cry up

verb

Definition of cry upnext
as in to announce
to praise or publicize lavishly and often excessively in exchange for his hefty endorsement fee, the basketball player is expected to cry up that brand of sneaker at every opportunity

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cry up
  1. announce
  2. crack up
  3. advertise
  4. acclaim
  5. blow up
  6. promote
  7. trumpet
  8. tout
Verb
  • Meanwhile, the equivalent of three full-time fire department positions — likely non-firefighter staff members — are slated to be among 91 or so layoffs expected to soon be announced.
    Shomik Mukherjee, The Mercury News, 12 Jan. 2025
  • The changes announced Saturday didn't apply to UCLA Health or health care staff, Frenk said.
    Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2025
Definition of announce
Verb
  • While Banis was cracking up over Dotty's unusual napping spot, Dotty had no idea she was found.
    Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Dan Hawkins decided to play Free Love Freeway, whilst Drummer Rufus, harmonised in the background and Dan’s Mrs was cracking up.
    Ralph Jones, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2024
Definition of crack up
Verb
  • Beginning in 1992, the Ontological-Hysteric occupied an upper chamber of the beautiful St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery, and Foreman advertised his yearly shows there with blizzards of black-and-white posters, which were wheat-pasted all over the Village every winter.
    Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Driving over the Bay Bridge into the city, billboard after billboard advertised AI products and services.
    Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 7 Jan. 2025
Definition of advertise
Verb
  • Some of his movies are critically acclaimed; plenty have bombed, but his performances are never less than wholly committed.
    Wendell Steavenson, Vogue, 5 Jan. 2025
  • We were reminded of the many slick pleasures of this subgenre recently through Clint Eastwood’s elegant and widely acclaimed legal thriller Juror #2, with a stylish premise reminiscent of a Sidney Lumet and Otto Preminger picture.
    Tomris Laffly, TIME, 20 Dec. 2024
Definition of acclaim
Verb
  • The Baltic pipeline was blown up in an act of sabotage, but details of the attack remain murky.
    Hanna Arhirova and Joanna Kozlowska, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2025
  • Whole neighborhoods are filmed as they get blown up.
    Mosab Abu Toha, The New Yorker, 31 Dec. 2024
Definition of blow up
Verb
  • An initiative that was promoted for years as a civil-rights cause—helping poor kids in troubled schools—is threatening to become a nationwide money grab.
    Alec MacGillis, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
  • This includes promoting work-life balance, providing mental health support and implementing programs that nurture growth to ensure employees feel valued, supported and empowered.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
Definition of promote
Verb
  • Leung, 79, was detained in 2021 on trumpeted up spying charges.
    Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Hobbs traveled to the Arizona-Mexico border on Monday to trumpet her state’s National Guard work helping to crack down on smuggling of the deadly synthetic opioid into the U.S. through Nogales, Ariz..
    Anita Snow, Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov. 2024
Definition of trumpet
Verb
  • Meanwhile, ahead of the DNC’s first official candidate forum over the weekend, Minnesota state party chair Ken Martin touted more than 20 endorsements from state party leaders and DNC members in the South.
    Caroline Vakil, The Hill, 13 Jan. 2025
  • While the Energy Department touts its high-tech laboratories and research facilities, the agency’s people are equally critical to its mission.
    Margaret E. Kosal, The Conversation, 12 Jan. 2025
Definition of tout
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