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charted

verb

past tense of chart
1
as in described
to give an oral or written account of in some detail the book charts the years between the two World Wars

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2
as in planned
to work out the details of (something) in advance charted the entire campaign for governor before she even agreed to run

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Recent Examples of charted The pro bono salary certainly suggested this might be a temporary post as the Bruins charted a new course to help balance the athletics budget. — Connor Dullinger, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2026 Beginning in the fall of 2021, the first chapter of Loktev’s documentary epic charted the months leading up to the Ukraine invasion. — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026 Last year, The Athletic charted the connection between spending and winning. — Andy McCullough, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026 Oggy and the Cockroaches outfit Xilam, meanwhile, has Submarine Jim, about a naive young dolphin who takes charge of a submarine that has charted a course for Las Vegas. — Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 3 Sep. 2026 It’s charted for 44 weeks since its release last year with no signs of slowing down. — Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 31 Aug. 2026 The film charted the life and career of Valens, following him from his farm-working roots to chart-topping fame before culminating in tragedy when the rock and roll star died in an infamous plane crash. — Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 26 Aug. 2026 In what many compared to Friends, the series charted the group’s personal and professional lives as each of them attempted to figure out adulthood. — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 25 Aug. 2026 The International Hydrographic Organization — of which both the United States and Canada are members — works to ensure that the world’s seas, oceans and navigable waters are surveyed and charted uniformly, and also names some of them. — Bill Barrow, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for charted
  1. described
  2. planned
  3. chronicled
  4. designed
  5. told
  6. prepared
  7. recounted
  8. plotted
Verb
  • The modern American Dream is best described as a private bunker where the outside world arrives entirely in a cardboard box or a fiber-optic cable.
    — John Mac Ghlionn, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Strahan described the chaos in New York City amid the rescue efforts and the accompanying bomb threats and noted that the Giants could still see smoke from the twin towers from the team’s practice fields.
    — Michael Silver, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of described
Verb
  • The Cinderella dress that Kaitlyn Argyriou’s mother had sewn for her as a child and which Argyriou’s daughter, Avery, 4, had planned to wear trick-or-treating in Colorado Springs on Halloween.
    — Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 5 Sep. 2026
  • The production planned to grab exterior footage outside Broadway’s Music Box Theatre — the film’s principal location — before a New York City blizzard intervened.
    — Clayton Davis, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of planned
Verb
  • The vanishing New York chronicled in the blogs of the mid-aughts has mostly vanished, NYU has colonized large swaths of downtown, and a populace struggling to afford the crushing price of housing has arisen in its wake.
    — David Freedlander, Curbed, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Its huge moves since then have been well chronicled, from the first spike toward 200 to eventually undercutting its IPO price before rising again.
    — Frank Cappelleri, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of chronicled
Verb
  • Ergonomics was about chairs that were built for people, rather than chairs designed to fit efficiently into an office or be simple to stack and move.
    — Kamal Ahmed, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2026
  • By adding a measurable voltage reference, eCOphite is designed to give battery management systems another signal to work with.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of designed
Verb
  • The pound also drew support at the start of the Iran conflict in April on outsized market expectations for a monetary policy response to inflation fears from the Bank of England, Jane Foley, senior FX strategist at Rabobank, told CNBC.
    — Jenni Reid, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2026
  • As an aside, imagine the outcry there would be from Leclerc fans if Ferrari had told him to back up Hamilton.
    — Alex Kalinauckas, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of told
Verb
  • As deputies prepared to have the vehicle towed, one found a small black pouch containing passports and a Social Security card.
    — Dale Ellis, Arkansas Online, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Part of our responsibility as leaders of the club is to be prepared.
    — Chris Waugh, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of prepared
Verb
  • But such calculations were only in the background on the summer day where the university lecturer recounted her health struggles over the past five years.
    — Caleb Hellerman, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Johansson recounted how, during one studio session, Saab picked up a single piece of black fabric and twisted, turned, and draped it into a bustier dress right on the mannequin.
    — Tina Isaac-Goizé, Vogue, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of recounted
Verb
  • During the Hugging Face breach, OpenAI agents autonomously plotted a digital heist that went undetected for more than a week, intensifying concerns OpenAI is sacrificing safety to push the AI frontier.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Emily’s misguided research ultimately proves that love stories can’t be plotted and graphed like science experiments; more modern studio romantic comedies could stand to learn the same lesson.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of plotted

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“Charted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/charted. Accessed 16 Sep. 2026.

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