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booted (up)

verb

Definition of booted (up)

past tense of boot (up)

as in primed

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Leading up to the offseason, with a weakened starting pitching class, Valdez is primed to be the headlining option in the winter, and Patrick McAvoy of Sports Illustrated thinks that the New York Mets are a prime landing spot.

— Hunter Mulholland, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025

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In keeping with royal tradition, the young Duke of Kent was educated at Ludgrove (also attended by Prince William and Prince Harry), then Eton and later Le Rosey in Switzerland.

— Stephanie Bridger-Linning, Vanity Fair, 10 Oct. 2026
On campus, students are educated on the importance of not touching or feeding the donkeys, which weigh about 500 pounds and can charge at humans when feeling threatened.

— Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2026

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In some reports, customers said the salesperson instructed them to authorize charges flagged by their bank as potentially fraudulent.

— Monika Evstatieva, NPR, 14 Oct. 2026
The attack sparked a wave of criticism from European officials, just weeks after French President Emmanuel Macron instructed lawmakers to draft a new protection plan against the growing threat of cyberattacks in the country, and beyond.

— Sana Noor Haq, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2026

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An expatriate resident of Riyadh told CNN their children were being schooled at home this week.

— Tim Lister, CNN Money, 13 Oct. 2026
In-line fours got bigger, went a hell of a lot faster, and schooled several generations of riders in sheer terror, while simultaneously addicting them to industrial doses of adrenaline.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 10 Oct. 2026

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Check out the first images of The Cold Song, provided exclusively to The Hollywood Reporter, below.

— Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 14 Oct. 2026
Customers who had been due to fly on Saturday were provided with accommodation and rebooked on alternative flights, according to the airline.

— Lianne Kolirin, CNN Money, 13 Oct. 2026

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Aurelius Systems recently mounted its Archimedes autonomous laser weapon on an American Rheinmetall unmanned ground vehicle at AUSA 2026.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2026
Problems soon mounted, Beskrestnov said, with communication outages on top of the speed restriction, most likely caused by the new limits.

— Hanna Arhirova, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026

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Detours and shortcuts in the brain The cells and synapses of the brain aren’t arranged in rigid, linear paths for each task and experience.

— Sean Mccabe, Hartford Courant, 18 Oct. 2026
Desperate for actual contact with Holmes, Fielder has arranged to meet her briefly at the prison before Evans shows up.

— Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2026

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When someone on your team is struggling with burnout, a manager’s job, a career pivot or a hard season of life, the highest-leverage intervention available is a conversation with a skilled human who is trained for exactly that.

— Jordan Dunin, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026
With the Bajaria ouster done and dusted, the industry’s eyes are now trained on film chief Dan Lin, who held an urgent meeting with the film team at the company on Thursday night to go over the shake up.

— Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 16 Oct. 2026

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