PULLS UP Synonyms: 68 Similar and Opposite Words

pulls up

verb

present tense third-person singular of pull up

as in stops

to bring (something) to a standstill the jockey tried to pull up the apparently injured horse

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Recent Examples of pulls up Tommy Hilfiger himself pulls up in a taxicab — what a serendipitous coincidence! — Tom Smyth, Vulture, 1 Sep. 2026 As Ezukanma stands up and pulls up highlights of him against Fields, the man asserts that Ezukanma didn’t need to go to the hospital and was only struck once by Fields from behind. — Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 Aug. 2026 There’s a great accidental gag in a cut bit from the original MTV pilot when a deputy pulls up to arrest Knoxville and forgets to put her car in park. — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2026 The car pulls up to the club, and Johnson heads to the green room. — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 17 June 2026 Insider tip Become friendly with the doormen and bellhops, who make your stay wonderful from the second your car pulls up and are reminiscent of old New York. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 May 2026 The Danish Algerian songwriter’s peripatetic new album pulls up at the bustling crossroads of the electroclash comeback and the contemporary Scandinavian school. — Walden Green, Pitchfork, 24 Apr. 2026 But for a mine, all that needs to happen is a vessel pulls up, shoves one overboard, and moves on. — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 13 Mar. 2026 Tramon Mark pulls up for a, what else, midrange jumper and OU takes yet another timeout. — Thomas Jones, Austin American Statesman, 7 Mar. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for pulls up

Verb

The metalpoint tool sometimes slips or skitters; the fountain pen sometimes stops working—though, deprived of vision, the artist is unaware, and keeps drawing the now-invisible line.

— Jeffrey Weiss, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026
There’s a tender, surprising moment of reconciliation in the novel’s final pages — the place where story stops.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of stops

Verb

That kind of audit often brings up a short list of high-impact changes that don’t require a complete system overhaul.

— Wyles Daniel, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2026
The first is something Panthea Parker, a headache become corporeal, brings up at a jewelry event hosted by her friend Queenie.

— Brian Moylan, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of brings up

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Now a salesperson can type in what a customer wants, such as products, quantities, delivery options and available discounts, and Roadrunner’s multi-agentic system draws up a customer quote in minutes.

— Richard Nieva, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
Each electric arc furnace used in steelmaking has an operating power load between 40 and 200 megawatts, and the entire US steel industry draws up to 11 gigawatts of power at peak production across all facilities.

— Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 7 July 2026

Definition of draws up

Verb

Tim Cook stays close to Apple Tim Cook became Apple’s executive chair after John Ternus succeeded him as CEO, with a $2 million annual salary and a $45 million target-value equity award.

— Diane Brady, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2026
Trailing the 2010s trilogy by long enough that a genuine pandemic happened in the interim, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes stays within the continuity of those movies while introducing new characters and a further-future setting.

— Jesse Hassenger, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Sep. 2026