- present participle of pull.
pulling
Example Sentences
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Investors put the brakes on that advance today, with shares in both pulling back premarket.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026
"This will feel like something pulling through the arch of your foot," she says.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026
But we still have plenty of choices, and they’re not between building a bunker or pulling the plug.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026
However, that exuberance has waned somewhat, as a prolonged Middle East conflict, inflation concerns and lofty AI valuations have fueled sharp market swings, leading to the postponement or pulling of a number of notable deals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026
But somewhere beyond lay the thing that had called to him from his first Den, pulling him on...
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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