stood up

past tense of stand up
as in flew
to withstand scrutiny and gain acceptance or approval a hypothesis that won't stand up to close analysis

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Recent Examples of stood up Johnny Cash stood up against the Vietnam War and stood up for Native Americans, and country music wouldn’t play him. — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2026 Hill stood up and confronted Wilson immediately face-to-face before ordering him to go back to the huddle. — Scott Thompson Outkick, FOXNews.com, 8 Oct. 2026 Neither partnership seems to have been publicly announced, though the NIH has already stood up an effort to build Medicare and Medicaid databases within the NIH in an effort to better understand autism. — Brittany Trang, STAT, 29 Sep. 2026 The hockey star stayed down on the ice for a few moments as teammates huddled around him, and Faber eventually stood up and skated off the ice on his own. — Natasha Dye, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2026 David Montgomery was stood up at the line of scrimmage and the Texans' offense turned it over on downs. — Jonathan M. Alexander, Houston Chronicle, 27 Sep. 2026 No one stood up, and then there was nobody left to speak for me. — ABC News, 20 Sep. 2026 At the end of Tuesday’s news conference featuring several local leaders, KNBC reporter Robert Kovacik, who was kneeling in the front row out of sight from the cameras, stood up and leaned over the tape line. — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2026 Thomas, who is Jewish, said that then a man stood up at the meeting and gave a Nazi salute, shouting Heil Hitler. — Livi Stanford, Hartford Courant, 15 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stood up
Verb
  • According to court filings, Seaver previously worked for private military contractors and later provided security for Parton and her properties through his company, Squadron Augmented Protection Services (SAPS), which is also a party to the lawsuit.
    — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Room for Disagreement Collins has opposed Trump on upwards of a half-dozen major initiatives and worked behind the scenes to temper him on multiple other occasions.
    — Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 6 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Some query categories held up better than others, and Google’s own AI Overviews absorbed a chunk of the behavior Gartner expected to leave the ecosystem entirely.
    — Gaetano Romeo, Forbes.com, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Synonym cannot help but feel slight when held up to No More Water.
    — David Harris, SPIN, 6 Oct. 2026

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“Stood up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stood%20up. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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