shut (in or up)

verb

Definition of shut (in or up)next
as in to bottle (up)

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  1. restrain
  2. contain
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  • The main thing stock folks are worried about – the voracious consumption and headlong deployment of capital for AI – is now the thing lifting rates and potentially restraining growth elsewhere.
    — Michael Santoli, CNBC, 24 Aug. 2026
  • Cameramen raced around hectically setting up lights and checking shots as choreographers ran through fight sequences and a prop team worked out how to hoist a net that would later restrain a hostage.
    — Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2026
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  • The filing says a witness reported seeing a gray GMC Denali towing a box trailer containing people, including children.
    — Christina Coulter, PEOPLE, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Hugging Face’s, meanwhile, is a few pages shorter but contains specific lines of code and evidence from its systems about what happened.
    — Emily Forlini, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2026
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“Shut (in or up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shut%20%28in%20or%20up%29. Accessed 29 Aug. 2026.

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