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as in suffused
to cause (as a person) to become filled or saturated with a certain quality or principle
invested the film with his own enthusiasm for the wonders of flight
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as in gifted
to furnish freely or naturally with some power, quality, or attribute
a woman invested with the strong desire to make the world a better place
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as in enabled
to give official or legal power to
invested him with power of attorney
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as in clad
to outfit with clothes and especially fine or special clothes
a fashion designer who has invested a number of the winners of the best actress award
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as in inducted
to put into an office or welcome into an organization with special ceremonies
the beloved actor was finally invested as a knight by the queen
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as in besieged
to surround (as a fortified place) with armed forces for the purpose of capturing or preventing commerce and communication
the city was mercilessly invested for an entire year, but never fell
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as in wrapped
to surround or cover closely
nightfall invested the land
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as in suited
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Recent Examples of invested
Tom O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Sep. 2025
In 2024, Nvidia invested about $1 billion in AI startups globally either directly or through its corporate venture capital arm NVentures, according to data from Dealroom and The Financial Times.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2025
The Oscar winner held back, curious how invested his son was in the opportunity.
—Andrea Mandell, PEOPLE, 28 Sep. 2025
Sandals Resorts has invested heavily in turning the Caribbean into a pickleball haven, with high-quality courts, pro-grade gear, and on-site instructors ready to guide first-timers.
—AFAR Media, 27 Sep. 2025
That funding will be invested and pay out at 4% each year.
—Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 26 Sep. 2025
To regain its cool factor, Ervér has invested extensively in branding efforts, from hosting music events featuring Anitta, Charli XCX, Lola Young and Tyla to opening London Fashion Week with a splashy runway show.
—Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 25 Sep. 2025
However, unlike contributions in a college savings 529 plan, contributions to a prepaid plan are not invested.
—Jasmin Suknanan, CNBC, 25 Sep. 2025
Owners and brothers Pietro, Giuliano, and Alessandro Irollo de Lutiis, reportedly invested 30 million euros and spent four years renovating it.
—Laura Itzkowitz, Travel + Leisure, 21 Sep. 2025
Adjective
Already, some argue, the world's most powerful military bloc appears to be scrambling to adapt to the new reality of an emerging form of modern warfare in which Moscow has heavily invested.
—Tom O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Sep. 2025
In 2024, Nvidia invested about $1 billion in AI startups globally either directly or through its corporate venture capital arm NVentures, according to data from Dealroom and The Financial Times.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2025
The Oscar winner held back, curious how invested his son was in the opportunity.
—Andrea Mandell, PEOPLE, 28 Sep. 2025
Sandals Resorts has invested heavily in turning the Caribbean into a pickleball haven, with high-quality courts, pro-grade gear, and on-site instructors ready to guide first-timers.
—AFAR Media, 27 Sep. 2025
That funding will be invested and pay out at 4% each year.
—Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 26 Sep. 2025
To regain its cool factor, Ervér has invested extensively in branding efforts, from hosting music events featuring Anitta, Charli XCX, Lola Young and Tyla to opening London Fashion Week with a splashy runway show.
—Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 25 Sep. 2025
However, unlike contributions in a college savings 529 plan, contributions to a prepaid plan are not invested.
—Jasmin Suknanan, CNBC, 25 Sep. 2025
Owners and brothers Pietro, Giuliano, and Alessandro Irollo de Lutiis, reportedly invested 30 million euros and spent four years renovating it.
—Laura Itzkowitz, Travel + Leisure, 21 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for invested
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The film certainly steers clear of Emmerichian overdrive, but it is suffused with hopelessness — on both an intimate and an epic scale.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
19 Sep. 2025
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But the hot gas that suffused the space between the galaxies in each cluster would have crashed head-on.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
11 Sep. 2025
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The Republican was allowed to keep personal assets like the World Series rings gifted to him from the New York Yankees from 1994 to 2001.—
Ross O'Keefe,
The Washington Examiner,
27 Sep. 2025
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In October 2024, her daughter North West, 14, even gifted her a necklace with a viral phrase on it.—
Liza Esquibias,
PEOPLE,
25 Sep. 2025
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The move is enabled by the expansion of Florida’s Schools of Hope law, which allows approved charter school operators co-locate or have full access to underused, vacant or surplus district facilities in the attendance zone or within five miles of a persistently low-performing school.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
25 Sep. 2025
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These vast resources of corvée labor and raw materials also enabled powerful rulers to secure their place in the afterlife.—
Vanessa Taylor,
Big Think,
25 Sep. 2025
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These approvals would enable architects and developers to use SUPERWOOD as cladding on taller buildings.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
2 Sep. 2025
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That’s good, but cladding a phone whose raison d’etre is gorgeous, slim design seems less than ideal.—
David Phelan,
Forbes.com,
4 May 2025
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Metallica, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2009, has a long history with the Mill Valley Film Festival.—
Paul Liberatore,
Mercury News,
26 Sep. 2025
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Staubach was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1985.—
Nick Harris,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
26 Sep. 2025
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Through the first-person narration of his protagonist, Nicholas, a teenager suddenly besieged by anxiety, Clune conveys with uncanny vividness what a panic attack feels like.—
Scott Stossel,
The Atlantic,
9 Sep. 2025
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Landslide in western Sudan kills at least 1,000 A landslide in western Sudan killed at least 1,000 people, intensifying hardship in a country besieged by years of civil war.—
Tasneem Nashrulla,
semafor.com,
4 Sep. 2025
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Crowds wrapped around the block to attend @TPUSA event at Virginia Tech.—
Amy DeLaura,
The Washington Examiner,
25 Sep. 2025
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Cuthbert recently wrapped production on her next project, Bandit, opposite Josh Duhamel and Mel Gibson, and The Cellar, starring opposite Eoin Macken.—
Rosy Cordero,
Deadline,
24 Sep. 2025
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Cilantro is native to the Mediterranean and well-suited for growing in our climate.—
Joshua Siskin,
Oc Register,
26 Sep. 2025
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Attachment theory pervades an institution that seems fixated on severing teens’ bonds with parents who are invariably discovered to be, if not complete monsters, at least ill-suited for the task of caring for their own children.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
25 Sep. 2025
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“Invested.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/invested. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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