talk up

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Recent Examples of talk up Audi is talking up the vertical frame where the grille usually sits, as a key design element. Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 3 Sep. 2025 Celebrity trainers like Harley Pasternak talk up the perks of getting your steps in every day, and a slew of research supports taking up a walking habit for your health. Korin Miller, Flow Space, 19 Aug. 2025 With Trump adopting Russian points that Ukraine should cede land for a peace deal, Zelenskyy and the Europeans talked up the American commitment to participate alongside European allies in providing unspecified security guarantees for any peace deal with Putin. Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 18 Aug. 2025 The singer talked up her new album, Lover, and worked with staffers on the Easter-egg rich button choices for her jacket. Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 14 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for talk up
Recent Examples of Synonyms for talk up
Verb
  • However, the president’s criticism of mail-in ballots could risk disrupting the inroads Republicans made with voters last cycle, with the party spending millions promoting mail-in ballots ahead of the 2024 election.
    Hailey Bullis, The Washington Examiner, 11 Sep. 2025
  • It was created with the intention of promoting AI fluency and a future-ready, AI-confident workforce.
    Malana VanTyler, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Medical students often toe the line between speaking up and deferring in situations.
    Kristen Moon, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • When people don’t feel safe to speak up, ask questions or make mistakes, that’s a toxic workplace.
    Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The average vehicle sells for nearly $50,000 and almost 20% of new car buyers are paying $1,000 or more a month, the report said.
    Betty Lin-Fisher, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
  • In the current challenging environment, while GPs are selling assets cheaply or not at all, most LPs are focused on buying and selling baskets of secondaries.
    Control Risks, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Business coalitions like Brands for Public Lands, of which Patagonia is one of more than 125 members, are rallying our respective communities to speak out.
    Ryan Gellert, Time, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Killings related to domestic violence are making headlines and families and friends of the victims are speaking out in an effort to bring awareness to these incidents that are happening too frequently.
    Leah Olajide, Freep.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Colman recalled crying on the set of the BBC's TV adaptation of Les Misérables after a scene in which her character hits a child.
    Daysia Tolentino, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Sep. 2025
  • In episode 3, which came out in April, Howard’s character cries when Seth Rogen’s studio head character gives him a difficult piece of feedback, resulting in Howard angrily throwing his signature baseball cap at him.
    Brian Anthony Hernandez, PEOPLE, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Moments after grabbing Seattle midfielder Obed Vargas around the neck, footage shows Suárez shouting and then spitting in the direction of a Sounders staff member.
    Ben Church, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2025
  • There is a write-in ballot option to shout out your top pick of sandwich maker.
    Endia Fontanez, AZCentral.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Younger Republican voters and GOP contrarians are piping up to challenge the broad consensus in the Republican Party that has been in lockstep with policy on Israel.
    Kristina Karisch, The Hill, 19 Aug. 2025
  • But Surfside is paying off a $30 million bill to keep its pipes up and running.
    Pat Beall, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 June 2025
Verb
  • Daniel yells after jabbing his net into the bank.
    Wesley Bruer, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2025
  • As Mamdani was delivering his opening remarks, a man with a shirt that read Cuba and a Cuban flag approached the stage, yelling that Mamdani was a Communist.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2025

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“Talk up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/talk%20up. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.

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