Thesaurus results for FRAME-UP

frame-up

noun

Definition of frame-up

as in setup

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Recent Examples of frame-up The crooked cops didn’t want anything on the record that might come back to bite them if, or when, the frame-up unraveled. — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 25 Mar. 2026 Guevara and two colleagues, Mason and then-Detective Ernest Halvorson, orchestrated a frame-up by coercing one witness to identify Rios by beating him with a phone book and flashlight, and another by threatening to charge him with obstruction, according to the plaintiffs’ allegations. — Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 20 Feb. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for frame-up

Noun

If your camping setup could use a refresh, REI’s Labor Day Sale is an excellent place to start, with impressive discounts on apparel and gear from top brands including The North Face, Hoka, Keen, Brooks, Vuori, Yeti, and more, up to 50 percent off.

— Kaitlin Marks, Travel + Leisure, 3 Sep. 2026
That setup produced an average round-trip processing time of 68 milliseconds.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of setup

Noun

Berry wore a black bikini and a white cover-up with a halter neckline.

— Lori A Bashian, FOXNews.com, 23 Aug. 2026
Whether styled with a matching linen top, a lightweight blouse, or thrown on as a swimsuit cover-up en route to the beach club, these versatile pants make looking polished as easy as ever.

— Julia Morlino, Travel + Leisure, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of cover-up

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Such fraudulence bore only poisoned fruit, swelling overseas bank accounts for the Manchurian candidates who were seeding duplicity into the loam of their nation’s imagination.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2026
This latest act of duplicity is a new low, even for the HFPA.

— Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 28 July 2026

Definition of duplicity

Noun

Smith, though, is still adjusting to coach Mike Macdonald’s defensive scheme.

— Andrew Destin, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026
The bigger those two factor primes are, conventional thinking goes, the harder their multiplication is to undo—a sentiment that has made RSA one of the world’s most popular encryption schemes since its debut nearly a half-century ago.

— Peter Hall, Scientific American, 4 Sep. 2026