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Recent Examples of soup up
Warm a batch of this creamy soup up on a chilly night and pop in a few biscuits to finish the meal.
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Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 11 Feb. 2026
Under his meticulous care, the gleaming red sports car has been souped up to generate 400-horsepower turbo performance, but retains much of the original features and feel.
—Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 7 Feb. 2026
Read on to learn exactly how to soup up that morning shot.
—Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 9 Dec. 2025
The series chronicled Sparks, Kiley, Hoskins, and Stuart repairing and souping up pickup trucks.
—Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Oct. 2025
Roku 65-inch Pro Series TV for $600 ($200 off): Roku souped up its Pro Series for 2025, adding even better brightness and contrast to the world’s simplest interface.
—Simon Hill, Wired News, 8 Oct. 2025
A lot of utility can come from souping up your Camry, but no amount of tweaking will turn it into a Ferrari.
—Cal Newport, New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2025
There’s owner Joe Ghattas, a former car dealer who over 10 years turned a side hustle souping up Jeeps into a multimillion-dollar business headquartered in a $10.7 million plant near the corner of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Powerline Road.
—Ron Hurtibise, Sun Sentinel, 9 Aug. 2025
Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 11 Feb. 2026
Under his meticulous care, the gleaming red sports car has been souped up to generate 400-horsepower turbo performance, but retains much of the original features and feel.
—Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 7 Feb. 2026
Read on to learn exactly how to soup up that morning shot.
—Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 9 Dec. 2025
The series chronicled Sparks, Kiley, Hoskins, and Stuart repairing and souping up pickup trucks.
—Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Oct. 2025
Roku 65-inch Pro Series TV for $600 ($200 off): Roku souped up its Pro Series for 2025, adding even better brightness and contrast to the world’s simplest interface.
—Simon Hill, Wired News, 8 Oct. 2025
A lot of utility can come from souping up your Camry, but no amount of tweaking will turn it into a Ferrari.
—Cal Newport, New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2025
There’s owner Joe Ghattas, a former car dealer who over 10 years turned a side hustle souping up Jeeps into a multimillion-dollar business headquartered in a $10.7 million plant near the corner of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Powerline Road.
—Ron Hurtibise, Sun Sentinel, 9 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for soup up
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In December, McCarron appeared to embellish a slash by Zuccarello.—
Michael Russo,
New York Times,
6 Mar. 2026
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Pfeiffer stuck to a pearl theme for premiere night and wore a mid-length black Oscar de la Renta dress, fully embellished with pearls.—
Janelle Ash,
FOXNews.com,
4 Mar. 2026
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Approach improves transparency and trust in autonomous systems Similar to the flight data recorders used in aircraft, the system continuously logs information about the drone’s performance.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Mar. 2026
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Any efforts to improve your living space may need to be run by other people, like a roommate or landlord.—
Tarot.com,
The Orlando Sentinel,
9 Mar. 2026
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But savvy marketing campaigns and partnerships with major employers have tricked consumers into turning back to payday loans.—
Christopher Greenwood,
Chicago Tribune,
13 Mar. 2026
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Each filing season brings new tactics designed to trick taxpayers into revealing personal information or claiming refunds they are not entitled to receive.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
12 Mar. 2026
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There’s a ballooning opportunity globally for developers to tap into this market and ameliorate that disconnect.—
Catherine Thorbecke,
Twin Cities,
31 Jan. 2026
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Tulsa Mayor Monroe Nichols proposed a $105 million private trust, called Road to Repair, aimed at ameliorating the long-term damage of the massacre through scholarships, housing, and general reinvestment in Tulsa’s Greenwood district.—
Caleb Gayle,
The Atlantic,
28 Jan. 2026
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