as in to relinquish
to give (something) over to the control or possession of another usually under duress
finally got my brother to cough up the dough he owed me
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Recent Examples of cough up
Athena asks about what's to come of the 118, as Chimney is already coughing up blood.
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Patrick Gomez, EW.com, 11 Apr. 2025
Breathing in the spores causes Aspergillosis, a potentially fatal lung disease marked by headache, fatigue, coughing up blood, and in some cases, can spread throughout the body.
—Cara Lynn Shultz, People.com, 6 May 2025
Signs and symptoms include a cough that lasts for three weeks or longer, coughing up blood or phlegm, chest pain, weakness, fatigue, weight loss, loss of appetite, fever, chills and night sweats, according to the CDC.
—Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 30 Apr. 2025
The Context Reports have been ongoing about an unidentified virus, centred in Moscow, that causes patients to cough up blood and suffer from prolonged high fever.
—Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Apr. 2025
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Patrick Gomez, EW.com, 11 Apr. 2025
Breathing in the spores causes Aspergillosis, a potentially fatal lung disease marked by headache, fatigue, coughing up blood, and in some cases, can spread throughout the body.
—Cara Lynn Shultz, People.com, 6 May 2025
Signs and symptoms include a cough that lasts for three weeks or longer, coughing up blood or phlegm, chest pain, weakness, fatigue, weight loss, loss of appetite, fever, chills and night sweats, according to the CDC.
—Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 30 Apr. 2025
The Context Reports have been ongoing about an unidentified virus, centred in Moscow, that causes patients to cough up blood and suffer from prolonged high fever.
—Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cough up
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Despite bipartisan and nearly unequivocal support for Gypsum Canyon in the intervening four years, Agran has refused to relinquish his goal of completing a veterans cemetery in Irvine.—
Jonathan Horwitz,
Oc Register,
28 May 2025
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Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people to a South Carolina museum devoted to African American history as part of a settlement with one of the subjects’ descendants.—
Leah Willingham,
Christian Science Monitor,
28 May 2025
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In fact, without the ocean as a natural buffer, climate change would have already rendered our planet uninhabitable.—
Jenna DiPaolo,
Sun Sentinel,
1 June 2025
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From Feed Hygiene to Discovery Advantage Unlike traditional search ads that appear alongside blue links, AI search ads will be rendered inside conversational answers themselves.—
Kiri Masters,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2025
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Calvin Faucher surrendered six runs without securing a single out and Lake Bachar gave up three more as the Cubs posted eight runs on eight hits in the decisive sixth inning of a 14-1 Marlins’ loss at loanDepot park.—
Steve Gorten,
Miami Herald,
21 May 2025
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In many prison camps, the lowest level of security in the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), cell phones are so prevalent that those who recently surrender can have one within days of arriving on the compound.—
Walter Pavlo,
Forbes.com,
21 May 2025
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Satellites can now deliver frequent, high-resolution (30 cm) imagery, enhanced with change detection algorithms.—
Abhishek Singh,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2025
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The steel ladder frame and sliding-pillar front suspension are as primitive as a stone axe, but do the job, and few cars deliver the tactile steering response afforded by the featherweight Plus 8.—
Robert Ross,
Robb Report,
30 May 2025
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“Cough up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cough%20up. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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