RIGGED (UP) Synonyms: 89 Similar and Opposite Words

rigged (up)

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Definition of rigged (up)

past tense of rig (up)

as in cooked (up)

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The 24-time Grand Slam champion appeared to suffer a cramp in his left foot, threw up, and took a medical time-out to have his back massaged between the fourth and fifth sets before losing to Argentine player Mariano Navone.

— Aaron Short, Curbed, 3 Sep. 2026
Her little sister Adira threw up her own mini peace sign, posing in a blue dress with flowers.

— Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 3 Sep. 2026

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Vucic’s ousting shows the downside of that approach, as the whole relationship will have to be rebuilt from the ground up.

— Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 27 Oct. 2026
Nothing was stable, every framework was being rebuilt in real time and the only thing that separated functional teams from struggling ones was behavioral reliability under extreme ambiguity.

— Amy Alexy, Forbes.com, 26 Oct. 2026

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By stringing multiple kill dates of moss samples taken from different spots, scientists reconstructed a map of an advancing ice margin.

— Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 24 Oct. 2026
The team reconstructed the evolutionary history of GxpS, the enzyme that produces GameXPeptides, to investigate how different peptide structures evolved.

— Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2026

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rigged (up)

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