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Recent Examples of Synonyms for limbering (up)
Verb
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Frightened by the thought of breaking in your jeans?—
Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 21 Oct. 2025
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Settling Manning down — as well as a host of inexperienced starters on offense that includes breaking in four guys on the O-line — would go a long way toward Texas looking like the team that came into this season with such lofty expectations.—
Verb
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Police would definitely have their hands full enforcing that.—
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The green fee was also supposed to apply to cruises and their passengers, too, which makes up a large part of the Hawaii tourism scene, but a federal judge recently blocked Hawaii from enforcing the levy on the floating behemoths, according to CBS.—
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From that vantage point, the economy appears to move past each disruption in turn, reinforcing the idea that these are temporary events.—
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The projects are expected to provide thousands of construction jobs and hundreds of long-term operational jobs while reinforcing the American nuclear supply chain.—
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“Limbering (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/limbering%20%28up%29. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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