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verb

past tense of armor

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Recent Examples of armored
Adjective
There were regular cars, race cars, super cars, hyper cars, emergency vehicles, a military armored personnel carrier and a semitruck. Keenan Thompson, USA Today, 26 Sep. 2025 The 33rd Folsom Renaissance Faire and Joust is keeping the 17th and 18th century Europe celebrations going in Folsom in a two-day event that features lords, knights, jousting competitions and full-armored combat. Marcus Smith, Sacbee.com, 26 Sep. 2025 There were regular cars, race cars, super cars, hyper cars, emergency vehicles, a military armored personnel carrier and a semitruck. Keenan Thompson, Freep.com, 24 Sep. 2025 The motorcade typically consists of a dozen or so vehicles including police on bikes and the president's own armored car, The Beast. Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for armored
Recent Examples of Synonyms for armored
Adjective
  • It is expected to deliver clearer imaging of dense, shielded materials like spent nuclear fuel, while also significantly enhancing nuclear safety.
    Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The city’s parks and recreation department replaced its already-aging lights with shielded, dark sky-friendly fixtures last year with federal and local government funding.
    Adithi Ramakrishnan, Twin Cities, 21 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Swift’s 149-show, five-continent expedition encapsulated a tsunami of emotions not just among her fans, but her own journey through a very public breakup, a fling and, as indicated by her engagement to Kelce, knee-buckling love.
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The Mets’ defensive fifth inning encapsulated everything wrong with them.
    Will Sammon, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Selena Gomez as Mabel Mora Gomez earned an Emmy nomination for her role as Mabel, a guarded and sarcastic millennial who strikes up an unexpected friendship with Charles and Oliver.
    Olivia Singh, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Our spirits remain guarded, but high, for this one; the Venice Film Festival crowd seemed to eat it up.
    Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 3 Sep. 2024
Verb
  • The Space Force has only acknowledged one of the satellites aboard the USSF-106 mission, but there are more payloads cocooned inside the Vulcan rocket's fairing.
    Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 12 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Deutsch explained that architects have found lowering a ceiling makes a person feel more protected and comfortable.
    Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2025
  • After walking away from the semi-protected working environment of Anderson’s film, Hoffman followed the advice of some peers and enrolled in an acting school in New York to hone his craft.
    J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 27 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Instead of pumping in conventional air conditioning, it was surrounded by proprietary glass panes filled with cooled water.
    Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 30 Sep. 2025
  • One of the best places to stay is Villa Paola, a former 16th Century convent surrounded by a Mediterranean garden that overlooks the white beaches and rocky cliffs of the Costa degli Dei (Coast of the Gods).
    Gary Portuesi, Travel + Leisure, 30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Ringo recorded a defended pass and recovered the fumble Campbell forced.
    Brooks Kubena, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • In the first three games of the year, DeJean recorded 22 tackles and a defended pass.
    Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Behind the facility, a large parking lot is ringed with fences topped with razor wire.
    Rick Jervis, USA Today, 25 Sep. 2025
  • That aged Scottish owl was found two miles from where it had been ringed nearly a quarter of a century before.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 19 Sep. 2025

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“Armored.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/armored. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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