limbered (up)

past tense of limber (up)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for limbered (up)
Verb
  • News of the Melania doc first broke in January.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The pregnancy news first broke in October 2024, during an episode of The Love Seat podcast hosted by Lauren and Cameron.
    Jane LaCroix, PEOPLE, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • According to The Times, payment of the notional rent would only be enforced if Andrew failed to maintain the property's refurbishment.
    Edward Segarra, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
  • But some of the proposals have already been enacted, the newspaper noted, including cutting refugee admissions and proritizing Afrikaners, the white minority who created and enforced South Africa’s system of apartheid.
    Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Steven Adler published an analysis showing that ChatGPT repeatedly and falsely reinforced one man’s delusions and psychological distress.
    Diane Brady, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The universal love is the applause, either heard in person or received from afar, a love reinforced by the sense of an instant, intimate family—a life backstage or in the trailer, far more interesting than the often unhappy family left behind.
    Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
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“Limbered (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/limbered%20%28up%29. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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