Synonyms for pull off
pull off

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1. pull-off, rest area, rest stop, layby, lay-byverb

   designated paved area beside a main road where cars can stop temporarily

   Synonyms:
   lay-by, rest area, layby, pull-off, rest stop

2. pluck, tweak, pull off, pick offverb

   pull or pull out sharply

   "pluck the flowers off the bush"

   Synonyms:
   fleece, cull, manage, bring off, surcharge, carry off, hustle, pick, deplume, hook, displume, pluck, tweak, fine-tune, pull, roll, overcharge, tear, soak, plunk, negociate, draw away, gazump, rob, deplumate, pick off, plume, draw off

3. pull offverb

   cause to withdraw

   "We pulled this firm off the project because they overcharged"

   Synonyms:
   carry off, manage, bring off, pluck, draw off, tweak, pick off, draw away, negociate

4. pull off, negociate, bring off, carry off, manageverb

   be successful; achieve a goal

   "She succeeded in persuading us all"; "I managed to carry the box upstairs"; "She pulled it off, even though we never thought her capable of it"; "The pianist negociated the difficult runs"

   Synonyms:
   bear off, negotiate, bring off, finagle, care, talk terms, eliminate, bear away, supervise, eradicate, grapple, decimate, wield, deal, manage, contend, do, oversee, wangle, annihilate, make out, carry away, wipe out, negociate, pick off, handle, draw away, draw off, take away, extinguish, cope, tweak, make do, get by, superintend, carry off, pluck

5. draw off, draw away, pull offverb

   remove by drawing or pulling

   "She placed the tray down and drew off the cloth"; "draw away the cloth that is covering the cheese"

   Synonyms:
   carry off, manage, draw away, tweak, draw off, withdraw, take out, bring off, draw, pluck, pick off, negociate

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1. Antonio Barroso:

   The key message is whether one of the sides will get a last minute boost or not, can the coalition recover enough to pull off a Cameron?

2. Jose Aldo:

   Were literally just going to Yas Island right now to pull off these fights because the hardest thing to do right now is to get people into the country from other parts of the world.

3. Kelli Sharpe:

   I'm actually one of the few Iowans who doesn't think we should be first in the country. I don't think that makes sense, we're not very many people, and we're making decisions for everybody. The primary is much more easy to pull off, it's simpler, I think that would be a better system.

4. Phil Noble:

   He's got to pull off a surprise against Clinton soon or he won't have time to recover.

5. Beverley Mitchell:

   Its funny, some scripts come to you and they just feel right, you dont really have to do research and you know it in your heart. When I read Ashlyn, I felt like we were so in tune that it wasnt much of a stretch and I felt very connected to her immediately... I felt in my hearts that this was something that I could not only pull off, but do really well.