Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for boot (up)
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Research shows these early exposures prime the immune system to recognize outside invaders for life.—
Matt Fuchs, Scientific American, 15 Apr. 2026
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Downtown Los Angeles residents, businesses and other city boosters want to try to prime the pump, using a program like San Francisco’s to help small businesses take over vacant storefronts and turn the lights back on, said Cassy Horton, co-founder of the Downtown Residents Assn.— Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2026
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SciAm always educates and delights me, and inspires a sense of awe for our vast, beautiful universe.— Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 21 Apr. 2026
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The researchers also found that being young, female, and well educated increased the odds that someone would be moist averse, as did being disgusted more generally by bodily functions.— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 Apr. 2026
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Or was everyone present sufficiently schooled in Vermeer’s symbolic array?— Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
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Campus founder Tade Oyerinde will school us on new models for education.— Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2026
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In an early rehabilitation session, Sky director of health and human performance Jess Cohen instructed Vandersloot to attempt a simple mobility test by standing against a wall, raising onto the balls of her feet and attempting to squat down a few degrees.— Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 21 Apr. 2026
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When Flight 507 aborted the landing as a precaution, the plane was instructed to turn right, in the direction of the other jet that was taking off.— Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 20 Apr. 2026
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Mount Carmel pitcher Jake Matise received a piece of information Friday morning that provided him with some extra focus and motivation to take into his start later in the afternoon.— Steve Millar, Chicago Tribune, 18 Apr. 2026
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Inter Miami provides the best challenge and litmus test yet.— Braidon Nourse, Denver Post, 18 Apr. 2026
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In North America, the sprawling server farms used to train and run artificial intelligence models received a $47 billion investment surge last year, building out everything from cooling equipment to plumbing.— Tristan Bove, Fortune, 21 Apr. 2026
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Morris Kiruga, the writer and journalist behind the exposé, is a good-humored man in his mid-thirties who trained as a forensic scientist.— Hettie O'Brien, The Dial, 21 Apr. 2026
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Yiwu's factories normally gear up in the spring to make sure that their products are on store shelves for the Christmas shopping season.— Eunice Yoon, CNBC, 20 Apr. 2026
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Husband and wife duo Katie Lowes and Adam Shapiro gear up for a night on the town at Teen Beat Live | 80s Movie Mixtape at CineVita at Hollywood Park by SoFi Stadium.— Katie Hill, PEOPLE, 16 Apr. 2026
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In July of 2024, as fighting raged in Khartoum, a Sudanese weapons broker WhatsApped Mafi to contract a shipment of Qods Mohajer-6 drones — the same ones Iran has long supplied Russia in its war in Ukraine, according to the complaint.— Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2026
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For decades, Indian Point operated 24/7 and supplied roughly 2,000 megawatts of carbon-free electricity around the clock — through heat waves, blizzards, and everything in between.— Nicole Malliotakis, New York Daily News, 19 Apr. 2026
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“Boot (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.grautoblog.com/thesaurus/boot%20%28up%29. Accessed 23 Apr. 2026.
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