PUTTING UP Synonyms: 208 Similar and Opposite Words

putting up

verb

present participle of put up

as in erecting

to fix in an upright position the builders put up the walls before starting on the roof

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as in building

to form by putting together parts or materials plans to put up a pavilion in the public gardens

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as in selling

to offer for sale to the public put their possessions up for auction

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as in housing

to provide with living quarters or shelter the university puts up students in a variety of buildings

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as in plotting

to engage in a secret plan to accomplish evil or unlawful ends put up an elaborate scheme to defraud insurance companies

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as in storing

to place somewhere for safekeeping or ready availability I need to clear out a space in the garage to put up my motorcycle for the winter

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Recent Examples of putting up The head of Customs and Border Protection, Rodney Scott, has said the agency is putting up 6 miles (10 kilometers) of wall a week. — ABC News, 22 July 2026 Goodall will be in Saudi Arabia this week putting up the ring for Joshua’s fight. — Chris McKenna, New York Times, 22 July 2026 Alaina Mencinger Republican challenger Ralph Heap is putting up a fight for one of two Arizona Corporation Commission seats currently held by incumbents Nick Myers and Kevin Thompson. — Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 21 July 2026 The Hawks downed the Celtics 102-90, putting up their most well-rounded offensive outing. — Lauren Williams, AJC.com, 14 July 2026 The game was the opposite as the first with the offenses putting up points. — Cal Phillips july 13, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 July 2026 Sutton, a rookie forward who went undrafted out of LSU, continued to impress after putting up 16 points and seven rebounds in Sunday’s win over Golden State Warriors Blue. — Jason Anderson, Sacbee.com, 7 July 2026 Unlike many of his second-year predecessors, Richard is not putting up stats by dominating the ball and using moves that would only work against unseasoned rookies or future European league all-stars. — Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 7 July 2026 The companies building them are putting up hundreds simultaneously, in places the grid was never designed to reach, on timelines that utility companies, with their seven year queues for new connections, simply can’t comprehend. — Vinod Khosla, Fortune, 30 June 2026

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Atsushi Matono is responsible for erecting the shingi, a sacred tree placed at the top of one of the floats —the holiest part of the structure, to which a deity is believed to descend.

— ABC News, ABC News, 19 July 2026
New this year will be an enormous 20-foot tipi, as well as a demonstration area revealing the process of erecting tipi’s step-by-step.

— Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026

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Nasdaq has separately pushed regulators toward near-continuous trading hours, and the NYSE is building dedicated infrastructure meant to support activity around the clock.

— Mike Cahill, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
The next few years will show whether the space industry really leaves disposable satellites behind and starts building them to be caught and repaired, or simply gets neater about throwing them away, designing them to burn up on the way down.

— Wanjiku Chebet Kanjumba, The Conversation, 22 July 2026

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And while there are still comic artists and writers at small tables signing and sketching, and dealers selling original art out of binders in crates, a good chunk of the space is occupied by media and toy companies, trying to outdo one another.

— Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 24 July 2026
My last job happened to be as a door-to-door salesman selling welcome mats.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 July 2026

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Esquire is one of only a handful of theaters housing the Grand Theatre projector that can roll through the film.

— Tania Azhang, Sacbee.com, 18 July 2026
The interior resembles a personal library, with shelves housing the brand’s chains, Foundation collection and 10 tenets alongside rows of books.

— Thomas Waller, Footwear News, 17 July 2026

Definition of housing

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AutoCaptain uses six stereo cameras and NVIDIA processing for 360-degree environmental understanding, plotting paths and avoiding obstacles via computer vision and machine learning.

— Ed Garsten, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
When this happens, Telemachus realizes that the beggar is really his father, and the father-son duo reunite in full and begin plotting revenge against the suitors.

— Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 17 July 2026

Definition of plotting

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Minimalists tend to focus on habits that are easy to maintain over time, like choosing movement that doesn’t require storing or managing additional equipment.

— Angelika Pokovba, Martha Stewart, 19 July 2026
To avoid this, always carefully inspect items for damage before storing them with other items.

— Kamron Sanders, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 July 2026

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Jackson would also need to scramble to make up a fundraising gulf against Collins, who has been raising money for months.

— ABC News, ABC News, 25 July 2026
In Canada, public health messaging has focused on raising awareness among adolescents and their caregivers after 2026 reports that the challenge resurfaced among youth.

— Andrew Yockey, The Conversation, 24 July 2026

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To replace them, Russia is constructing the Leningrad-II nuclear facility at a neighboring site, which will house four VVER-1200 units, with the aim of supplying power till the 2080s, and possibly another two decades with extensions.

— Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 16 July 2026
But SpaceX has plowed ahead, constructing a launchpad and other infrastructure to host Starships.

— Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 16 July 2026