banked

Definition of bankednext
past tense of bank

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of banked The sperm was banked after Epstein's conviction, which raises murky ethics issues in the fertility industry. Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 1 June 2026 That drew Dobeš’ attention away from the traffic in the crease — and Miller, with plenty of space between himself and Danault, banked the puck off Staal’s skate back toward the Canadiens’ net. Arpon Basu, New York Times, 28 May 2026 And when Jalen Brunson banked in a floater with just under four minutes left in the period — a sequence that sent Maxey into frustration and head coach Nick Nurse calling a timeout — the Knicks’ lead suddenly swelled to 12. Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 9 May 2026 While returning to his base after the training mission, the wingman suddenly banked his jet because two fellow pilots on the lead aircraft were trying to film him with their phones. Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 23 Apr. 2026 At the Clinton office nearby, volunteers phone banked and canvassed. Nataliya Gumenyuk, The Dial, 21 Apr. 2026 On the first, Seattle’s Jordan Eberle won a faceoff in the offensive back toward Ryan Lindgren at the left point, but Byfield got to the puck first and banked it off the boards to get past Lindgren and start a 2-on-1 rush. Daily News, 14 Apr. 2026 Those who banked 20 or more eggs saw rates near 82%. Allison Palmer, Kansas City Star, 8 Apr. 2026 McCollum took an inbounds pass near the free-throw line and took two dribbles before launching a shot that banked in. CBS News, 7 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for banked
Verb
  • Traders piled into Broadcom stock, betting on a huge guide that didn’t materialize.
    Zev Fima, CNBC, 4 June 2026
  • Cars and trucks piled into the roundabout, horns blaring.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 June 2026
Verb
  • Since glaciers didn’t flow right into Salisbury, the study speculates the stone, thought to have served as an altar, was deposited hundreds of miles east, beneath what is now the North Sea.
    Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 4 June 2026
  • Then, Hesham Sallam, my adviser, introduced me to earlier work by paleontologist and geologist Robert Speijer and colleagues who had documented rocks at Qreiya in Egypt that were deposited only about 4 million years after the asteroid impact.
    Sanaa El-Sayed, The Conversation, 4 June 2026
Verb
  • Make sure your shoulders and elbows are stacked over your wrists.
    Jenessa Connor, Health, 5 June 2026
  • The eight segments will join two segments delivered in April at KSC ready to be stacked to form the twin solid rocket boosters atop the mobile launcher 1 as the SLS rocket begins to take shape this summer.
    Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 June 2026
Verb
  • Kent mounded up soil the couple bought from GreatSoil to create some elevation.
    Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 May 2026
  • One stretch, called Stuyvesant Cove Park, comprises only a floodable esplanade with plantings mounded up to the top of an eight-foot-high barrier wall that rises from street level and runs along an elevated section of FDR Drive.
    James S. Russell, Bloomberg, 13 Mar. 2026

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“Banked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/banked. Accessed 8 Jun. 2026.

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