attended (to)

past tense of attend (to)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for attended (to)
Verb
  • Eliminating the Phillies — a team some analysts considered the best in baseball — elevated the Dodgers from +200 to +120 odds.
    Scott Phillips, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Under California law, the relatives are considered victims of the 1989 crime and had the right to share statements with the board.
    Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Money, 12 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The third victim was treated on scene by members of the Torrance Fire Department, according to Ahmad.
    Chris Spargo, PEOPLE, 15 Oct. 2025
  • During the height of the civil rights era, the government often treated Black activism and urban unrest as a threat that needed to be contained.
    Josiah Bates, Time, 14 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Sunday marked the Lions’ first loss since their opening game against the Green Bay Packers.
    Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The deal marked one of the largest takeovers of a restaurant brand in Britain.
    Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The cause of the epidemic has never been identified, though scientists have since identified pathogens behind a more recent sea urchin epidemic in the region.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 17 Oct. 2025
  • In a public statement issued shortly after her arrest, the Department of Homeland Security mistakenly identified her as a Columbia student.
    Aida Alami, New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The decision to forego the open houses was made out of security concerns as well as a desire to take action for Palestinians, said COSMOS president Siddiqui.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Aurora’s spider web was made out of string and glue, very much in line with how the old musicals were created.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 11 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • At the time, Brenden Aaronson’s placement as the draught excluder was questioned, which Pyzdrowski also picked up on.
    Beren Cross, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Elijah Irvin picked up 104 yards rushing, 103 in the second half, on 13 carries for Saginaw and had runs of 26 and 18 yards on the Rough Riders’ final drive to help run out the clock.
    Updated October 10, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • For example, soldiers who were studied during parachute training showed dramatic stress responses within minutes of their first jump, but in later training jumps, that stress changed to thrill.
    Big Think, Big Think, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Italian scientist Alessandro Volta studied eel physiology to inspire the first battery, and recent work shows eels use doublets, two rapid spikes, to force rapid prey muscle contractions before the knockout blast.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Despite all of that, on the road — albeit with a friendly and loud Bears fan contingent — Williams led the offense down the field to take the lead, and the team heeded its coach after halftime.
    Kevin Fishbain, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Peter Finn, managing director of industrial technology at Brown Gibbons & Lang, said Gartner’s warnings around worker safety need to be heeded.
    Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 25 Sep. 2025
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“Attended (to).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/attended%20%28to%29. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.

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