amended

Definition of amendednext
past tense of amend
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as in reformed
to change one's behavior or character for the better the judge had heard the defendant promise before that he would amend

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Recent Examples of amended In October 2025, Guatemala’s Congress amended several laws to designate the Barrio 18 and Mara Salvatrucha gangs as transnational criminal and terrorist organizations. — Almudena Calatrava, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026 The original proposal included employers of all sizes, but the Board of Health amended the policy to exempt small businesses. — Madeline Bartos, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026 That may explain why, in 2018, Utah amended its neglect statute to permit children to engage in independent activities like walking to school or playing outside, becoming the first state to do so. — Jennifer L. Brinkley, The Conversation, 19 Oct. 2026 The Greenwich Sentinel reported that at a recent forum, Democrat Jill Oberlander, candidate for the town’s 36th Senate District seat, said that the law should be amended or repealed, and stressed her support for community zoning authority. — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 18 Oct. 2026 Questions remain Miami Gardens amended its public-participation policy in February 2026, after Jackson filed her lawsuit. — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 16 Oct. 2026 That order was amended in 2011 so that Moss only had to see a psychiatrist quarterly. — Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Oct. 2026 State law allows cities of Roseville’s size to establish council salaries of $2,550 per month, although the city’s charter must be amended by voters before the new compensation rules can take effect. — Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 14 Oct. 2026 The island democracy’s legislature later amended its laws to increase penalties for intentional damage to undersea cables or pipelines and allow for up to seven years in prison. — Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 14 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for amended
Verb
  • As broadcasting capabilities improved, the key didn’t have to get quite so cozy with the ignition system to effectively communicate.
    — Alison J. Stein, HubSpot, 29 Oct. 2026
  • After the 2016 sales tax hike, the proceeds of which went largely toward pensions, the retirement funding steadily improved.
    — A.D. Quig, Chicago Tribune, 29 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • This was a violation at the opening inspection and was to be corrected prior to opening.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Politico corrected a report from last week on the role that Donald Trump‘s Chief of Staff Susie Wiles played preceding the exit of Katie Zacharia as White House press secretary.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 22 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • But in more recent years, as state and national politics grew consumed by concerns over the cost of living, California Democrats have divided over whether and how much CEQA must be reformed.
    — Andrew Graham, Sacbee.com, 12 Oct. 2026
  • The entire Western defense ecosystem must be reformed from the ground up to avoid this fate and ensure it is structured for full-spectrum warfare.
    — Dan Driscoll, Foreign Affairs, 28 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Visions, enhanced with shadows and emotion, came to life on marble through sketching the stone and chiseling and carving entirely by hand.
    — Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Each picture mode offers essentially the same rich set of options, except for AI-enhanced, which locks you out of some settings (including local contrast and color tuner), presumably because the AI logic is handling those.
    — M. David Stone, PC Magazine, 24 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • On September 30, the Securities and Exchange Commission quietly rewrote the rule that decides the number of commissioners who must be present to act on agency business.
    — Andrew Behar, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2026
  • So in 1981 and ’82, the new Reagan administration completely rewrote the antitrust guidelines, the federal guidelines that instruct federal judges and prosecutors, state attorneys generals, everybody.
    — John E. McDonough, STAT, 16 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • None of them decided what was worth going after, recognized which opening justified the risk, or improvised when a target behaved in a way no playbook anticipated.
    — Jay Kaplan, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2026
  • Had one of the girls behaved that way, she probably would have been removed from the game.
    — Jonathan Alpert OutKick, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2026

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“Amended.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/amended. Accessed 1 Nov. 2026.

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