Thesaurus results for STICKING UP

sticking up

verb

present participle of stick up

as in ripping off

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James missed three games early in March, the Lakers ripping off wins against Indiana, New York and Minnesota without him.

— Dan Woike, New York Times, 26 July 2026
And yet scores of interlopers have dropped by the page in order to try and score a miracle — or even have more nefarious plans of ripping off cinephiles.

— William Earl, Variety, 20 July 2026

Definition of ripping off

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Meanwhile, gross margins are holding up despite input cost inflation and company continues to be execute flawlessly in GPU, agentic CPU and customer traction.

— Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 5 Aug. 2026
With earnings holding up, AI investment accelerating, the rally broadening and the political calendar becoming more favorable, the path of least resistance still appears higher.

— Robert Daugherty, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026

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Tracy Daryl Mingo is accused of wearing various disguises while robbing metro Atlanta Circle Ks, Subways, and Family Dollars.

— Dan Raby, CBS News, 6 Aug. 2026
Thieves have long used a variety of methods — tapping into ducts, hijacking tanker trucks or robbing directly from facilities of Petroleos Mexicanos, the state energy company known as Pemex.

— Foreign Correspondent, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2026

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In vivid strokes of saffron orange and seafoam green watercolors, Wilson rendered a vibrant portrait of herself plundering birthday cake by the handful as party guests languished around the frame.

— Tania Azhang, Sacbee.com, 26 July 2026
Historians theorize that, among several other factors, these sea peoples plundering the Mediterranean helped usher in a Dark Age where the ability to read and write was lost in Ancient Greece.

— Eliana Dockterman, Time, 17 July 2026

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When a group of participants began looting, violence erupted as police attacked with tear gas and shot and killed a 16 year-old amid hundreds of arrests.

— Laura French, TheWeek, 28 July 2026
Brisas de Maiquetía has not been spared from looting, a problem affecting all of La Guaira.

— Julimar Valentina Rivas Perez, NBC news, 24 July 2026

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Frantic skirmishes between the family and the beast take place as the house floods, and eventually the invading creature is tangled up in a trap.

— William Earl, Variety, 8 Aug. 2026
But when his ice cream-eating schoolmates begin slaughtering their parents overnight, seemingly fueled by the wafting sound of the truck jingle and old-timey black-and-white animations invading their phones, Jared seems like the lucky one.

— Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2026

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