pupped

past tense of pup

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for pupped
Verb
  • Anhedönia’s earliest exposure to contemporary culture came in the form of the true-crime serials her grandmother loved, which kindled her own interest in the macabre.
    Holden Seidlitz, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Currently, only 37% of the more than 5 million tons of trash generated in the county each year is recycled — and even that is hampered by a 40% contamination rate.
    Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2025
  • If he had been sold for between £10m and £20m, that alone would have generated significantly more PSR headroom.
    Beren Cross, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Owens, the 35-year-old daughter of longtime San Francisco radio host Ronn Owens, filed a paternity petition in Maricopa County Superior Court in August 2023, alleging Echard fathered twins during a one-night encounter.
    Miguel Torres, AZCentral.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Musk is believed to have fathered at least 14 children with four women.
    Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 19 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The brother lions sired several cubs over their long reign at the zoo.
    Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Iraq became proof that the model would work across the region, with Hezbollah serially midwifing the proxies that Iran sired.
    Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The history of trade associations in the United States is deeply connected to the evolution of American business, especially intertwined with the impact of an industrializing economy and the array of regulations those industries spawned.
    Eric Reicin, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Survivor’s debut in 2000 marked a turning point in reality television innovation; afterward, many copycats spawned, inspired by the complexity of the gameplay.
    Hannah Berman August 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Labradors are often more energetic and bred for hunting, retrieving, and service work, whereas goldens are prized for their patience, friendliness, and trainability.
    Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025
  • That is to say, more chickens are bred and butchered each year than there are alive at this very moment in time.
    Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The Indian Adoption Program which begat the Indian Child Welfare Act.
    Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Boom, that prevents the true underlying disorder of being delusional from being propagated by the AI.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • But Kennedy has already propagated an insidious revolution within the agencies under his control, using a playbook familiar to illiberal leaders—culling expertise, silencing critics, and weaponizing administrative procedure to grant a veneer of legitimacy to his actions.
    Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2025
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“Pupped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pupped. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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