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. Jonathan Sander:

   These are the lazy young people who use the easy ways to pull off simple, well known exploits that mostly work against similarly lazy, ill defended targets.

2. Hillary Clinton:

   In Wisconsin, where I lost by just 22,748 votes, a study from Priorities USA estimated that the new voter ID law helped reduce turnout by 200,000 votes, primarily from low-income and minority areas, ... Before the election, one Republican state representative in Wisconsin predicted the new law would help Trump pull off an upset in the state. It turns out he was right.

3. 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.

4. Mark Anderson:

   I think the important part to realize that we actually were able to pull off a successful election with checks and balances, we just didn't do willy-nilly e-ballots, they have security that was on them. We have documentation that's on them, we have all the processes to backup and protect why we did what we did.

5. Bill Dudley:

   The Federal Reserve has to slow the economy down and generate some slack in the labor market, the Federal Reserve's a very difficult assignment to pull off.