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pulling to publish

pulling to publish is the present participle and gerund of pull to publish.

Meaning of pull to publish

Verb

pull to publish (third-person singular simple present pulls to publish, present participle pulling to publish, simple past and past participle pulled to publish)

  1. To withdraw a work of fan fiction from circulation and commercially publish a reworked version of it as original fiction.
    • Such a definition allows us to consider the implications of ‘pulling to publish’ Twilight fanfics.2014 August, Joseph Brennan, David Large, “‘Let's Get a Bit of Context’: Fifty Shades and the Phenomenon of ‘Pulling to Publish’ in Twilight Fan Fiction”, in Media International Australia, volume...

Questions about pulling to publish

What is pulling to publish the present participle and gerund of?
Pulling to publish is the present participle and gerund of pull to publish.

Words near pulling to publish in the dictionary

  1. pulling the trigger
  2. pulling the wires
  3. pulling the wool over someone's eyes
  4. pulling through
  5. pulling time
  6. pulling to publish
  7. pulling together
  8. pulling tongues
  9. pulling up
  10. pulling up on
  11. pulling up one's socks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pulling to publish (page history and authors); pull to publish (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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