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Recent Examples of stick up
Verb
Man-su tries to stick up for his team, who really don’t seem all that bothered, but the Americans aren’t listening.—Damon Wise, Deadline, 29 Aug. 2025 Some contestants went out to dinner, where Brown got the chance to thank Santos for sticking up for him.—Caroline Framke, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2025
Noun
Today’s stickup artist is after something else: smartphones.—Michael Loria, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2025 The numbers showed an increase in stickups — if only on paper.—Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for stick up
But the holdup is the fact that, according to NBA insider Jake Fischer, Golden State does not want Malik Monk in return.
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Robert Marvi,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Sep. 2025
With training camp underway and the regular season opener coming up in less than a month, Kaprizov’s words Thursday might provide fans with hope that holdup is about economics and not environment.
Among them was a hip bone graft to cover a chunk of bone that was ripped off in one bite from the bear.
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Abigail Adams,
PEOPLE,
20 Oct. 2025
The Lions ripped off four straight victories until last week’s loss at Kansas City and now return home highly motivated to put that frustrating defeat behind them.
Staged to look like a random mugging of a courier, the robbery was, in fact, a sophisticated heist that would ultimately involve the Provisional IRA, the New York mafia and the Colombian cartel.
Along with goods for trade and plundered wealth, concepts of the soul have traveled the networks of empire.
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David Wingrave,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
The French started to plunder Spanish ships on their voyages to Spain, and the English quickly joined in—their attacks shaped, in part, by the Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century, which spawned anti-Catholic and anti-Spanish sentiment.
Martin died last weekend at age 36 while in police custody in Oakland after a home break-in.
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Jim Keyser,
Idaho Statesman,
25 Oct. 2025
Cassidy Manetta, the marketing manager for the theater, told reporters in a press release Friday that the break-in is projected to cost the theater over $250,000.
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Caroline Zimmerman,
Kansas City Star,
24 Oct. 2025
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