MMSD determined that about 400 properties would have faced an elevated risk of basement backups even if the pipe had been open during April’s weeklong storms, which brought up to 9 inches of rain.

— Caitlin Looby, jsonline.com, 10 Sep. 2026
Things fell apart between Teagan and Cam at Fall Formal when financial aid was brought up, and Cam decided to break things off with Teagan.

— Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of brought up

Verb

Gajdusek eventually drew up a list of eight students, and then decided on the youngest child, a twelve-year-old boy.

— Rachel Aviv, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026
Rudi Garcia then arguably drew up the game plan of the tournament, leaving Lukaku, Kevin De Bruyne and Jeremy Doku out of his starting XI and still managing to humiliate the hosts.

— Adam Crafton, New York Times, 20 July 2026

Definition of drew up

Verb

Dasha Ramírez, now 9, still remembers the day armed, uniformed Border Patrol agents arrested her family, her mother, Noemi Chavez, told the Tribune.

— Andrew Carter, Chicago Tribune, 6 Sep. 2026
Federal authorities have arrested and sought to deport pro-Palestinian activists, actions that judges have deemed a First Amendment violation.

— BrieAnna J. Frank, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2026

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