- present participle of pull.
pulling
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Livieri, 55, is one of a handful of biologists pulling night shifts across the Great Plains to save the black-footed ferret from extinction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026
Candidates spent the weekend crisscrossing their states and pulling in surrogates to make a final push for voters still on the fence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026
Shirt pulling is not in itself an automatic foul.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026
Another potential bonus would be a pulling forward of investment and M&A activity to beat a shift in policy in 2028.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026
All eight of us pulling at her with the bell rope, like tug-of-war.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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