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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sticking up
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George Lopez and Joe Rogan are among those to accuse Mencia of ripping off their material, with Rogan and Mencia even once getting into a public confrontation over the matter.
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Instead of ripping off his shirt, or wildly gesticulating, McTominay ran to the edge of the pitch with his hands facing down and his lips pursed.
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In her classic book Atlas Shrugged, Rand used the Greek myth of Atlas holding up the world as a metaphor.
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Brandsema explained that humans are born with one pool of motor neurons for life, and SMA slowly robs individuals of their motor neurons over time, leaving them with difficulty walking or running, holding up their heads, or even swallowing food and liquid safely.
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Also in 2007, Spencer was sentenced concurrently to seven years in prison for choking a woman, slamming her head to the ground, and robbing her of her cellphone, and for smashing into a woman's car and ransacking it, prosecutors said.
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Now that shares are hovering just above the company’s opening price, struggling to clear even the mid $150s by midday Wednesday, Musk’s net value has once again shrunk to a still-obscene $957 billion, according to Bloomberg‘s Billionaires Index, robbing him of his new honorific.
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New genetic data indicates that cats feeding off the abundant rodents plundering human food stores domesticated themselves for similar reasons around 10,000 years ago.
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But Texas Tech isn't the only program from the Lone Star State whose commit list LSU is plundering.
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Gordon worked with archeologists to match statues to specific sites that Toek Tik raided, mapping out looting networks.
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Both were offered up by the same person, Marino Massimo De Caro, later convicted of looting an Italian library.
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There can be legitimate debate on immigration, but Trump veers into sinister areas of xenophobia of invading rapists and murderers.
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This does not mean becoming the team’s psychologist or invading anyone’s privacy.
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Just recently, a client came to us because their onboarding and user data pipeline kept breaking in ways their users could feel.
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Not a week goes by without news of a high-profile auction breaking in Publishers Weekly.
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“Sticking up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sticking%20up. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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