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Recent Examples of puller
Pull larger crabgrass after a rain, and use a dandelion puller to loosen it up from below.
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Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Aug. 2025
Meanwhile, a padded nylon upper provides insulation while an adjustable puller lacing system enhances comfort and convenience.
—Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Aug. 2025
Meanwhile, a padded nylon upper provides insulation while an adjustable puller lacing system enhances comfort and convenience.
—Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for puller
Noun
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Small crafts include owners of small to medium sized motor and sail boats, affecting fisherman, para-sailors, windsurfers and canoe paddlers.—
Sarah Moore,
Freep.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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San Nicolas Island is equipped with two launchers that can fire four targets simultaneously, allowing sailors to train against multiple incoming threats.—
Ryan Chan,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Her character, the increasingly panicked Nostromo navigator Joan Lambert, can’t claim the same renown that Weaver’s heroic Ellen Ripley inspired, but Lambert maintains an unimpeachable place in the genre canon nonetheless.—
Matthew Jacobs,
Vulture,
26 Aug. 2025
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John was a navigator on a B-17, flying 6 missions before being killed on April 18, 1944, when German fighters attacked his squadron.—
Hank Beckman,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Meth and fentanyl from a swab on the couch.—
Laura Bauer,
Kansas City Star,
7 Sep. 2025
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In the wound care section, a selection of bandages, dressings, and medical tape, along with antiseptic wipes, alcohol swabs, triple antibiotic ointment, and two manuals (one for dogs and one for people) is available.—
Olivia Young,
Travel + Leisure,
2 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Aside from a single oar found the following day, there was no sign of Wade.—
Bjorn Dihle,
Outdoor Life,
4 Sep. 2025
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This design allows the appendages to fan out underwater, so they can be used like an oar.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
25 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Too much salt makes your body pump more blood and tightens vessels, while alcohol causes inflammation and puts stress on your body.—
Sherri Gordon,
Health,
29 Aug. 2025
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The tequila daisy cocktail, served in a clay cantarito cup smudged with sumac salt, is piquant with ancho verde, mellowed with summer strawberry.—
Rachel Bernhard,
jsonline.com,
29 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The products of pyrolysis are biochar, the carbon skeleton of the organic matter, gases such as carbon monoxide, hydrogen, and methane, and liquids that, if not condensed into a biofuel, form a sticky tar that can foul equipment.—
Erik Kobayashi-Solomon,
Forbes.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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The warm and wet conditions that fueled crop growth also fostered fungal diseases such as tar spot, southern rust and northern blight in corn, and sudden death syndrome in soybeans.—
Reuters,
NBC news,
23 Aug. 2025
Noun
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In 1944, Willie Wesley Thompson, a Navy seaman, saved two lives in the South Pacific.—
Curtis Bunn,
NBC news,
27 Aug. 2025
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In actor-writer-director Ustinov’s tackling of Herman Melville’s seafaring 18th-century novel, the young stage actor starred as the titular naïve young seaman who suffers under the sadistic whims of his superior Claggart (Robert Ryan) and is eventually falsely accused of a crime.—
Christina Newland,
Vulture,
22 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The Collegeville outfit came with the mask of a scowling pirate with an open eye-patch that looked more like a black eye and a sickly green pallor that would shiver the timbers of the saltiest sea dog.—
René Guzman,
San Antonio Express-News,
2 Oct. 2024
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Under the black flag Overall, around 4,000 sea dogs plagued the world’s sea lanes during the golden age of piracy.—
Sean Kingsley,
Smithsonian Magazine,
15 May 2024
Cite this Entry
“Puller.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/puller. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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