administered

verb

past tense of administer
1
as in distributed
to give out (something) to appropriate individuals the principal administers discipline fairly when students break the rules

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2
as in enforced
to carry out effectively local officials should see that the fair housing laws are rigorously administered

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3
as in managed
to look after and make decisions about the lieutenant governor administers the affairs of the state in the absence of the governor

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Recent Examples of administered Hobbs was the secretary of state who administered Arizona's 2020 election. — Caroline Linton, CBS News, 4 Nov. 2026 New York Road Runners, the nonprofit club that stages the race, said in a news release that a bystander administered CPR to Apa, and event medical staffers also did CPR and used a defibrillator. — Larry Neumeister, Chicago Tribune, 3 Nov. 2026 That batch was quickly administered and another 70 doses sent in June were used up within 10 days, said Tarsisio Biryeija, a nursing officer working as a counselor at Mbarara Health Centre IV. — ABC News, 3 Nov. 2026 New York Road Runners, which organizes the marathon, said in a statement that a bystander administered CPR before the marathon’s medical staff could. — Rebecca Cohen, NBC news, 3 Nov. 2026 But much of the time, chemotherapy can be safely administered during pregnancy and the infant delivered at term. — Elyce Cardonick, STAT, 2 Nov. 2026 PhotoTat would make such tattoos invisible except when the treatment is being administered. — ArsTechnica, 2 Nov. 2026 Narcan was reportedly administered, and paramedics tried to resuscitate her. — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2026 Carvajal, a law student who created and administered one of the group chats, was suspended for two years, until May 2028. — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 28 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for administered
  1. distributed
  2. enforced
  3. managed
  4. dispensed
  5. implemented
  6. operated
  7. provided
  8. supervised
Verb
  • Informally distributed agent management responsibilities may work during experimentation, but thousands of agents interacting with applications, data, employees, customers and one another require a more deliberate operating model.
    — Lakshmanan Alagappan, Forbes.com, 6 Nov. 2026
  • Like its predecessor, the monster follow-up is produced by Toho and is distributed in North America by GKids.
    — Brent Lang, IndieWire, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of distributed
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  • Mackenzie was charged with the murders alongside 28 of his followers, including guards who enforced his fasting directives and gravediggers who helped conceal the mass graves.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 6 Nov. 2026
  • But five years later, in 1977, Section 504 was still not enforced, and Heumann was not going to let that stand.
    — Barry Levitt, Time, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of enforced
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  • Deckhand Matt may just be the most audacious toe-stepper to debut in this franchise since Alesia, who, in the last season of Down Under, managed to rearrange the interior team according to her own proclivities.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 3 Nov. 2026
  • This looming ban — slipped into a sweeping budget bill passed by Congress last year — was set to go into effect this November before a bipartisan coalition of senators managed to punt the deadline by a month, to December 11.
    — Sarah Owermohle, CNN Money, 3 Nov. 2026
Definition of managed
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  • The automatic low temperature dish machine dispensed 0 ppm sanitizer.
    — Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 30 Oct. 2026
  • As journals rose in popularity, so did the book dispensed in bursts.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of dispensed
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  • The main way this strategy is being implemented is through agreements with individual countries.
    — Gabrielle Emanuel, NPR, 6 Nov. 2026
  • SharkNinja, which has a total global workforce of 4,200, has implemented AI tools in such areas as product innovation, media planning and finance.
    — Paul Wiseman, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of implemented
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  • Threats were also made against a Prague-to-Bucharest, Romania, flight operated by Romanian carrier Tarom, and a Ryanair flight from the Portuguese capital, Lisbon, to Rome.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 7 Nov. 2026
  • The complication is that about 95% of the world’s 46,000 McDonald’s restaurants are owned and operated by franchisees — and some have pushed back against a proposal that could require $650,000 to $800,000 of investment per store.
    — Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of operated
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  • The results provided an early indication of voter support for the school board’s direction as the district faced declining enrollment and difficult budget decisions.
    — Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 4 Nov. 2026
  • The second provided the means to revoke trust in the digital certificate used to sign older vulnerable Windows boot managers.
    — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 3 Nov. 2026
Definition of provided
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  • Co-founder Nemmert supervised the build of Lokia’s operating system (Lokia OS) and runs the company’s operations and production side.
    — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 6 Nov. 2026
  • In mid-October Reliable’s software taxied, took off and landed a Cessna Grand Caravan, a single-engine turboprop plane, at Albuquerque’s main airport while a pilot supervised from company headquarters in California, more than 700 miles away.
    — Peter Hall, Scientific American, 3 Nov. 2026
Definition of supervised

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