send up
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The eldest, Nancy, would send up the family and their friends in works of comic fiction.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026
Oil prices slipped after President Trump said Venezuela will send up to 50 million barrels of oil to the U.S.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 7, 2026
The movie managed to both celebrate and send up the fashion industry at the same time.
From BBC • Jul. 2, 2025
One could read this strange, extraneous sight as Perkins’ attempt to send up our macabre fixation with death, rubbernecking at gruesome sights we should want to turn away from.
From Salon • Feb. 21, 2025
The military band was playing and the crowd was massed on the far side of the square where the fireworks specialist and his son were trying to send up fire balloons.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
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