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verb

past tense of balance

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Recent Examples of balanced
Adjective
The children, having a happy and balanced upbringing, will ensure a robust, cohesive institution. Stephanie Nolasco , Ashley Papa, FOXNews.com, 7 Oct. 2025 Another candid consulting leader, Asutosh Padhi, Senior Partner and Global Leader of Firm Strategy at McKinsey & Company, took a more balanced view of AI in the workforce. Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
As the new railway brings an influx of tourists to Bacalar, the question is whether the area’s growing popularity can be balanced with conservation. Simon Willis, Travel + Leisure, 5 Oct. 2025 The ending is easy to anticipate and no less fiendishly pleasing for it; seeing the karmic scales balanced this well deserves a hearty Cryptkeeper cackle. A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for balanced
Recent Examples of Synonyms for balanced
Adjective
  • The technique could make optical clocks smaller, more stable, and usable outside high-end labs.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 9 Oct. 2025
  • This doesn’t just happen for balls rolling down hills, but for rain that pools into puddles, ponds, and lakes, for molecules that fold into a particular configuration, and even for electrons that cascade down into a stable or quasi-stable energy state.
    Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 8 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In a world where growth is equated with progress, capitalism breathes through expansion, and consumption becomes its oxygen.
    Michaela Rychetska, JSTOR Daily, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The combined mental and physical illness risks of loneliness have been equated with those of obesity or smoking and represent a serious public health concern.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Like last week against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Hurts had a hot start and then faltered in the second half.
    Ted Nguyen, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Although both players were made to save break points early on in the deciding set, Nosková faltered first as Anisimova took a 4-2 lead, cutting down on the unforced errors that were her downfall in the second.
    Frank Nunns O'Connell, CNN Money, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • With the ending of placements at the Civic and city-funded rooms in other CoLEAD shelters, safety ambassadors who were paid to quell the violence on Third Avenue turned to other shelter organizations.
    Ashley Hiruko, ProPublica, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Brighton paid second-tier Dutch club Breda less than £2million for the then 20-year-old in September 2020, with the potential for the fee to rise to nearly £3m with add-ons.
    Andy Naylor, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Just like the Nômade property in Tulum, Nômade Temple Holbox is mindfulness focused to the core, offering experiences ranging from introductory yoga classes to more out-there wellness experiences like lucid dreaming sound journeys.
    Carley Rojas Ávila, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Floating somewhere between lucid dreams and nightmares, Desde el Coma feels like waking up gasping for air — a kaleidoscope of bruises, chaos, and resurrection.
    Natalia Cano, Billboard, 22 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • When the eye looks symmetrical, that often means the storm is not encountering anything to weaken it.
    The New York Times, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Informal decorative dahlias refers to a broad category of dahlias that don’t have that symmetrical look to them.
    Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • New Orleans — A bowtie is adjusted.
    Jenny Adams, CNN Money, 5 Oct. 2025
  • While Ray successfully adjusted its orbit and continues to function, it was not designed to land.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 4 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Shaking in his seat, Dobby initially hesitated to comment on the subject, but then segment anchor Michael Che offered him some encouragement.
    Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Oct. 2025
  • The director hesitated to watch the film at the Cannes Classics showing.
    Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 3 Oct. 2025

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“Balanced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/balanced. Accessed 10 Oct. 2025.

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