pupped

past tense of pup

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for pupped
Verb
  • Hearing his wife recall painful memories due to the family feud kindled a recent memory for Todd, too — an angry one.
    Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • Seniors are often seeking to educate themselves and maintain independence, which may lead them to inaccurate or misleading medical information generated by AI.
    Suzi Morales, Parents, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Winnie-the-Pooh is one of the most beloved and commercially successful properties in the world, having generated over $80 billion in retail sales.
    Melinda Newman, Billboard, 25 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Musk, the founder of Tesla and SpaceX, has fathered 14 children in total.
    Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The exes share four kids — daughters Katherine and Christina and sons Patrick and Christopher — while Schwarzenegger also fathered son Joseph Baena with former housekeeper Mildred Patricia Baena.
    Jack Smart, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • 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
  • The brother lions sired several cubs over their long reign at the zoo.
    Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Two years after its premiere, the film spawned a Hulu sequel series, Love, Victor, that followed another student at the same suburban Atlanta high school featured in the film.
    Mathew Rodriguez, Them., 25 Sep. 2025
  • The virality of the prank even spawned a recent collaboration with Anthropologie.
    Amaris Encinas, USA Today, 25 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Continuity, and a drive to achieve what had slipped away in last year’s finals loss to the New York Liberty, bred a historic season — a Lynx franchise-record 34 wins and a team that led the league in offensive and defensive ratings.
    Ben Pickman, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • If so, look for varieties adapted to or bred for hotter, more humid weather.
    Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Metroid and Castlevania begot the Metroidvania; hell, today, practically every game of any high difficulty gets roped in with soulslikes (referencing Dark Souls).
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The Indian Adoption Program which begat the Indian Child Welfare Act.
    Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Using pure well water, wild yeasts (some propagated from its own fruit trees and beehives), local and heirloom grains, hops, and fruits, and house sour cultures, the brewery creates, ages, blends and bottles unique, small-batch beers exhibiting the wildness of Oregon terroir.
    Ben Davidson Correspondent, Oc Register, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Boom, that prevents the true underlying disorder of being delusional from being propagated by the AI.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
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“Pupped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pupped. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.

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