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as in corresponded
to be in agreement on every point
their story of what happened checks with the report of the eyewitness
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as in stopped
to bring (something) to a standstill
a tree finally checked the skidding car
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as in contained
to keep from exceeding a desirable degree or level (as of expression)
check your enthusiasm a bit, and think before you marry someone you just met
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Recent Examples of checked
Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 28 Apr. 2026
After making his train journey from Los Angeles to DC, Blanche said, the suspect checked into the Washington Hilton, which hosts the annual correspondents’ dinner.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 27 Apr. 2026
Members of the transit agency’s Evasion And Graffiti Lawlessness Eradication teams — known as the Eagle Teams — have long checked for fare payment on SBS buses.
—Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 27 Apr. 2026
Several attendees told me that their names were not cross-checked against a master list, and no one checked their ID.
—Shane Harris, The Atlantic, 27 Apr. 2026
New Zealand posted a challenging 182-6, after 51 apiece from Dane Cleaver and novice opener Katene Clarke, and appeared set for victory as its bowlers checked Bangladesh’s top order to 77-3 in the 11th over.
—ABC News, 27 Apr. 2026
Waitstaff have to be vetted, background checked, and given pins for access to certain guests.
—Nicole Sganga, CBS News, 27 Apr. 2026
Once inside the hotel, dinner guests had their tickets checked at multiple points to gain access to the ballroom.
—George Petras, USA Today, 26 Apr. 2026
After making his train journey from Los Angeles to DC, Blanche said, the suspect checked into the Washington Hilton, which hosts the annual correspondents’ dinner.
—Alayna Treene, CNN Money, 26 Apr. 2026
Verb
Texas Tech football was thrust into a national controversy this week when transfer quarterback Brendan Sorsby checked into gambling addiction rehab.
—Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 28 Apr. 2026
After making his train journey from Los Angeles to DC, Blanche said, the suspect checked into the Washington Hilton, which hosts the annual correspondents’ dinner.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 27 Apr. 2026
Members of the transit agency’s Evasion And Graffiti Lawlessness Eradication teams — known as the Eagle Teams — have long checked for fare payment on SBS buses.
—Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 27 Apr. 2026
Several attendees told me that their names were not cross-checked against a master list, and no one checked their ID.
—Shane Harris, The Atlantic, 27 Apr. 2026
New Zealand posted a challenging 182-6, after 51 apiece from Dane Cleaver and novice opener Katene Clarke, and appeared set for victory as its bowlers checked Bangladesh’s top order to 77-3 in the 11th over.
—ABC News, 27 Apr. 2026
Waitstaff have to be vetted, background checked, and given pins for access to certain guests.
—Nicole Sganga, CBS News, 27 Apr. 2026
Once inside the hotel, dinner guests had their tickets checked at multiple points to gain access to the ballroom.
—George Petras, USA Today, 26 Apr. 2026
After making his train journey from Los Angeles to DC, Blanche said, the suspect checked into the Washington Hilton, which hosts the annual correspondents’ dinner.
—Alayna Treene, CNN Money, 26 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for checked
Adjective
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That translates to asking your stylist for something that sits between the lip and chin with a very blunt, controlled perimeter.—
Diana Tsui,
Footwear News,
3 May 2026
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Too bad the script feels less controlled and more directionless when each of these characters go head to head with an increasing body count across several bloody incidents.—
Tomris Laffly,
Variety,
14 Mar. 2026
Verb
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McMahon corresponded with his professors.—
Zach Helfand,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
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Two greats of 17th-century math, Blaise Pascal and Pierre de Fermat, corresponded about the problem in a famous series of letters.—
Jack Murtagh,
Scientific American,
19 Apr. 2026
Verb
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But Crenshaw’s own essay, on the hip-hop group 2 Live Crew, stopped short of calling for censorship.—
Kelefa Sanneh,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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Yet the eye-rolling has stopped.—
Natalie Sum Yue Chung,
Fortune,
3 May 2026
Verb
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The authors argued that the typical American diet contained excessive calories and fat and lacked sufficient amounts of complex carbohydrates and dietary fiber.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
30 Apr. 2026
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Burick and one of his students assemble the base for one of ENIAC’s three portable function tables, which contained banks of switches that stored numerical constants.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
30 Apr. 2026
Verb
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His leadership of Amazon’s cloud business has coincided with the AI boom and the remarkable scramble among cloud providers, including Microsoft, Google, and Oracle, to spend eye-popping sums building data centers and other AI infrastructure.—
Alexei Oreskovic,
Fortune,
29 Apr. 2026
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That shift coincided with declining viewership for his games.—
Bobby Burack OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
29 Apr. 2026
Verb
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More commonly, prescribed burning is halted because Forest Service staff are occupied fighting wildfires.—
Lauren Sommer,
NPR,
4 May 2026
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But while a subsequent ceasefire has largely halted fighting in Iran, Washington and Tehran remain unable to agree to a more secure peace.—
Sylvie Zhuang,
CNN Money,
4 May 2026
Verb
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Though the start of the pandemic soon after halted her momentum, DeVaux kept at it, eventually taking the Breeder’s Cup in 2024.—
Rohan Nadkarni,
NBC news,
3 May 2026
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The fight, though, kept getting delayed.—
Chang-rae Lee,
New Yorker,
3 May 2026
Adjective
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The Santa Fe burrito is a genuine pleasure—more restrained, built on a smaller scale, with green chile doing the complex, vegetal, low-burning work that other versions might leave to salsa—though, again, the tortilla serves its contents, rather than the hosannas going the other way.—
Helen Rosner,
New Yorker,
3 May 2026
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Plus, the more restrained growth of today still comes on top of a much larger business, the Zenith CEO pointed out.—
Lily Templeton,
Footwear News,
1 May 2026
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“Checked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/checked. Accessed 6 May. 2026.
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