to pull in
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3.5
- phrasal verb
- /pʊl ɪn/
:
atraer
- Excellent researchers who pulled in grant money and published in refereed journals became tenured and won reduced teaching loads.
- pull in viewers
- pull in customers
- pull in a crowd
And it's pulled in a large number of people.
- And it's pulled in a large number of people.
- Just when I thought I was out, they pulled me back in.
- Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.
- But then they tend to mistreat people pretty soon after they pull them in.
- I do like pink sparkles, so the packaging somewhat pulls me in.
- The problems inherent in a story like that are your old habits come back and try to pull you back in.
- And people can also be very insecure when people they know start improving themselves and they start trying to pull him back in.
- It's it's also the drug that can pull you in and have you waste way too much of your life optimizing and over optimizing, right.
- And what you'll notice is that people who are exceptional are pulling in.
- And then of course, as there's the crossy bit which comes over, of course, when it pulls in, pulls the things together, up they go.
- So I grab him, I pull him in close to I could talk so I could talk to him in his ear screaming.
- So where you've got regions which are slightly more dense, that pulls in matter around it and you get gas coming together, collapsing down and forming the first stars.
Examples
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The new marketing strategy really helped to pull in a lot of young customers.
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Yesterday, she and our other women boxers demonstrated that women boxers can pull in the crowds just like the men.
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And it's pulled in a large number of people.
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If you are to achieve results, everybody must pull in the same direction.
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You probably get paid by the amount of traffic you pull in.
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What comes next is a campaign designed solely to pull in new fans.
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You really pulled in a whole new slew of voters there!
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We need a third party that will pull in fiscal conservatives with progressives.
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Braden Auditorium has also pulled in cultural heavyweights such as composer Marvin Hamlisch and the State Ballet Theatre of Russia.
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The documentary aims to pull in donations from people passionate about environmental issues.
Synonyms
991
1.9
Make people notice or want something
944
2.1
Attract people or attention to something
779
2.0
To attract people or interest to something
330
4.6
To attract someone and make them want to be involved, sometimes by a trick
270
3.7
To get someone to do something by offering a reward or making false promises
71
2.5
To make people notice something or someone
61
4.9
To persuade someone to do something by offering something they want
13
5.1
To draw someone strongly into a situation, often against their wish
8
3.6
Attract people or attention
6
6.5
To attract someone by using charm
3
3.3
Make someone notice something quickly and feel interested
1
3.2
To attract and keep people's interest
Antonyms
How Attractive
Surface Forms
Morphology
pull + in
The meaning 'to attract or draw' is transparently derived from combining 'pull' (to draw/tow) with the directional particle 'in' (toward), yielding an inward-drawing sense that maps directly onto 'attract'. This compositional motion→metaphor pattern is common and predictable, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will typically infer the MWE meaning (though note the phrasal verb also has other senses like 'arrive/stop').
Etymology
Pull in may come from the picture of a performer or shopkeeper using pull to draw people in to a show or store. So pull in now often means 'to attract' people, attention, or money.