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Recent Examples of stick up
Jason Quick, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025
Because of the rooftop air conditioner sticking up through the Topo2's crossbars, Escapod mounted an iKamper Skycamp rooftop tent (RTT) to our pickup rack instead, providing plenty of space for my family of four to sleep (technically enough space for six people).
—New Atlas, 27 Dec. 2024
Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 10 Oct. 2024
Listen to this article A brazen robber who shot a wall during a Brooklyn store stickup was linked to the violent heist by the chunky diamond earrings adorning his earlobes, federal prosecutors allege.
—John Annese, New York Daily News, 24 Mar. 2024
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Verb
The lesson: Never get bullied. McMillan, meanwhile, had his own experience with sticking up for himself.
—Jason Quick, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025
Because of the rooftop air conditioner sticking up through the Topo2's crossbars, Escapod mounted an iKamper Skycamp rooftop tent (RTT) to our pickup rack instead, providing plenty of space for my family of four to sleep (technically enough space for six people).
—New Atlas, 27 Dec. 2024
Noun
Frank Moten was always of the mindset that Cadillac Richie did the robbery, but the real Cadillac Richie is a little bit different than our Cadillac Richie; the real Cadillac Richie was more of a stickup kid.
—Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 10 Oct. 2024
Listen to this article A brazen robber who shot a wall during a Brooklyn store stickup was linked to the violent heist by the chunky diamond earrings adorning his earlobes, federal prosecutors allege.
—John Annese, New York Daily News, 24 Mar. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stick up
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Ironically the entire sequence only occurred because Demko, uncharacteristically, robbed Cale Makar arriving late and taking the fourth man’s ice, but let the puck spill out of his glove and into the corner where the Avalanche retrieved it.—
Thomas Drance,
The Athletic,
5 Feb. 2025
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Some of you are gonna go home tonight and feel like you’ve been robbed.—
Maya Georgi,
Rolling Stone,
3 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Paperwork holdups and the slow start of FBI background checks.—
Alexis Simendinger,
The Hill,
3 Jan. 2025
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That the holdup in the case was the statute of limitations fits into a growing pattern within the legal landscape.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA TODAY,
24 Jan. 2025
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Antz was DreamWorks Animation’s first movie, thanks to a switch in the release schedule that had placed it before The Prince of Egypt and — crucially — Pixar’s A Bug’s Life, which DreamWorks’ Jeffrey Katzenberg is alleged to have ripped off.—
James Grebey,
Vulture,
31 Jan. 2025
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Kind of rip off the Band-Aid, figure out what that looks like.—
NBC News,
NBC News,
26 Jan. 2025
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The burglaries are part of a wave of crime tourism.—
Bill Chappell,
NPR,
11 Feb. 2025
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Four Colombian nationals were arrested by Oregon authorities following a recent string of home burglaries.—
Christina Shaw,
Fox News,
11 Feb. 2025
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While on the House floor on Monday, Mace held up handcuffs.—
Rachel Schilke,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
11 Feb. 2025
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Nevertheless, the economy was holding up reasonably well.—
Jason Furman,
Foreign Affairs,
10 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Otto Frank requested that the spaces, plundered by the Nazis, remain vacant, their barrenness attesting to profound loss.—
Laurel Graeber,
New York Times,
22 Jan. 2025
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In Charleston, Loyalists were desperate for skilled horsemen who could work as scouts and raiders, plundering Patriot homes for supplies.—
Kinsey Gidick,
Smithsonian Magazine,
12 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Neither broad daylight nor below-freezing temps deterred a St. Paul man from committing a string of car break-ins in Chanhassen earlier this month.—
Helena Gunderson,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
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Police arrested a break-in suspect accused of smashing his car into a SouthPark jewelry store in south Charlotte early Thursday, court records show.—
Joe Marusak,
Charlotte Observer,
6 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Protesters also looted and set fire to the Ugandan Embassy and the mission of Belgium, while the office of the U.N. humanitarian agency in Congo was also attacked.—
Jonathan Granoff,
Newsweek,
29 Jan. 2025
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Napolitano said Wednesday that medical stocks had been looted and a bullet had pierced the roof of the operating theatre at the Kyeshero hospital as an operation was underway.—
Nimi Princewill,
CNN,
29 Jan. 2025
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“Stick up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stick%20up. Accessed 16 Feb. 2025.
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