BULL PENS Synonyms: 51 Similar and Opposite Words

bull pens

noun

plural of bull pen

as in big houses

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Noun

Boomers stayed in the workforce longer than expected, retired later, and held on to big houses as starter homes disappeared beneath them.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 9 June 2026
However, a lot of big houses have been built on smallish lots.

— Richard Dahlberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Mar. 2026

Definition of big houses

Noun

In May, at the manufacturing facility, which stores thousands of gallons of toxic chemicals in pressurized tanks used to produce materials such as plexiglass for fighter jet and commercial aircraft windows, one tank threatened to leak or explode.

— Nilesh Christopher, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2026
But faced with the quantity and quality of Soviet tanks in the East, and British-American tanks in the West, the tank’s purpose became the achievement of total battlefield supremacy.

— Matthew S Williams, Interesting Engineering, 20 May 2026

Definition of tanks

Noun

Use bulb cages or buried layers of hardware cloth to repel rodents, and try adding tree guards and fencing to fend off larger animals.

— Abby Monteil, The Spruce, 28 Oct. 2026
In 2018, reporters visited the Ursula detention center in South Texas, an old warehouse housing hundreds of children in a series of cages bound by metal fencing.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of cages

Noun

New approach to missile deployment Traditional vertical launch systems provide warships with an integrated way to fire missiles from onboard launch cells.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 28 Oct. 2026
The side effect of being able to reduce the risk of cancerous skin cells and potentially prevent future skin cancers is a definite bonus as well.

— Norah O'Donnell, CBS News, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of cells

Noun

By 1941, Thyssen tried to flee from the Nazis, but was caught and sent to the Sachsenhausen and Dachau concentration camps.

— Hikmat Mohammed, ARTnews.com, 28 Sep. 2026
In the 1930s, the Nazi government used a variety of forms of public data including tax returns and census records to help identify Jews who would be rounded up and sent to concentration camps where millions were killed.

— Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of concentration camps

Noun

None of my companions, mostly ocean-curious thirty-something Californians from the Bay and beyond, have been urchin foraging before, but their coolers and bags are soon brimming.

— Joseph Ogilvy, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Oct. 2026
The counter under the sushi display coolers has exposed wood.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of coolers

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