PULLS IN Synonyms: 98 Similar and Opposite Words

pulls in

verb

present tense third-person singular of pull in

as in contains

to keep from exceeding a desirable degree or level (as of expression) a company that cannot manage to pull in costs will not be in business for very long

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as in arrests

to take or keep under one's control by authority of law he was pulled in after a random traffic stop turned up drugs in his car

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Recent Examples of pulls in Just as a musical uses songs to communicate plot and emotional moments, dance theater pulls in ballet and jazz and hip-hop and tap and acrobatics all as different narrative tools. —

Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 5 Mar. 2026 For years, astronomers have debated whether planets this massive could form through core accretion, the slow, bottom-up process in which solid material clumps together into a dense core that then pulls in vast amounts of gas. —

Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 10 Feb. 2026 For afternoon tea and old-world fine dining with a jazz soundtrack, The Estate House veranda pulls in a warm breeze, and dishes such as lobster and ravioli, and mushroom and truffle velouté with brioche strips wrapped in Italian lardo are served on antique crockery. —

Rosalyn Wikeley, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Jan. 2026 The public advocate pulls in about $184,000 and the comptroller earns roughly $210,000. —

Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 7 Jan. 2026 In 2025, the four tournaments paid out over $285 million between them, while their leaders spent the year shadowboxing with the players who make their events unmissable, whose gravity pulls in the broadcast deals and sponsorships, with their own dollar signs and zeroes. —

Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2026 Today, Pamukkale and the ancient city of Hierapolis, which sprawls across the plateau above the white terraces, are part of a UNESCO World Heritage site that pulls in busloads of visitors. —

Barry Neild, CNN Money, 27 Oct. 2025 Cloudastructure’s system, by contrast, uses Artificial Intelligence to watch every camera at once and only pulls in a human guard when there is a reason to pay attention. —

Sixteen Ramos, USA Today, 15 Sep. 2025 Another is the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM), which pulls in more data about household resources and cost of living. —

Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 12 Sep. 2025

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Dark red markings on a gray panel, meanwhile, typically indicate that the ammunition contains an irritant or riot-control agent.

— Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 8 Mar. 2026
Her Amazon cart contains the ageless, expensive-looking building blocks of any cool girl’s closet.

— Annie Blackman, InStyle, 8 Mar. 2026