PULLED Synonyms: 64 Similar and Opposite Words

pulled

verb

Definition of pulled

past tense of pull

as in hauled

to cause to follow by applying steady force on a team of horses pulling a heavy wagon

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as in yanked

to draw out by force or with effort the dentist had to struggle to pull the tooth

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as in stretched

to injure by overuse, misuse, or pressure lift the crate carefully, or you'll pull a muscle

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Recent Examples of pulled Our shopping editors have done the wandering for you and pulled the furniture deals worth acting on before midnight, with some marked down by more than 50%. — Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 7 Oct. 2026 Nick Pivetta yielded two runs and five hits while pitching into the fifth for the Padres, and Dustin May got pulled abruptly with a 1-0 count on Bogaerts and a runner aboard in the fourth. — ABC News, 7 Oct. 2026 Mortgage rates pulled back slightly this week, according to a separate survey from Mortgage News Daily. — Diana Olick, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2026 One out later, Freeman pulled his 18th career postseason homer to right field for a 3-0 lead. — CBS News, 7 Oct. 2026 In the same week, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman unveiled Dots, the company pulled its latest AI model and delayed its IPO due to existential safety concerns around the very same AI agent tech. — Amy O’Brien, Vogue, 6 Oct. 2026 However, following a string of violent political incidents, most notably the assassination of Charlie Kirk on September 10, 2025, Apple TV silently pulled the show from its release schedule mere days before it was set to premiere. — Isabella Albaig, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2026 At the start of the new school year, Harry and Meghan pulled their kids, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, from their initial school because of security risks with the daily commute. — Allison Degrushe, StyleCaster, 30 Sep. 2026 Wilson escalated then marched toward the spectator until teammates and officials pulled her back. — Alejandro Avila , Jackson Thompson Outkick, FOXNews.com, 30 Sep. 2026

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Verb

The capsule recovery was quick, with it being hauled up onto a SpaceX vessel in less than an hour.

— Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2026
On Monday, workers hauled out a 200-pound piece of equipment that was ruined by the saltwater and sand carried in on the high tides.

— Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of hauled

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Every belt buckle looks freshly yanked off the rack; every speck of signage resembles something painted 45 minutes before filming commenced that day.

— Michael Phillips, Variety, 8 Oct. 2026
After Lopez says something to the officers, he is yanked to the ground and punched repeatedly.

— Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of yanked

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With the militia stretched thin, Riyadh sees an opportunity to defeat it or force it back to negotiations.

— Faisal J. Abbas, semafor.com, 9 Oct. 2026
By Wednesday afternoon, the line for visitor passes to get on base for the ship’s homecoming stretched several hundred feet, snaking across the lawn in front of the building and doubling back on itself.

— Maxwell Adler, Vanity Fair, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of stretched

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In that case, too, Erica and Peter not only lived nine months rent-free in the apartment until, as the case dragged on, a judge ordered them to start paying for use of the space, but Erica also criticized the conditions there.

— Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 8 Oct. 2026
The Department of Homeland Security initially said the agent was dragged by Villegas Gonzalez' vehicle and then shot Villegas Gonzalez in self-defense.

— ABC News, ABC News, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of dragged

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The wind tugged and shook the bomber, but the pilot held her steady.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2026
But already the thought tugged at me that the scales that had turned were not celestial, but legal, the workings of the same system condemned in the camp as corrupt and broken.

— J. B. MacKinnon, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of tugged

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Allegations quickly emerged that DeepSeek had trained R1 in part on responses extracted from OpenAI’s models.

— Peter Hall, Scientific American, 7 Oct. 2026
Sergio Cremisini, an expert in digital forensic evidence, who extracted information from Sierra’s phone in 2012, 2018 and 2026.

— Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 6 Oct. 2026