wrapped up

past tense of wrap up

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of wrapped up Attorneys on Thursday wrapped up their arguments in a civil case against Sacramento Kings minority owner Phil Oates filed by the widow of a motorcyclist who died in a traffic collision with the businessman in a suburban neighborhood. — Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 24 Sep. 2026 The World Cup wrapped up on July 19 and the Premier League kicked off just over a month later. — Patrick Sung Cuadrado, CNN Money, 24 Sep. 2026 The Roos have done so without their two top strikers, Raphael Kistmann (whose eligibility is wrapped up in the court system) and Jeremy Francou. — Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 23 Sep. 2026 After last week’s pseudo-bottle episode came up short, the Apple TV series packed in 44 minutes of character development, wrapped up mini plotlines and launched a classic, low-stakes dilemma for our titular football coach. — Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 18 Sep. 2026 The two-night premiere that kicked off on Tuesday and wrapped up on Wednesday saw surprising frontrunners emerge, technical difficulties threaten to mire the spectacle, and of course, a pair of promising contenders sent home. — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Sep. 2026 Los Angeles wrapped up a playoff spot on Monday and still is vying for the top seed in the NL. — ABC News, 15 Sep. 2026 The precise figures go unpublished, all wrapped up in one big commercial total in the accounts, but there is unlikely to be a bigger deal of its kind in the Premier League. — James Pearce, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026 The former finance worker wrapped up his own aerospace career back in 2017, winding down from a three-decade career of crunching financial figures. — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wrapped up
Verb
  • Over the course of Next Gen NYC’s season, which ended this past week, the model Ava Dash grabs a slice of pizza on Fulton Street; strolls through the Seaport; and calls her father, the hip-hop mogul Damon Dash, from a bench at Pier 17.
    — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 29 Sep. 2026
  • But the optics changed for James — a four-time NBA champion who has won titles with three different teams — once the Knicks ended their drought without needing his help.
    — Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 28 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Today, CMOs win when their brands are cited, summarized and recommended inside generative answers, where discovery and decisions now happen.
    — Vin Sonpal, Forbes.com, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Yet Marcon’s works defy old-world tempos with their pacing (the shots in Monelle, 2017, last no more than a second each), their length (several clock in at under five minutes), and, of course, the seeming ease with which they can be summarized.
    — Matthew McLean, Artforum, 22 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • When Beck finished, his lawyer asked Leigh to follow her to the table to sign some paperwork.
    — Josephine Reisman, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Then there’s the Beyond Speyside series that launched last year with Jamaica Edition, a whisky that was aged for 12 years and then finished in rum barrels sourced from that Caribbean island nation.
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 23 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • And then there was the Israeli condition that Hamas disarmament should come first, and then the rest of the promises outlined in the ceasefire could follow.
    — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Amazon said it was not given advanced notice that Muse would access its store and outlined several other concerns.
    — Jonathan Vanian, CNBC, 21 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The grand jury and Jackson County District Attorney Angel Myers McIlrath both concluded those allegations were baseless.
    — Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 22 Sep. 2026
  • The first phase of the competition concluded in late August, with all 25,000 relationships between polynomials and symmetry groups realized.
    — Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 22 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The gigs last year also wound up being some of the last the Grateful Dead offshoot band would ever play due to Bob Weir’s death in January.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2026
  • Carroll wound up living with Newton-John and her mother in their Hampstead mews apartment for two years.
    — Michelle Duncan, Architectural Digest, 26 Sep. 2026

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“Wrapped up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wrapped%20up. Accessed 29 Sep. 2026.

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