balled 1 of 2

past tense of ball
as in rolled
to form into a round compact mass balled up the paper and threw it at the garbage can

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balled

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adjective

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Recent Examples of balled
Adjective
In a statement win for the Mustangs, Ralston Valley QB Zeke Andrews balled out. Matt Schubert, Denver Post, 26 Sep. 2025 Her brother cannon-balled off a rock to join her. Brianna Randall, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025 Lynn Dickey threw for 387 yards and three touchdowns; Paul Coffman balled out with a 6/124/2 receiving line. Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2025 Newly installed balled and burlapped plants need about 1 inch of water a week — be sure the root ball is getting watered. Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 16 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for balled
Verb
  • The scene was partly improvised, in the sense that White didn’t know what the song was going to be before cameras rolled.
    Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Even before the camera rolled, Burns, in jeans and a sweater, was bursting with facts.
    Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Even luckier, a well-rounded preppy wardrobe doesn’t have to break the bank.
    Francesca Krempa, Travel + Leisure, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Peña, on the other hand, would reach for the Tweezerman ProMaster for rounded eyes.
    Kiana Murden, Vogue, 18 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Meters away, two humanoid robots, with bulbous joints and expressionless plastic domes for faces, stand at a desk.
    Billy Perrigo, Time, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Then came some tops and skirts in bulbous shapes — a clear nod to the cocoon silhouette that cemented Balenciaga in fashion history — as well as textured dresses, some with exaggerated trains that billowed with each step.
    Kati Chitrakorn, CNN Money, 5 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Overall, the design language shifts from squarish to roundish and more curvy, presenting a silhouette closer to a human figure, at least from the front.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The wrappers don’t have to be a perfect circle, just roundish.
    Tribune News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Those lucky/sitting ducks were at the center of a manifold creative pressure, like the core of a planet pulled spherical by gravity.
    Kate Colby October 2, Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The prototypes were spherical wire frames containing sails; in the wind tunnel, they were put through their paces on different surfaces, including rough and smooth terrain, sand, pebbles and boulder fields.
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Open star clusters are much less dense than their globular counterparts and a pair of binoculars with a lower magnification allows for a more comprehensive view.
    Harry Bennett, Space.com, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The globular segments of the abstract piece, Complexing, could be a kind of smudging, a devolving, of the pregnant and engorged curvilinear silhouette of an earlier figurative sculpture, Monument.
    Nina-Sophia Miralles, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
Adjective
  • The Moomins, created by Finnish artist and writer Tove Jansson during WWII, are gentle, rotund trolls who live in Moominvalley, a magical place where adventures are always waiting around the corner and the values of friendship, bravery and respect are ever-present.
    Carole Horst, Variety, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The rotund bomb is similar to the one used in the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
    Michael Goldstein, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The brand, which recently became first denim brand to achieve the TESTEX Circularity Label, says this circular loop process reduces CO₂ emissions by 47 percent, saves up to 90 percent water compared to industry standards and cuts waste.
    Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 20 Oct. 2025
  • According to Carscoops, early renderings reveal a low-slung front end, circular headlights, a modest front grille, and a compact cockpit, complemented by wing mirrors perched high on the A-pillars.
    Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2025

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“Balled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/balled. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.

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