souping up

present participle of soup up

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for souping up
Verb
  • Even with that, policymakers must continue evaluating whether survivor benefits adequately reflect the long-term economic realities facing military families, while improving coordination and accessibility across programs.
    Cristina Johnson, Hartford Courant, 16 Sep. 2026
  • In some cases, this may also require modernizing legacy systems or improving integration between existing manufacturing and IT platforms.
    Nishkam Batta, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • An English springer spaniel in Alabama loves nothing more than spending her whole day in the pool and has taken to tricking her parents into letting her into the pool every day.
    Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2026
  • In many cases, the robot tail wags the living dog by tricking it—tricking us—into caring about obscure metrics, then gamifying the process of improving them.
    Hillary Busis, Vanity Fair, 28 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Juxtaposing her bleach blond bedhead, Anderson kept her faded brown brows pencil thin (think super skinny ’90s brows), framing her eyes like an arch and embellishing her naked lids.
    Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 9 Sep. 2026
  • This week, the retailer shared an Instagram video showing a woman applying a Biodance face mask before embellishing the product with colorful plastic gems.
    Sarah Glodek, Fortune, 28 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Skau warned that as attention turns towards ameliorating the security crisis, resources should not be taken away from addressing the surging humanitarian needs, which include more than 5 million people who do not have enough to eat.
    Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 4 June 2026
  • Taking control of the narrative is the first step to ameliorating the damage.
    David Rivera, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Apr. 2026
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“Souping up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/souping%20up. Accessed 22 Sep. 2026.

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