boot (up)

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Verb
  • Resistance training during daylight hours appears to prime a stronger growth hormone response at night.
    Allison Palmer, Miami Herald, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Resistance training appears to prime a stronger growth hormone pulse at night, stacking your daytime workout with overnight repair.
    Allison Palmer, Sacbee.com, 29 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Terracycle, a recycling company with a major distribution center in Aurora, will also be on-site to educate the community about waste diversion and creating a zero-carbon footprint, according to the news release.
    Aurora Beacon-News, Chicago Tribune, 28 Apr. 2026
  • At the heart of this is also the aim to create an ecosystem for young filmmakers – one that empowers and educates them on the importance of marketing and distribution so that great stories don’t just get made, but truly reach audiences.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 28 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Report authors Illinois' high ranking in 3-year-old enrollment is a result of most states not having schooling for 3-year-olds to begin with.
    Adam Harrington, CBS News, 23 Apr. 2026
  • He was likely schooled locally, studying Latin and classical writers such as Ovid and Virgil.
    Gitanjali Roy, Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Gun smoke filled the air over the South Lawn after a 21 gun salute and hung in the air as those with seats near the front of the ceremony were instructed to sit down.
    Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Hitters, no doubt instructed by their teams and aware of this new shift, have been taking more pitches.
    Ian Miller OutKick, FOXNews.com, 29 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • His elite pass protection and calm feet mean he can be trusted immediately to keep the quarterback clean on passing downs, while also providing a high-effort presence on special teams.
    Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Betting/odds, ticketing and streaming links in this article are provided by partners of The Athletic.
    Data Skrive, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • The 73-year-old Weinstein kept his eyes trained on Mann throughout her Tuesday testimony, intermittently whispering to his attorney, Teny Geragos.
    Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 29 Apr. 2026
  • The soldiers trained on both the Bumblebee V1, a small, first-person-view drone that has seen thousands of combat flights in Ukraine, and the newer Bumblebee V2, which has automatic target recognition specifically meant to counter other drones and which has not been deployed yet.
    Eleanor Watson, CBS News, 28 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • 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
  • 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
Verb
  • The curators supply a historical backdrop, therefore, but discreetly, and without distracting us from Wright’s poetic originality.
    Julian Bell, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Hyundai will supply its HiMSEN engines Data centers are the backbone of modern digital services, from cloud computing to artificial intelligence applications.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 25 Apr. 2026
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“Boot (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boot%20%28up%29. Accessed 1 May. 2026.

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