gears up

verb

present tense third-person singular of gear up
as in boots (up)

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gears up
  1. mounts
  2. schools
  3. braces
  4. prepares
  5. fortifies
  6. instructs
  7. educates
  8. gathers
Verb
  • As Venezuela reels from twin quakes that killed more than 2,295 people, acting leader Delcy Rodríguez mounts her first defense of the response.
    — Regina Garcia Cano, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2026
  • As evidence mounts that up to 500,000 civilians inside El-Obeid are in grave danger—facing the risk of serious human rights abuses—an urgent debate took place at the UN Human Rights Council.
    — Janine di Giovanni, Vanity Fair, 3 July 2026
Definition of mounts
Verb
  • Baltimore County's Board of Education named the former Anne Arundel County schools Chief Operating Officer (COO) as its next superintendent, officials announced Monday.
    — JT Moodee Lockman, CBS News, 22 June 2026
  • There are people doing the hard work that schools such as Hi-Mount require.
    — Alan J. Borsuk, jsonline.com, 12 June 2026
Definition of schools
Verb
  • Paris — As France braces for another heatwave, it’s barely recovered from the last one.
    — CNN Money, CNN Money, 7 July 2026
  • An extreme heat warning issued by the National Weather Service for the Pittsburgh area will enter a second day as the region braces for temperatures in the 90s and an impending heat wave.
    — Mike Darnay, CBS News, 1 July 2026
Definition of braces
Verb
  • As the country prepares to mark its semiquincentennial, or 250th birthday, the splashiest celebrations in Washington are being shaped by corporate money.
    — Luke Fountain, CNBC, 3 July 2026
  • Guilherme Passos monitors and prepares Brazil’s national team for extreme heat as a sport scientist at the Brazilian Football Federation.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 3 July 2026
Definition of prepares
Verb
  • Inside, soy proteins repair and strengthen, copper peptides stimulate keratin production–aka the protein that fortifies and minimizes frizz–and pro-B vitamins amplify fullness.
    — Ellie Davis, Vogue, 25 June 2026
  • The Olive and June product can also be applied daily to bare nails as an intensive strengthening treatment that not only fortifies your claws, but also repairs ridges, discoloration, and pesky peeling along the way.
    — Kyra Surgent, InStyle, 3 June 2026
Definition of fortifies
Verb
  • The commission resolution, approved June 26 with Commissioner Miguel Gabela absent, instructs City Attorney George Wysong to explore legal avenues to blunt Live Local’s impact on the city, including potentially suing the state.
    — Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 1 July 2026
  • In addition, the memo instructs the EPA to consider easing some civil enforcement against people who repair their own vehicles in good faith and restore them to their original operating condition.
    — Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 June 2026
Definition of instructs
Verb
  • On the continent is an elite war college that educates healers, soldiers, scribes, and — most famously — dragon riders.
    — Janey Wetzel, PEOPLE, 30 June 2026
  • Texas, which educates roughly 1 in 10 of the nation's public school students, has been at the forefront of a charge by conservatives to incorporate more religion into classrooms.
    — JAMIE STENGLE, Arkansas Online, 27 June 2026
Definition of educates
Verb
  • America's 250th birthday is bringing on an unprecedented celebration as the nation gathers to mark the semiquincentennial of the United States.
    — Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 4 July 2026
  • Good morning and welcome to The Downshift, or TDS for short, The Drive‘s news roundup that gathers the biggest automotive headlines from around the globe.
    — Adam Ismail, The Drive, 1 July 2026
Definition of gathers
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