PULLS UP Synonyms: 68 Similar and Opposite Words

pulls up

verb

present tense third-person singular of pull up

as in stops

to bring (something) to a standstill the jockey tried to pull up the apparently injured horse

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Recent Examples of pulls up Gunna pulls up to the opulent party in style, taking a chopper in with his love interest. — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 9 Oct. 2026 Instagram Stories remain at the top of the feed, per screenshots from Oncescu, while swiping the screen pulls up the traditional feed of posts from accounts a user follows. — Mia Sato, The Verge, 8 Oct. 2026 That’s why these conversations should begin before the moving truck pulls up. — Rob Edwards, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026 Ethan pulls up to their lush, hillside home in a new car, sleek shades, and pointy incisors glistening in the sunlight. — Siddhant Adlakha, IndieWire, 17 Sep. 2026 In the ad, Piven pulls up to a Miami mansion party in a sports car and is hassled by a bouncer. — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 8 Sep. 2026 Tommy Hilfiger himself pulls up in a taxicab — what a serendipitous coincidence! — Tom Smyth, Vulture, 1 Sep. 2026 As Ezukanma stands up and pulls up highlights of him against Fields, the man asserts that Ezukanma didn’t need to go to the hospital and was only struck once by Fields from behind. — Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 Aug. 2026 There’s a great accidental gag in a cut bit from the original MTV pilot when a deputy pulls up to arrest Knoxville and forgets to put her car in park. — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for pulls up

Verb

The New Braunfels, Texas, resident kept a frenetic touring schedule, headlining major Texas venues and mid-sized dance halls around the country, with occasional arena or amphitheater stops opening for Koe Wetzel thrown in.

— Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 25 Oct. 2026
Nighttime mouth breathing is associated with snoring, dry mouth, receding gums and sleep apnea, a disorder in which breathing stops repeatedly during sleep.

— Samantha Agate, Charlotte Observer, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of stops

Verb

Life and social structures in remote river villages are rooted in summer fish camps, where the community catches, processes, and preserves the salmon that feeds them through the winter.

— Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2026
Participants step or jump off a platform more than 40 feet above the ground, experiencing a brief moment of free fall before the rope system catches them and slowly lowers them to the ground.

— Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of catches

Verb

Santos brings up the Geese psyop allegations and asks for clarification, having only just learned about it recently.

— Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 21 Oct. 2026
While on vacation on fellow Housewife Erika Hammond’s shared private island, Radziwill brings up the files herself.

— Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of brings up

Verb

Now a salesperson can type in what a customer wants, such as products, quantities, delivery options and available discounts, and Roadrunner’s multi-agentic system draws up a customer quote in minutes.

— Richard Nieva, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
Each electric arc furnace used in steelmaking has an operating power load between 40 and 200 megawatts, and the entire US steel industry draws up to 11 gigawatts of power at peak production across all facilities.

— Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 7 July 2026

Definition of draws up

Verb

After much hemming and hawing, Diplo selects an orange flower to purchase and posts a video to his Instagram stories in which the man holds up his shopping bag printed with a website for his wares.

— Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 20 Oct. 2026
The first kind holds up under pressure, the second kind doesn’t.

— Flavio Maluf, Forbes.com, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of holds up

Verb

But scientific progress rarely stays within neat national boxes for long, even when governments would prefer it to.

— Ruby Wang, semafor.com, 27 Oct. 2026
Because the sofa reads differently when the palette around it changes, even if the sofa itself stays the same.

— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Charlotte Observer, 23 Oct. 2026