pulls up

present tense third-person singular of pull up

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of pulls up Plenty of thought clearly also went into creating the right ambience from the moment the team bus pulls up behind the West Stand judging by the different lighting and imagery used to shift the mood as the players pass through the bowels of the arena. Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025 The police vehicle pulls up directly behind a fleeing vehicle with the arms of the device reaching under the fleeing vehicle. Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 29 Aug. 2025 Angler expecting a fish pulls up rare 700-year-old sword instead. FOXNews.com, 7 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pulls up
Verb
  • When policy, innovation, and business insight align, CCU stops being a piece of green rhetoric and becomes good business.
    Peter Bendor-Samuel, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The buck stops with the humans.
    Big Think, Big Think, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Antihydra almost certainly never halts.
    Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 22 Aug. 2025
  • More than 50 Democratic lawmakers fled the state earlier this week, a decision that halts action on redistricting, as well as other bills in the legislature.
    Elizabeth Robinson, NBC news, 8 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Alphonse Pierre’s Off the Dome column covers songs, mixtapes, albums, scenes, snippets, movies, Meek Mill tweets, fashion trends—and anything else that catches his attention.
    Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The center beam shows color and detail clearly, while the outer glow only catches movement.
    Big Think, Big Think, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Which brings up an interesting dilemma in the three-game preseason slate.
    Sam McDowell August 9, Kansas City Star, 9 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Battery life holds up for long commutes, and Android users get the bonus of LDAC streaming.
    Shubham Yewale, PC Magazine, 12 Sep. 2025
  • In practice, standardization rarely holds up.
    Kathleen Hurley, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • But if inflation stays elevated and the Fed holds—or lifts—rates to fight it, those future cash flows get discounted at a higher rate, shrinking today’s value.
    Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Naturally, over-the-air updates will continue to be rolled out to ensure the EV stays at the bleeding edge.
    Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • But in the late 1970s, researchers began to learn that the drugs helped flood the brain with gamma-aminobutyric acid, or GABA, which in essence blocks your nervous system from receiving too many activation signals.
    P.E. Moskowitz September 11, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The anti-blue lens blocks 90% of blue light and protects your eyes from electronics and everyday life.
    Jacquelyn Smith, Parents, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Several of the large mutual fund companies tell their customers that checks from their IRA account going to qualifying charities will qualify as QCDs, whether the checks are written by the company to the charity or by the individual to the charity.
    Liz Weston, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Vance and Hawley have proposed increasing the federal minimum wage tied to mandatory employer use of E-Verify, an online system that checks immigration status.
    Richard McGahey, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025

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“Pulls up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pulls%20up. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.

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