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pulling

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Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. pull, pullingnoun

    the act of pulling; applying force to move something toward or with you

    "the pull up the hill had him breathing harder"; "his strenuous pulling strained his back"

    Synonyms:
    pull, puff, twist, wrench, drag, clout

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  1. List of paraphrases for "pulling":

    tirant, withdrawing

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Words popularity by usage frequency

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#3810pull
#6613drag
#7835twist
#9312pulling
#17309wrench
#18108puff
#26509withdrawing
#34187clout
#307580tirant

How to use pulling in a sentence?

  1. Jonathan Stewart:

    Because it’s pulling on the pipe, you create these bending stresses in the pipe, which could eventually become large enough that they rupture it.

  2. Ryan McKinley:

    I am not one for pulling downstatuesor effacing the evidence of history – even if that history is one we would like to forget, he said. But it’s good that it’s not entirely effacing the past, and perhaps [the museum is] as good a place as any for it. this effort has been a years-long process by many different parties through students and staff.

  3. James McAuley:

    They're pulling all the stops out for Port Talbot. It's too late for us.

  4. Todd Rosenbluth:

    It's not a huge surprise that they saw big inflows since the fund has a great track record, a seasoned team and it is one of the high priority funds at BlackRock in terms of sales and distribution, the question is why are people pulling money out of unconstrained bond funds as a category at a time when you would think they would want them.

  5. Charles Foundyller of Daratech, from 8/14/92 Wall St Journal:

    Everyone realized that Computervision stock was the golden goose. But one grabbed the leg, another grabbed a wing, another got the neck, all pulling hard, and they realize now they could kill the goose if they keep this up.


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