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pimping

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verb

present participle of pimp

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for pimping
Adjective
  • Ever since, however, TCU has started three wings alongside Van Lith and Sedona Prince, once again making the fifth-year senior the nominal point guard.
    Sabreena Merchant, The Athletic, 20 Jan. 2025
  • The object of their largesse was an obscure nonprofit called the Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation which, for the better part of two decades, had quietly helped firefighters by raising funds for equipment — often things as nominal as gloves and flashlights — not covered in the city budget.
    David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • That slight warming trend is expected to continue Friday, when high temperatures reach the upper 30s, with lows in the upper teens.
    Matt Hubbard, Baltimore Sun, 19 Jan. 2025
  • The snow started falling Sunday afternoon, with a slight mix of hail.
    Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 19 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Kohli, so technically assured during his astounding career, has developed a major weakness outside off-stump and Australia's unrelenting seamers are exploiting this.
    Tristan Lavalette, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
  • Authorities have said migrants are especially vulnerable to abuse, such as in the case of a Highland Park woman charged with eight counts of human trafficking after allegedly exploiting four immigrants in early 2024.
    Joseph States, Chicago Tribune, 26 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Organized theft is no petty crime; these are not one-off crimes of desperation or a mom lifting a can of formula to feed her baby.
    Cailey Locklair, Baltimore Sun, 27 Jan. 2025
  • In November 2023, Pryer filed a motion to terminate her remaining two years of probation based on a recent court ruling which held that a defendant convicted of a single petty offense may not be sentenced to both imprisonment and probation.
    Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 22 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Related to both is a program of using challenges to solve real-world complex problems.
    Roger Trapp, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
  • The Deadline international team has pooled its thoughts using a pretty loose methodology to define success.
    Jake Kanter, Deadline, 24 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Then, the pandemic reduced the schedule to 60 games and Eddie got a piddling 37%.
    Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 3 Dec. 2020
  • Millions of additional claims are expected to stream in from around the country over the coming weeks, while hiring remains piddling.
    Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2020
Verb
  • The majority is manipulating a personal tragedy to scapegoat immigrants.
    Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Stop motion is so time-consuming — days of manipulating puppets one frame at a time for a few seconds of footage — that no animator wants to do reshoots.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 7 Jan. 2025
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