changed

past tense of change
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as in shifted
to pass from one form, state, or level to another the weather in New England is constantly changing

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as in exchanged
to give up (something) and take something else in return would you mind changing your seat so my friends can sit together?

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Recent Examples of changed Also check whether the company has changed its privacy policy or added new controls. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 3 Oct. 2026 If records are made to be broken, then stats are made to be changed. — Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2026 The researchers placed them inside YbSb₂ and watched how their spins changed as the material crossed into its superconducting state. — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2026 True-crime media has changed over the last decade, explains Jason Sarlanis, president of Investigation Discovery, which helped produce the series. — Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2026 Tennessee changed its lethal injection protocol in 2024, abandoning its previous three-drug method in favor of the single drug pentobarbital, which slows down a person’s nervous system. — Rena Rowe, The Washington Examiner, 3 Oct. 2026 Minogue then changed into a minidress made from a vintage jersey T-shirt with a lace-up detail down the side, finished with leather piping, corsetry ribbon and gold hotfix crystals. — Patty Huntington, Footwear News, 26 Sep. 2026 And while the platform and culture may have changed, the thrill of the hunt—and occasional buyer’s remorse—has not. — Adam Erace, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2026 After budget deliberations this summer, state legislators changed course and decided to partially fund the program. — Priyanka D McCluskey, NPR, 26 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for changed
Verb
  • Mercedes-Benz Stadium will also be modified to accommodate the team before its inaugural season.
    — Christopher Harris, CBS News, 28 Sep. 2026
  • These devices were first built for high-energy particle physics but later modified to serve as light sources.
    — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 28 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The Dayton area has shed about half of its 90,000 factory jobs since 1990, according to federal data, after the North American Free Trade Agreement shifted many jobs to Mexico where auto parts could be made more cheaply.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2026
  • Against a backdrop of economic uncertainty, consumer priorities have shifted.
    — Joe Bobowicz, Vogue, 2 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The two exchanged photos and talked about their goals for the future.
    — Eamon Javers, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2026
  • A'ja Wilson exchanged words with a fan in Indy after this play.
    — Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Spending one year of AmeriCorps service as a mentor altered her path slightly, but not by much.
    — The Sacramento Bee staff, Sacbee.com, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Furthermore, 62% reported unexpected AI cost spikes that altered strategic business decisions.
    — Aruna Veerappan, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Contamination varied by product type — wet, dry, and air- or freeze-dried — and the type of protein, such as poultry, beef or fish.
    — Sandee LaMotte, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Favorability numbers for the mayor among Latinos has varied in polls.
    — Itzel Luna, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The researchers synthesized two iron tetra-azaphthalocyanines in which nitrogen-containing heterocycles swapped the peripheral benzene rings in conventional iron phthalocyanine.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 29 Sep. 2026
  • On Days of Ash, a drum performance or two was swapped out for a drum machine.
    — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • In 2001, the architecture critic and scholar Robin Middleton bought a former tile factory on East 13th Street and remodeled it to match his unconventional life.
    — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 30 Sep. 2026
  • Parsons gutted the building — which hadn’t been used in a long time — and remodeled the entire building with new floors, walls, lighting, kitchen equipment.
    — Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 28 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Since then, the results have fluctuated between middling and downright putrid, and entering this year, Aranda was said to be on his last leg.
    — Austin Perry OutKick, FOXNews.com, 29 Sep. 2026
  • Suicide rates in the United States generally steadily rose from 2000 to 2018, and have fluctuated and slightly declined since then according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
    — Kristen Rogers, CNN Money, 28 Sep. 2026

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“Changed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/changed. Accessed 6 Oct. 2026.

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