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View definitions for stir up

stir up

verb as in awake

verb as in churn

verb as in fan

verb as in roil

verb as in set

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Police robots, for example, have occasionally stirred up fears about surveillance and the potential for lethal force.

Christian Pulisic stirred up controversy by not playing for the U.S. in the Gold Cup.

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The Bishop of Birmingham Michael Volland said he felt they "had the potential to generate anxiety and stir up division" and "feed into a harmful narrative that provides fuel for a fire of toxic nationalism".

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“Uncertainties that usually stir up cross currents, even those are being ignored” by bonds, Goncalves said.

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These winds stir up dust into swirling columns called dust devils—rotating plumes of air and fine particles that sweep across the Martian surface.

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

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