Bring up and Drop

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Bring up verb - To bring to maturity through care and education.

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Drop and bring up are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Drop" instead a verb "Bring up".

Drop verb - To make reference to or speak about briefly but specifically.

Usage example: he would ever so “casually” drop the names of celebrities he knew personally

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Bring up and drop are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Bring up" instead a verb "Drop".

Nearby Words: dropped, dropping, droplet, dropout, dropper

Miss Lebowski has a whole conversation about how men are uncomfortable with the word vagina and yet bring up variations on the word penis at the drop of a hat.

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If you didn't press the D-pad just right, you could drop your weapon or bring up an in-game menu.

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Sluggy Freelance has been known to bring up weird plots and abruptly drop them, at least some of which (such as the "outside time" arc) were Day in the Limelight plots that fans weren't particularly keen on.

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