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Recent Examples of stick up
William Earl, Variety, 24 Apr. 2025
The real issue is that people just don’t stick up for Spurs in the media.
—Tim Spiers, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2025
That complaint could be leveled at the inciting incident, too, a stickup attempt to snatch Miccelli’s kickbacks that ends with Rory and Cobby on the run.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 1 Aug. 2024
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Verb
George Clooney recently stuck up for himself against Megyn Kelly, but the former Fox News anchor did not take his criticism lightly.
—William Earl, Variety, 24 Apr. 2025
The real issue is that people just don’t stick up for Spurs in the media.
—Tim Spiers, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
Noun
The numbers showed an increase in stickups — if only on paper.
—Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2025
That complaint could be leveled at the inciting incident, too, a stickup attempt to snatch Miccelli’s kickbacks that ends with Rory and Cobby on the run.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 1 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stick up
Verb
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Menzies was convicted of the 1986 murder of 26-year-old Maurine Hunsaker, a married mother of three who was kidnapped, robbed, strangled, and found tied to a tree with her throat slit.—
Amanda Lee Myers,
USA Today,
11 July 2025
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Three years later, Armando Galarraga didn’t, robbed by a wrong call by first-base umpire Jim Joyce — who owned up to it almost immediately — in the days before instant replay.—
Ryan Ford,
Freep.com,
11 July 2025
Noun
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Patrick Agyemang got the start at striker and was able to provide good holdup play and off-ball movement, but struggled to threaten Costa Rica’s defense with scoring opportunities.—
Jeff Rueter,
New York Times,
30 June 2025
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To help travelers avoid traffic holdups, AAA teamed up with S&P Global Market Intelligence and put together a handy guide laying out the best and worst times to hit the road.—
Melissa Locker,
Southern Living,
27 June 2025
Verb
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The platform is also notorious for quietly disenfranchising artists, by letting people rip off their original work to feed those Frankensteins.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
18 July 2025
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Much of the discussion about generative AI in TV and film centers on the potential to undermine creativity and jobs, and rip off intellectual property.—
Scharon Harding,
ArsTechnica,
18 July 2025
Noun
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Gandhi said that the 911 caller had said that a neighbor had asked them to call after seeing a burglary with at least two armed individuals.—
Ethan Wolin,
Sacbee.com,
17 July 2025
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The burglary is the latest in a series of thefts from the homes of high-profile athletes acoross the country this year.—
David Brandt,
Chicago Tribune,
17 July 2025
Verb
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On July 10, air traffic control cleared the Delta Airbus A321, which can hold up to 220 passengers, for takeoff two minutes ahead of schedule at 9:58 a.m., according to live flight tracker site Flight Aware.—
Hadley Hitson,
The Tennessean,
15 July 2025
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Jenner even showed off his surfing moves, getting up on top of a board being held up by multiple friends.—
Rachel McRady,
People.com,
14 July 2025
Verb
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The British Museum has many artifacts in its collection which were plundered during imperial and colonial eras, and are contested.—
Lauren Frayer,
NPR,
11 July 2025
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In time, settlers would excavate and plunder countless ancestral ruins across the Southwest, with artifacts carried off to private collections and museum displays.—
Mike Bezemek,
Smithsonian Magazine,
10 July 2025
Noun
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Investigators linked the break-in to a commercial burglary in a nearby town, police said.—
Dennis Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
9 July 2025
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The baseball players were on the road at the time of the break-ins, although Sherman was at home with his family.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
8 July 2025
Verb
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In fact, the entire original Potlatch Club, once a 1960s and ‘70s hideaway for elites and celebrities — including Greta Garbo, Cliff Robertson and Richard Widmark — had been swallowed up by nature, looted, lashed by hurricane winds and long forgotten.—
Norma Meyer,
Oc Register,
9 July 2025
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Stores in downtown Los Angeles were broken into and looted, and some of the downtown area was vandalized with anti-ICE and anti-Trump graffiti.—
Peter D'Abrosca,
FOXNews.com,
18 June 2025
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“Stick up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stick%20up. Accessed 24 Jul. 2025.
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