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Recent Examples of gear up
The Mountaineering Club geared up to ascend and meet the distressed party.
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Cassidy Randall, Rolling Stone, 2 Mar. 2025
Welcome to March, when Southern Californians start gearing up for colorful wildflower displays blanketing our deserts and hills.
—Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2025
Meanwhile, South Florida Islamic centers and mosques are gearing up for the holiday by preparing for prayer services and making catering arrangements for ‘Iftar’ dinners — or the celebratory meal where Muslims break their daily fast.
—Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 28 Feb. 2025
The cuts come as hundreds of national parks, which serve more than 325 million visitors annually, are gearing up for the summer — typically their busiest season.
—Zoe Sottile, CNN, 24 Feb. 2025
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Cassidy Randall, Rolling Stone, 2 Mar. 2025
Welcome to March, when Southern Californians start gearing up for colorful wildflower displays blanketing our deserts and hills.
—Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2025
Meanwhile, South Florida Islamic centers and mosques are gearing up for the holiday by preparing for prayer services and making catering arrangements for ‘Iftar’ dinners — or the celebratory meal where Muslims break their daily fast.
—Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 28 Feb. 2025
The cuts come as hundreds of national parks, which serve more than 325 million visitors annually, are gearing up for the summer — typically their busiest season.
—Zoe Sottile, CNN, 24 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gear up
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With questions mounting over Arsenal’s capacity to create high-quality chances, the ‘Odescoop’ has become a source of both wonderment and frustration.—
Jordan Campbell,
The Athletic,
14 Mar. 2025
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Worries have mounted in recent months that the company is falling behind some competitors and losing its advantage in generative AI.—
Jordan Novet,Samantha Subin,
CNBC,
13 Mar. 2025
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Europe and the United States must steel themselves for a long and painful process.—
Wolfgang Ischinger,
Foreign Affairs,
2 Mar. 2025
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The speaker here is one of those men — summoning his courage in the face of terror, steeling himself for the unimaginable.—
A.O. Scott,
New York Times,
21 Feb. 2025
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What hope had been fortified in the first half Wednesday had faded by the second.—
Houston Mitchell,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Mar. 2025
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Meanwhile, rising seas on Alaska's shoreline have forced the Pentagon to fortify radar sites.—
Elizabeth Weise,
USA TODAY,
11 Mar. 2025
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The nonprofit sector should leverage this potential wealth transfer by investing time in educating donors about the importance of unrestricted gifts.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes,
19 Mar. 2025
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The state agencies charged with addressing hard drug addiction and the safe use of cannabis are failing to educate the public as to the dangers of drug use.—
Howard Husock,
New York Daily News,
19 Mar. 2025
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The comedian, 42, joked that his dad has been schooling him on proper Emmy etiquette ever since the trophy arrived.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
11 Mar. 2025
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She’s been schooled by her encounter with the darkness.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
8 Mar. 2025
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But lower interest rates can also push inflation upward, and U.S. consumers have already begun bracing for higher inflation because of tariffs.—
Stan Choe,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Mar. 2025
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And Ubisoft appears to be bracing for that, post-launch.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes,
18 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Weldon’s position on vaccines aligns more or less with Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, who appears to be readying the CDC for changes in vaccine policies.—
Joshua P. Cohen,
Forbes,
14 Mar. 2025
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One day later, on March 12, Gov. Gavin Newsom banned gatherings of more than 250 people and began readying state and local governments to commandeer hotels for treatment, building on his March 4 state of emergency.—
Andrew Keatts,
Axios,
10 Mar. 2025
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Did both sides not set staffers aside after the call to prepare an identical readout of what was agreed?—
Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN,
18 Mar. 2025
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What was the process like in terms of preparing for that role?—
Nicole Fell,
The Hollywood Reporter,
18 Mar. 2025
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“Gear up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gear%20up. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.
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