agreed

past tense of agree
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as in bargained
to come to an arrangement as to a course of action since we couldn't agree, we tossed a coin to decide the matter

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Recent Examples of agreed Officials met with family members Thursday and agreed to start using heavy machinery to remove the debris and recover the bodies. Helen Regan, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2025 Local officials have now met with family members and agreed to begin using machinery to move the rubble and start recovering bodies. Kirsty Hatcher, PEOPLE, 2 Oct. 2025 For a normal comic, retailers are asked to biy 500 copies in order to carry it, but Liefeld convinced publisher Image to up it to 750 for these books, and retailers agreed, many ordering much more than that. Aaron Couch, HollywoodReporter, 2 Oct. 2025 At least one high-ranking transportation official has agreed that the state should get the wheels rolling on a study focused on the widening of Interstate 94 in the western half of Waukesha County. Jim Riccioli, jsonline.com, 2 Oct. 2025 The video of Madeline’s pure joy went viral, and Hanson, who has evolved into a cult hero for Sunday NFL viewers, saw it and agreed to an interview. Charlotte Wilder, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025 This week, news broke that Louisville men's basketball agreed to a four-year deal with the Players Era Festival. Payton Titus, Louisville Courier Journal, 2 Oct. 2025 Richter agreed, expressing disappointment about the ways in which clean energy has become politicized. Katherine Fung claire Dodds, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Sep. 2025 For the first time in history, nearly every nation on Earth has agreed that artificial intelligence is too consequential to leave ungoverned. Vilas Dhar, Time, 25 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for agreed
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  • The actress and singer appeared to be caught off guard during Monday's episode of Today after interviewer Melvin bluntly noted that the filming the movie coincided with the finalization of her divorce from Ben Affleck, who executive-produced the musical, earlier this year.
    Jessica Wang, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Deadline has confirmed that the original artwork was replaced by stills from the Ian Fleming spy movies over the weekend, following a social media backlash that coincided with James Bond Day on October 5.
    Jake Kanter, Deadline, 6 Oct. 2025
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  • Those rules are currently exempt from antitrust scrutiny, because they have been collectively bargained and are thus protected by the non-statutory labor exemption.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Union leaders bargained with the administration for those who were laid off to receive three months of severance, rather than two weeks of pay per year of service; three months of COBRA insurance coverage; and rehiring priority for any positions becoming vacant over the next two years.
    News Desk, Artforum, 3 Sep. 2025
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  • The bank admitted fault in only 13 out of the 101 cases tracked by the organization, with the remaining 88 cases settled without admission of guilt.
    Lily Mae Lazarus, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Swift also admitted on a recent SiriusXM Hits 1 interview that her mom, Andrea, thinks (or, honestly, prefers to believe) the song is just about superstitions and making your own luck.
    Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Oct. 2025
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  • To calculate the scattering amplitude for a collision of n particles, physicists would have to add up many BCFW terms — and each of those terms corresponded to a region of the positive Grassmannian in n dimensions.
    Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 6 Oct. 2025
  • That corresponded to a 68% to 86% reduction in the probability of brain injury.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 23 Sep. 2025
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  • Sandinista ideology blended Marxism, liberalism, and nationalism, borrowing ideas from both sides of the Iron Curtain.
    Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 8 Oct. 2025
  • For Hilton, whose public persona has always blended self-parody and glamour, the nod feels intentional — a bridge between two eras of women who mastered spectacle on their own terms.
    Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 4 Oct. 2025
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  • Managers may hold more cash or shorten deal horizons to meet retail liquidity demands, the speakers concurred.
    Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2025
  • As part of last year’s redesign, Counsell concurred with another idea that players had floated, removing the bulky countertops and clunky couches in the middle of the locker room.
    Patrick Mooney, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
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  • While Gein confessed to killing Worden and Hogan, he was only convicted of the former's murder.
    Aya Al-Hakim, PEOPLE, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The findings also effectively means the exoneration of four teenage boys initially implicated in the killings in 1999, two of whom confessed.
    Jean Casarez, CNN Money, 5 Oct. 2025
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  • The famous Stanford Prison Experiment by Zimbardo revealed how quickly people conformed to roles of power or submission, often at the expense of empathy and fairness.
    Mary Crossan, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Columbia, Brown, and the University of Pennsylvania have made deals with the Administration to restore their funding, and other universities have conformed to what the Administration seems to want in order to avoid becoming targets themselves.
    Jeannie Suk Gersen, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2025

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