pull up stakes
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Or will the companies at the vanguard of American reindustrialization pull up stakes and move to states that welcome entrepreneurs?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
A pop music icon helps a pitiable pachyderm in Pakistan pack his trunk and pull up stakes for a nature preserve in Cambodia in the documentary “Cher & the Loneliest Elephant.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2021
Only “Tenet” held firm to its date, the rare tentpole that wouldn’t pull up stakes.
From New York Times ● Jul. 17, 2020
Two months after her son suddenly switched jobs and cities — he was traded just before this NFL season from Arizona to Baltimore — the 31-year-old was forced to pull up stakes yet again.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 2, 2017
Back in my troupe, my father occasionally made us pull up stakes and leave a town despite the fact that we were welcome and the crowds were generous.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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