RACKED UP Synonyms: 48 Similar and Opposite Words

racked up

verb

past tense of rack up

as in scored

to gain (as points or runs in a game) as credit towards one's total number of points having racked up a huge number of points in the short program, the figure skater would have to have a disastrous long program in order to miss out on a medal

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lost

as in achieved

to obtain (as a goal) through effort racked up their second consecutive Super Bowl victory

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Recent Examples of racked up Taylor racked up 360 yards and three touchdowns as the leader of Jeff Lebby’s veer-and-shoot offense. — Pj Green september 27, Kansas City Star, 27 Sep. 2026 Chalk racked up 159 rushing yards, his fifth straight game over 100, and scored twice on the ground. — ABC News, 26 Sep. 2026 The city racked up 53 traffic deaths in 2025, the highest in a decade, and 32 bike/pedestrian and e-scooter deaths. — Barbara Kingsley-Wilson, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026 In 2024, the brand launched Get Ready With Music, The Album, a compilation that racked up views and streams in record numbers across Spotify and YouTube. — Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2026 The Bears racked up yards and points, putting up 59 points on the Panthers. — Outkick, FOXNews.com, 20 Sep. 2026 Wideout Lucius Anderson racked up 155 yards of his own on nine catches. — Kels Dayton, Hartford Courant, 19 Sep. 2026 Jaxon Smith-Njigba racked up the eighth-most receiving yards in a single season in NFL history (1,793) last season, winning Offensive Player of the Year. — Andrew Destin, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026 Memphis racked up an impressive 983 yards of offense across those two games, including 335 yards on the ground against Arkansas State. — Idaho Statesman, 8 Sep. 2026

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Cregger then cast him as the lead of his Resident Evil reboot, which has now scored the franchise’s best reviews and highest-grossing opening weekend, taking in $60 million across its first three days.

— Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 21 Sep. 2026
Seven days later, the same Panthers held the Falcons to three points, a total that rates in the latter franchise’s lowest sixth percentile for points scored in a regular-season game, also according to Stathead.

— Ken Sugiura, AJC.com, 21 Sep. 2026

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While spacecraft-to-spacecraft cryogenic refuelling is yet to be achieved, the ability to refuel storable chemical propellant is still a game-changer.

— Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 27 Sep. 2026
Mid-round, golfers head to the Halfway House for burger dogs and fish tacos, and the Links Margarita has apparently achieved something close to cult status among regulars.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of achieved

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The next year, women won equal right to credit cards and mortgages.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2026
Both Davis and Washington were nominated for Academy Awards as actors — Davis won an Oscar trophy for best supporting actress — and the film earned a best picture nomination.

— Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of won

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In this new culture, freedom was attained not through engagement in political struggle but through individual consumer choices.

— Robert Rubsam, New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2026
The Tennessee singer-songwriter, actor, and philanthropist hailed from a vanishing class, a 20th-century monocultural phenomenon who attained a household-name status that never lost its luster.

— Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2026

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The state AGs and the WGA filed suit in July after federal regulators had approved the deal, and gained surprising traction in a series of early court rulings, giving opponents of the merger hope it would be curtailed or even fully blocked.

— Dade Hayes, Deadline, 21 Sep. 2026
Google said on Friday that its Gemini model had hacked three other companies back in May, the first time the search giant has disclosed that one of its models autonomously gained access to third-party computer systems without permission.

— Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of gained

Verb

The next day, Leigh made one last desperate attempt to get her things.

— Josephine Reisman, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2026
Osubor, who also stars, made the film under the mentorship of 90s indie film stalwart Alexandre Rockwell (In the Soup) follows an ambitious flower-delivery driver (Osubor) who gets drawn into the orbit of a powerful local figure called Big Daddy.

— Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 23 Sep. 2026

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