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pull up stakesNorth American Move or go to live elsewhere: his father wrangled with a foreman and the family pulled up stakes...- Geneva, which in the not-so-distant past was considered a cultural backwater, with many galleries pulling up stakes to move elsewhere, has recently become an importer of galleries and auction houses.
- That's the kind of weather report that might cause golfers to think about pulling up stakes and moving to Phoenix.
- Tommie pulled up stakes and moved back to Cleveland to be by his mother.
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