warmed (up)

Definition of warmed (up)next
past tense of warm (up)
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Verb
  • Scalping tickets wasn’t new, of course, but Kahn believed that its formalization online provided sports teams, and other entertainment businesses, with valuable information about demand that could enable them to make more money without alienating their most loyal fans.
    John Cassidy, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
  • But the endorsement in a safe Democratic district is unlikely to attract the major expenditures and outreach that UNITE HERE has provided in battleground states and districts.
    Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 19 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • The biggest changes came when Cunnick furnished the place, bringing in Noguchi lamps, a Richard Tuttle chair and lamps, and a Judd side table and daybed, which served as seating in a dining nook.
    Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Set the scene The 12-bedroom property, hidden discreetly behind high walls, feels like a mini country manor house, furnished with seven generous suites and five garden pavilions housing more modest, colorful cottage bedrooms.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Mikal Bridges supplied early scoring.
    C.J. Holmes, New York Daily News, 21 Apr. 2026
  • At least 126 solar projects proposed since the beginning of 2024 are awaiting regulatory approval, according to a Grist and AP analysis of the latest information developers supplied to the Energy Information Administration.
    Ayurella Horn-Muller, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Even without the latest new-fangled gadgets, anglers are more technologically equipped than ever with things like GPS, electronic contour maps of lakes auto-steering trolling motors.
    Mike McFeely, Twin Cities, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Both come well equipped for a deep dive into the life and thought of the tech entrepreneur.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • The person opened the door armed with a sword and stabbed a Boston Police officer in the arm and knocked the clinician to the ground, according to police.
    Riley Rourke, CBS News, 4 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • The researchers also found that being young, female, and well educated increased the odds that someone would be moist averse, as did being disgusted more generally by bodily functions.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 Apr. 2026
  • An April 2025 Hoover Institute report conducted in partnership with Stanford HAI found China has built a massive cohort of homegrown talent, with nearly all researchers behind DeepSeek’s five foundations papers educated or trained in China.
    Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 16 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Seconds later, the controller instructed the vehicle to stop, but the warning came too late as the aircraft touched down and continued down the runway.
    Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The March 22 crash killed two pilots and sent 40 others to the hospital after an air traffic controller cleared a fire truck to cross a runway where the Air Canada plane was already instructed to land.
    Doha Madani, NBC news, 23 Apr. 2026
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“Warmed (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/warmed%20%28up%29. Accessed 26 Apr. 2026.

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