FETCHES UP Synonyms: 68 Similar and Opposite Words

fetches up

verb

present tense third-person singular of fetch up

as in stops

to bring (something) to a standstill the driver fetched up the horse-drawn carriage in front of the church

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Turning off Save Media stops Google from saving media from future Search interactions to your Search Services History.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 24 Aug. 2026
When every team has access to the same tools, producing more of anything stops being an advantage.

— Rhett Power, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2026

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Keith arrests our thinking, and cons us into suppressing our critical faculties with the same kind of internalized surveillance that philosopher Michel Foucault broke down to describe a prison’s use of the panopticon in Discipline and Punish.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 19 May 2026
Devlin throws a punch at Stone when the chief arrests him for drunken driving.

— Sandra Dallas, Denver Post, 19 Apr. 2026

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The effect essentially gives Roman a parking spot in space, enabling engineers on Earth to remain in constant contact with the telescope, while making sure Earth never blocks its view of the cosmos.

— Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 30 Aug. 2026
If the teams refuse to enroll the players who benefit from the TRO, those players could petition Hoffman to clarify that his order also blocks the SEC from punishing schools.

— Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 29 Aug. 2026

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Now a salesperson can type in what a customer wants, such as products, quantities, delivery options and available discounts, and Roadrunner’s multi-agentic system draws up a customer quote in minutes.

— Richard Nieva, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
Each electric arc furnace used in steelmaking has an operating power load between 40 and 200 megawatts, and the entire US steel industry draws up to 11 gigawatts of power at peak production across all facilities.

— Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 7 July 2026

Definition of draws up

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North Dakota State checks both boxes, while Sacramento State enters with a more modest profile.

— Giovanni Malloy, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026
What started as an unnecessary, but precautionary full-body MRI that checks for more than 500 conditions ended up saving Philipps’ life.

— Isabelle Farina, Variety, 26 Aug. 2026

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