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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
The Louvre was robbed The museum is closed while police investigate.
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Diane Brady,
Fortune,
20 Oct. 2025
Directed by Sara Talab, this evocative period drama unfolds in 1960s Jeddah, where a young musician’s life is upended when illness robs him of his hearing.
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.
The servants of this democratic republic’s machinery are, in truth, nothing but members of a mafia set up to plunder the island’s riches—and the West is complicit, with its own interests in the riches underground, in the ocean, from the soil.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 Oct. 2025
The 18 runs plundered off one over was the most Jasprit Bumrah had ever conceded in Tests, leaving the bowler perplexed as he was replaced.
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