PULLED (UP) Synonyms: 68 Similar and Opposite Words

pulled up

verb

Definition of pulled up next

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 Just as the protest was ending, Muhammad said, the school’s head of security pulled up to speak with Jennifer Marien, the principal or director of the upper school, who had been watching the protest alongside Muhammad. —

Eric Adler may 14, Kansas City Star, 14 May 2026 Police said Cho was driving Johnson when a car pulled up alongside them and someone inside opened fire, then took off. —

Sara Tenenbaum, CBS News, 14 May 2026 While Vanegas watched a Bobcat excavator swing at her home Tuesday, a car full of people from Indiana pulled up behind her and began scavenging for aluminum in the wreckage of homes. —

Addison Wright, Chicago Tribune, 13 May 2026 According to initial police reports, the boy was outside when a car pulled up and a man got out, pointed a gun at the youth and demanded his property, which included a scooter and cell phone. —

Harry Harris, Mercury News, 7 May 2026 Most notably, the crafty Brunson got Embiid in isolation, used some fancy footwork to get the big man turned around, then pulled up for a second-quarter jumper that gave the Knicks a 59-42 lead. —

Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 5 May 2026 Then there’s Dwyane Wade and Gabrielle Union, who pulled up side by side in fashion-forward statement pieces and oozing sexy. —

Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 5 May 2026 Karissa Waddick The crowd cheered as the king’s black BMW pulled up on the street in Front Royal, Virginia. —

Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2026 Prosecutors believe that Davis was in the white Cadillac that pulled up next to Shakur’s car on September 7, 1996, near the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, and hit him four times with gunfire. —

Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 29 Apr. 2026

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Can the textpocalypse be stopped?

— Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
Otherwise, the Canadiens were stopped on their first shot and scored on their next three in Game 6; the Sabres were stopped on their first shot and scored on three straight against Jakub Dobeš in Game 5.

— Matthew Fairburn, New York Times, 17 May 2026