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View definitions for pull for

pull for

verb as in back up

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Yet other platforms appeared to exert little pull for many researchers.

The bar still retained its magnetic pull for celebrities though, hosting wrap parties for Love Island and Celebrity Big Brother and employing so-called "Sugar Hut Honeys" to pull the crowds in.

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He got into an awful position trying to pull Lahiru Kumara and skied a pull for only five, leaving his place on England's winter tours in jeopardy.

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On the first day of the second Test against Sri Lanka at Lord's, Pope was caught off an ugly pull for only one - a shot that former England captain Sir Alastair Cook said was "one of a guy who was on 120".

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Almost all of the England batters were to blame for their own downfalls, including makeshift opener Dan Lawrence, caught behind walking down the pitch for nine, and stand-in captain Ollie Pope, who was caught off an ugly pull for only one.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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