tugged

verb

Definition of tuggednext
past tense of tug
1
as in pulled
to cause to follow by applying steady force on tugged on the door until it opened

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2
as in wrought
to devote serious and sustained effort she's tugged all her life to get to where she is now in the business world

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tugged
  1. pulled
  2. hauled
  3. struggled
  4. worked
Verb
  • In the third quarter, the company pulled 29% of its earnings from its technology division.
    Brett Owens, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Law enforcement resources might be pulled from other locales to concentrate on where the suspect was last presumably seen.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
Definition of pulled
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  • Listen to this article Loading your audio article A woman who snuck aboard a Delta flight from JFK airport to Paris was hauled back to the United States on Wednesday and could face federal charges for the stowaway stunt, the Daily News has learned.
    John Annese, New York Daily News, 5 Dec. 2024
  • As depicted in the film, which uses extensive archival and more recent vérité footage to chart decades of on-again, off-again destruction, bulldozers raze a school and homes, wells are filled with cement and power generators are hauled away.
    Steve Dollar, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024
Definition of hauled
Verb
  • Based in London early in his career, Galliano struggled throughout the Eighties and early Nineties, with a succession of backers.
    Miles Socha, WWD, 11 Dec. 2024
  • And for years, boosters have struggled to offer up a satisfactory answer.
    Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 11 Dec. 2024
Definition of struggled
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  • According to public records, Mangione spent time at Stanford University in 2019 and once worked for the Santa Monica company TrueCar, a digital marketplace for automobiles.
    Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Becca Stanek has worked as an editor and writer in the personal finance space since 2017.
    Becca Stanek, theweek, 11 Dec. 2024
Definition of worked
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