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plugging

adjective as in sedulous

noun as in hype

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On Tuesday, just two days before the planned listing, regulators in Shanghai pulled the plug, at least temporarily.

From Fortune

After receiving the notice, Ant Group, reading the writing on the wall, pulled the plug on its Hong Kong listing.

From Fortune

With an 800-volt fast charger, it can pull enough current for 100 miles of driving after just 10 minutes on the plug.

South Africa is now putting the electrical plugs and sockets the nation has relied on for generations on the road to retirement.

From Quartz

You’d be out a nice chunk of change had you pulled the plug back then.

From Fortune

Hundreds of millions of people were accustomed to toting these objects around, plugging them in to recharge them, and using them.

When the revolution comes, Suze Orman will likely be plugging away on CNBC, giving the same old financial advice.

While Washington dithers over Benghazi, AP-gate, and the IRS, advocates for immigrants just keep plugging along.

That means plugging the holes in our immigration and visa system.

The truth, which is that the Republic will probably keep plugging along no matter who is in office, does not.

As the old Turks kept plugging it in fairly hot, I sat quiet in Birdwood's dugout for a quarter of an hour.

He was plugging the hole himself with a mixture of butter and cow dung which he was poking in with a stick!

Now and then I'd come across a little pop-gun pistol, just about right for plugging teeth with, which I'd throw out the window.

While he was speaking my companion busied himself in carefully plugging up the hole in the rock.

It is time for another senator, and who do you suppose is plugging for it, and opening hogsheads of money?

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

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