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waltzed (up)

verb

past tense of waltz (up)
as in turned up

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for waltzed (up)
  1. turned up
  2. arrived
  3. showed up
  4. reached
  5. came
  6. came up
  7. drew on
  8. attained
Verb
  • Local cases have also turned up in Texas, California, Arizona and Hawaii.
    — Andrés Henao, CNN Money, 21 Sep. 2026
  • For 718 days, as one season gave way to the next and search after search turned up empty, Nancy Tucker remained missing.
    — Brady Dennis, Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of turned up
Verb
  • Melton fled the scene before deputies arrived and was found a short time later at Pamela Way and Jeanette Cove in Alexander, the report says.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Those who arrived in the 1900s had very different cultural, political, and religious backgrounds from the older Texas Jews.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of arrived
Verb
  • Lehrer arranged a meeting to sell him the files—then never showed up.
    — Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2026
  • Not sure what happened there, but SeanJo definitely showed up for work.
    — Joe Kinsey OutKick, FOXNews.com, 7 Sep. 2026
Definition of showed up
Verb
  • The number of Americans unemployed for more than 26 weeks hovered last month slightly below a five-year high last reached in May.
    — Bryan Mena, CNN Money, 16 Sep. 2026
  • They’re beloved, beloved characters [whose] stories reached the end of the line.
    — Max Gao, HollywoodReporter, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of reached
Verb
  • That came just a few days after news broke that Palantir had secured a $10 billion contract from the US Army over the next decade.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2025
  • All five of Bednar’s outs came via strikeout on Wednesday.
    — Brendan Kuty, New York Times, 7 Aug. 2025
Definition of came
Verb
  • The Wildcats defense came up big on Colorado’s fourth drive when Brus recorded a tackle for a loss on fourth-and-2 at the NU 27.
    — Colleen Kane, Chicago Tribune, 20 Sep. 2026
  • Bray, guarded tight by a Virginia Cavalier, somehow came up with it for the 38-yard reception.
    — Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 20 Sep. 2026
Definition of came up
Verb
  • Minhaj and Venkataramanujam drew on their own backgrounds for the script.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Rather than writing traditional Broadway show tunes, Sheik and Sater created a rock score that drew on the emotional directness of alternative music.
    — SPIN Staff, SPIN, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of drew on
Verb
  • In this new culture, freedom was attained not through engagement in political struggle but through individual consumer choices.
    — Robert Rubsam, New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2026
  • The Tennessee singer-songwriter, actor, and philanthropist hailed from a vanishing class, a 20th-century monocultural phenomenon who attained a household-name status that never lost its luster.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of attained
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“Waltzed (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/waltzed%20%28up%29. Accessed 23 Sep. 2026.

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