coapted

past tense of coapt

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for coapted
Verb
  • The canal connected increasingly specialized regions in the early US, explains historian Roger Ransom.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Coming off of a Game 4 performance in the NLCS which still has baseball fans marveling, Dodgers two-way star Shohei Ohtani connected on a two-run home run in the next half inning to cut into the Jays’ big lead.
    Jacob Lev, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • If, as Lloyd Matthews has argued, America’s founding ideals of liberty are intimately linked to Julius Caesar, that connection should remind us that such liberty requires due process to function properly.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 23 Oct. 2025
  • They’ve been linked to high-profile actors, directors and producers like Gwyneth Paltrow, Michelle Williams, Bryce Dallas Howard, Judd Apatow, Evan Goldberg and Peter Chernin.
    Trey Williams, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In 2023, Kim and North joined forces for another mother-daughter costume, this time dressing as characters from the rom-com Clueless.
    Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 26 Oct. 2025
  • More than 600 Middlebury students had also joined an online group to share updates of the extensive effort to find Smith, WPTZ reported.
    Joshua Rhett Miller, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Moreover, Congress is united in firmly backing Taiwan’s de facto independence.
    Charlie Campbell, Time, 23 Oct. 2025
  • These were states that united separately from the union during the American Civil War, following the election of Abraham Lincoln, in opposition to the movement seeking to end the institution of slavery, which at the time was integral to the Southern economy.
    Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Game 3 is a must-win as the series is currently tied at one, and the winner of Monday's game will immediately be put in the best position to take home a World Series title.
    Valentina Martinez, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Oct. 2025
  • The newlywed woman and her new husband tied the knot in a civil ceremony at their property.
    Ashlyn Robinette, PEOPLE, 28 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Participants adhered well, spending 73 percent of the study in ketosis.
    Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Unfortunately, during his journey, Vasi encountered a wire snare trap, which ended up clamped around his back leg in September 2019.
    Kelli Bender, PEOPLE, 11 Oct. 2025
  • One of the two animals ended up with part of Hohl's head inside its mouth, with its jaws clamped around his cheek and skull, while the other clamped onto his left ankle.
    Becca Longmire, People.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Their hoods are covered with special plugs where 2,200 corals grown at the Miami Native Coral Lab in Allapattah will be screwed in.
    Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The Broncos got screwed on an interference call that placed the ball on the 1-yard line.
    Troy Renck, Denver Post, 20 Oct. 2025
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“Coapted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coapted. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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