bung up

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bung up
Verb
  • The T-shirt, available in numerous colors, features a woman suggestively licking a stamp that contains the distinctive Playboy image of a rabbit wearing a bowtie.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Danielle took her shot and voted for Boston Rob, who managed to turn the vote onto Wes Bergmann, wiggle out of banishment, and make his way back into the turret to lick his wounds.
    Vulture Staff, Vulture, 6 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • This brass was crushed in a flattened oval around the dog’s neck, as though it had been pounded with a hammer.
    Frank C. Hibben, Outdoor Life, 13 Feb. 2025
  • There are surely similarities to sectors such as domestic manufacturing and agriculture, which were also pounded by global competition, technological disruption and automation.
    Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • His wife, Avital, who was seven months pregnant at the time, hid in a safe room with their two daughters.
    Julia Frankel, Chicago Tribune, 14 Feb. 2025
  • Dylan notices the slogan and examines the poster to find that Irv hid his drawing of the Exports Hall, with detailed instructions on how to get there written on the back, behind it.
    Megan McCluskey, TIME, 14 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Linda lashes out at everyone, a bottomless pit of emotional need, and takes refuge in drugs and alcohol.
    Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Trump has lashed out at the fees U.S. shipping pays to use the canal but seems most animated by the involvement of a Chinese company in its operations.
    Simon Lewis and Matt Spetalnick, USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • On the first play from scrimmage, running back Tyrone Tracy Jr. had the ball punched out of his arms.
    Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 10 Nov. 2024
  • Williams had the ball punched out on a run by Jalen Carter, and the Eagles recovered and returned the ball all the way to the Rams’ 10-yard line, 4d ago / 2:18 PM PST Copied Share End of third: Eagles 16, Rams 15 Rohan Nadkarni Great, great game so far that’s setting up to be an exciting finish.
    Greg Rosenstein, NBC News, 20 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • By comparison, organic sales at LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton’s key fashion and leather goods division fell 1 percent year-over-year in the fourth quarter, beating consensus estimates for a 3 percent decline.
    Joelle Diderich, WWD, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Comparable sales in the company's International Developmental Licensed Markets segment rose 4.1% in the quarter ended December 31, beating estimates of a 0.43% drop.
    Savyata Mishra, USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • That Arsenal recently battered the reigning – waning – Premier League champions with a scathing 5-1 scoreline is a far more convincing statistic to support the above reasoning.
    Julia Ranney, The Athletic, 14 Feb. 2025
  • But while Munich had been hoping to hear greater detail on the Trump administrations publicly morphing peace plan for Ukraine, they were battered with a bizarre, post-truth litany of culture-war complaints and a bid to sow serious doubt about electoral integrity across Europe.
    Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 14 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Cookie whipped them and forced them to walk on burning pavement.
    Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
  • Pitchers and catchers report to the Padres’ spring training complex on Wednesday, leaving the team six weeks to whip the roster in shape for opening day.
    Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Feb. 2025
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