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pulls to publish

pulls to publish is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 pulls to publish

What is pulls to publish the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Pulls to publish is the third-person singular simple present indicative of pull to publish.

Words near pulls to publish in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pulls 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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