1
as in hauled
to cause to follow by applying steady force on
a team of horses pulling a heavy wagon
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as in yanked
to draw out by force or with effort
the dentist had to struggle to pull the tooth
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Recent Examples of pulled
Michigan’s largest distributor of housing vouchers hasn't pulled a name off its general waitlist in nearly a year.
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Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 4 Oct. 2024
Brady and a few stringers quickly pulled together what Brady named Page Six because that’s the page where the column initially ran.
—Susan Mulcahy, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Oct. 2024
Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 4 Oct. 2024
Brady and a few stringers quickly pulled together what Brady named Page Six because that’s the page where the column initially ran.
—Susan Mulcahy, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pulled
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Nearby residents hauled buckets of river water to flush toilets.Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2024
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Mules hauled food and supplies to the Buncombe County town of Black Mountain on Tuesday, Mountain Mule Packers wrote on Facebook.Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2024
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Matthews devotes one parenthetical sentence claiming rocket launches hurt coastal wildlife.Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
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The public pleas for testing are part of health officials’ efforts to halt the outbreak that has disproportionately hurt Native Americans in the Great Plains and Southwest.Kff Health News, Orange County Register, 13 Nov. 2024
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Water lily plucked from the Dior garden helps purify the skin of impurities, including heavy metals.Lauren Valenti, Vogue, 4 Oct. 2024
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The sound is often described as similar to a string being plucked on a violin.Angelica Bottaro, Verywell Health, 2 Oct. 2024
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The exhibition lays claim to the body as the superintending conceit of Warhol’s corpus—an argument often strained by inclusions here of the Hammer & Sickle (1976) works or allusions to the film Sleep (1964).Ara H. Merjian, ARTnews.com, 4 Oct. 2024
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In Brockton, Massachusetts, immigrants from a variety of countries, including Haiti, Cape Verde and countries in Central and South America, have strained local resources — though mostly in the form of emergency shelter capacity.Rob Wile, NBC News, 3 Oct. 2024
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Utah’s roster is inarguably weakened by replacing Callie Smith with Genie Erohkina (one of the worst performers last weekend in Virginia Beach), but the roster rules incentivize teams to dump a mid-season acquisition like Smith, so why not cash in at the trade deadline?Todd Boss, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
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The yen remained weakened after Ishiba downplayed the prospect of imminent interest rate hikes earlier this week.Ian Mount, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2024
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“Pulled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pulled. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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