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made-up

[meyd-uhp] / ˈmeɪdˈʌp /


made up




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After 120 minutes of action, you’re tied up against our made-up team and the match is heading to penalties.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 7, 2026

Talarico might as well throw some weird made-up insinuations at Paxton to keep up.

From Slate May 30, 2026

These kind-hearted acts of closure were performed both for the benefit of these very real, made-up people, and for We the Viewers, who have made them our family.

From Los Angeles Times May 29, 2026

Slop shows up as a made-up citation in a legal filing.

From Barron's May 6, 2026

My made-up last name finally came to me.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd

It was almost as though that approach was such a failure it made up Tuchel's mind, that England had to fully rely on Kane.

From BBC Jul. 18, 2026

After removing duplicates of stocks in two or more of the groups, our initial list was made up of 523 stocks.

From MarketWatch Jul. 17, 2026

Global consumers have made up for the gap by pulling down inventories, but they will eventually run low.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

Instead, it could be made up of particles with different masses.

From Science Daily Jul. 14, 2026

It’s sort of like...your body is made up of a zillion individual cells, but they all work together to form a single Tangled Stitches.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows




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