as in to pry
to draw out by force or with effort
uprooted the old bridge's pilings upon the completion of its replacement
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Recent Examples of uproot
Last year, Weiss uprooted from Los Angeles with her wife, New York Times alum Nellie Bowles, and their kids to New York.
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Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 7 Oct. 2025
This summer, however, Hamilton County's first place spot got uprooted by a Cherrybark Oak in Vanderburgh County.
—John Tufts, IndyStar, 3 Oct. 2025
As with the enclosures in England and Scotland, villagers were uprooted and dispossessed to make way for sheep and cattle.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 30 Sep. 2025
One millennial marketing specialist, Lukas Yla, was having difficulty landing a Silicon Valley job after uprooting his life from Lithuania to San Francisco.
—Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 17 Sep. 2025
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Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 7 Oct. 2025
This summer, however, Hamilton County's first place spot got uprooted by a Cherrybark Oak in Vanderburgh County.
—John Tufts, IndyStar, 3 Oct. 2025
As with the enclosures in England and Scotland, villagers were uprooted and dispossessed to make way for sheep and cattle.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 30 Sep. 2025
One millennial marketing specialist, Lukas Yla, was having difficulty landing a Silicon Valley job after uprooting his life from Lithuania to San Francisco.
—Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 17 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for uproot
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And still, Payton pulled a win from where the Denver sun doesn’t shine, throwing everything in his kitchen sink and then some at the Giants in a 33-point fourth quarter.—
Luca Evans,
Denver Post,
20 Oct. 2025
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The Niners on those seven or eight power plays were pulling right guard Dominick Puni.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
20 Oct. 2025
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The batarangs could hit long-range targets, while the bat-claw brought far-away enemies to Batman and could yank obstacles off walls.—
Jordan Moreau,
Variety,
14 Oct. 2025
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Lockheed Martin subsidiary Sikorsky has taken the next logical step in making a Black Hawk helicopter autonomous by not only installing the gear needed for self-flying, but by yanking out the entire cockpit and replacing it with cargo doors.—
David Szondy
October 13,
New Atlas,
13 Oct. 2025
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Rare earth elements, essential for everything from superconductors to optical fibers, are difficult to extract and even harder to recycle efficiently.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
17 Oct. 2025
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Summarize, translate, and extract answers from long documents in seconds.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
17 Oct. 2025
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Wentz was once plucked from a cocoon in North Dakota and thrown into the Philadelphia fire.—
Alec Lewis,
New York Times,
17 Oct. 2025
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Helicopters have been plucking people off rooftops for rescue from flooding and structural damage.—
Andrew Freedman,
CNN Money,
14 Oct. 2025
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“Uproot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uproot. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.
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