pupped

Definition of puppednext
past tense of pup

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for pupped
Verb
  • When Curt Cignetti was hired just more than two years ago, it was considered a smart move by the athletic department, but no one kidded themselves that Indiana was some sort of raucous fan sleeper cell just waiting to be activated.
    Will Leitch, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • Watson had kindled a social media friendship with the NBA star and received an invite to one of his exclusive pickup runs.
    Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 14 Jan. 2026
  • This is only slightly challenged by a flame kindled between Mindy and Alfie (Lucien Laviscount) earlier on in the show.
    Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 5 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • Amber*, a digital marketing manager for a restaurant group, generated several million dollars in revenue through online promotions her first two years on the job.
    Chris Lipp, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Yet the primary data required for compliance—fiber origin, material composition, chemical inputs—are generated and held upstream by suppliers and processors.
    Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 28 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • Nonetheless, none fathered children, meaning Hitler’s bloodline will indeed definitively end after this generation.
    Rosemary Counter, Vanity Fair, 19 Jan. 2026
  • Long Lance’s maternal grandfather was a North Carolina state senator who visited Carson’s plantation often and fathered Sallie and another child with Adeline.
    David Treuer, The Atlantic, 13 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • Kiko sired two calves, with a third due early this year.
    Erin Clements, PEOPLE, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Bowie recently sired a calf there, making Fort Worth Zoo elephant matriarch Rasha a great-grandmother.
    Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The arXiv, as the server came to be called, grew quickly, and spawned sister sites in other disciplines.
    Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 22 Jan. 2026
  • The approach has spawned lots of innovation, the most famous being the development of ubiquitous Post-It Notes, the colorful pads of paper with restickable strips on the back that adhere to virtually any surface.
    Kate Vitasek, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • Raw celtuce, a lettuce cultivar bred for its sweet stem rather than for its leaves, is cut into neat rectangles of a luminous parakeet green, interleaved with strips of jiggly kombu jelly, and plated atop a vermillion pool of Yongchun red vinegar.
    Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2026
  • When vegan eating becomes more mainstream, fewer animals will be bred for food, lessening the threat of a life-threatening outbreak and nationwide pandemic.
    Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 30 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • Normally, the automaker’s grand tourers’ alphanumeric names jump by twos between generations; the DB7 begat the DB9, which begat the DB11.
    Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 29 Jan. 2026
  • What makes the exhibit work is its new perspective on a loathsome period of world history, one in which the resulting artworks aren’t allowed to suffer just because of the corporate culture that begat them.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 18 Jan. 2026
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“Pupped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pupped. Accessed 4 Feb. 2026.

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