pumping up

present participle of pump up
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Recent Examples of pumping up August 20, 2025 – Bryan Danielson pumping up the crowd on AEW Dynamite. Jeremy Hanna, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025 Even the normally surefire element of a score by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, with its blasts of dissonance pumping up the squirm factor, adds to the heavy-going effect of a movie that seems to go out of its way to be grating. David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 29 Aug. 2025 The company started pumping up its website during the pandemic when people were not shopping stores. David Moin, Footwear News, 27 Aug. 2025 Investors tend to be kind to players that are pumping up their portfolios. Diane Brady, Fortune, 20 Aug. 2025 Trump’s tariffs hammered activity in the first quarter by pumping up imports (which are subtracted from growth) as retailers and manufacturers stocked up on foreign goods to avoid the imminent levies. Paul Davidson, USA Today, 28 Mar. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pumping up
Verb
  • The natural world is thrilling Dan Sheehan this week.
    Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Advertisement Wayward is equal parts thrilling and devastating, especially considering the very real industry that inspired the show.
    Erin McMullen, Time, 25 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Then there are additional fines for selling alcohol illegally to underage individuals, with increasing amounts, based on the number of offenses.
    Sophie Carson, jsonline.com, 27 Sep. 2025
  • An increasing threat of heavy rainfall from this system is forecast over the southern Mid-Atlantic through coastal Georgia which could cause flash, urban, and river flooding into next week.
    MIAMI HERALD HURRICANE BOT, Miami Herald, 27 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Advocates say governments can enhance housing affordability by expanding housing vouchers and enacting stronger tenant protections.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Moving away from YouTube, Yang has his sights set on expanding his talents as a writer, director and storyteller.
    Meredith Wilshere, PEOPLE, 27 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The game could be categorized as a slugfest that showed both teams matching punch for punch, with Bishop Feehan (3-1) turning on the gas late and pulling away for the victory.
    Erik Anderson, Boston Herald, 27 Sep. 2025
  • These cost-efficient facilities can come online more quickly, one at a time, while construction goes on, turning on revenue streams faster, Sabel said.
    Jordan Blum, Fortune, 25 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Climate scientist Johan Rockström, speaking at a science briefing that opened the summit, warned that warming appears to be accelerating.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 25 Sep. 2025
  • This wave of recognitions will likely increase anti-Israel sentiment globally, accelerating divestments and boycotts.
    SHIRA EFRON, Foreign Affairs, 23 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In the book, readers hear from many of golf’s biggest names — Tiger’s caddie, his coach, his opponents, his idols, and others, all offering fresh insight into the electrifying highs of his victories and the obstacles on and off the course that threatened his relentless pursuit of perfection.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The ukulele virtuoso returns for another electrifying performance.
    Jake Richardson, Mercury News, 22 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • With leaders at November’s COP30 set to focus on boosting implementation of promises made in the past, experts say companies need to be in the conversation now.
    Simon Jessop, Reuters, 21 Sep. 2025
  • The California Legislature recently passed another major bill to spur development in an effort to tame the cost of housing by boosting supply.
    Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • For retailers, this evolution is less about replacing human judgment and more about augmenting it with capabilities that can process complexity at a scale and speed humans can't match.
    Charisma Glassman, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • That product was built from the ground up around AI and was possible only because of AI, as opposed to augmenting an existing product with AI.
    Sage Lazzaro, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2025

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“Pumping up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pumping%20up. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.

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