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centered

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verb

past tense of center

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of centered
Adjective
Pearl loves pairing a round table with a single, centered fixture, while a rectangular table lends itself to different shapes and sculptural fixtures. Ryan Conner, Dallas Morning News, 18 Feb. 2026 If someone talks over you, stay generous yet firm and restate your idea calmly, because centered delivery often wins the room. Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 8 Jan. 2026
Verb
September is Sacramento’s celebration of all things farm-to-fork, with a number of events centered on local food and California’s agricultural heritage. Anne Ewbank, Sacbee.com, 11 Sep. 2026 Rather than a battleground for regional influence, Yemen could become a platform for major-power competition centered on a critical maritime chokepoint. April Longley Alley, Foreign Affairs, 11 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for centered
Recent Examples of Synonyms for centered
Adjective
  • But apart from displaying an occasional streak of stubbornness, Varsha too is an equable child who has never done anything surprising or untoward—at least not until 20 September 1969.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 June 2026
  • Many aeronautical firsts occurred in the equable skies above this city.
    Eric DuVall, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • While that’s happening, our industry is being consolidated into these corporate monoliths that are run by people like Larry Ellison, and Larry Ellison is a radical conservative idealogue.
    Marlow Stern, Variety, 11 Sep. 2026
  • The stock ran up to $82 earlier this year, pulled back, consolidated, and has now crept back up to that same level.
    Josh Brown,Sean Russo, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Maui could record up to 8 inches of rain, the National Hurricane Center said, but officials in the state are also focused on the storm’s impacts on the island of Kauai.
    Dennis Romero, NBC news, 6 Sep. 2026
  • This has been another summer of multiple key players being sold to help balance the books, with incomings focused on free agents and loans.
    David Ornstein, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
Adjective
  • Each component is prepared separately, allowing the individual flavors and textures to shine before coming together in a balanced, composed bowl.
    Lynda Balslev, Mercury News, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Wrexham’s more direct approach, particularly when defenders Cleworth and Callum Doyle were picking out wing-backs Danny Imray and Ryan Longman with raking 50-yard deliveries, would have paid dividends with more composed finishing.
    Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • But cricket’s finances and influence have increasingly concentrated around India, England and Australia, creating an unequal playing field.
    Daniel Gallan, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2026
  • The male loneliness epidemic has become something of a buzzword, though research shows that loneliness is about equal across genders, and concentrated among younger people.
    Emily Kelleher, InStyle, 9 Sep. 2026
Adjective
  • The book’s post-apocalyptic setting ennobles its meditations on selfhood and finitude; the narrator’s search for perpetuity is lent an unshakable gravity by her circumstances.
    Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026
  • No one expected Joint to suddenly start serving like Williams or possess her unshakable self-confidence.
    Charlie Eccleshare, New York Times, 30 June 2026
Verb
  • Dating, shopping, algorithmic feeds, ad networks, AI-powered glasses—Facebook (and other social networks like it) became integrated into our entire lives.
    Larry Bradley, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2026
  • In 1947, Jackie Robinson integrated Major League Baseball, yet by 1955, Little League in the South remained segregated.
    Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 14 Sep. 2026
Adjective
  • The less talent a team has the more disciplined those on the roster have to be.
    Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Hynde was a disciplined performer, and the guys enjoyed the perks of rock celebrity.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 14 Sep. 2026

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“Centered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/centered. Accessed 18 Sep. 2026.

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