commits

present tense third-person singular of commit
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as in pledges
to obligate by prior agreement we were committed to finishing the project

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Recent Examples of commits And in the season opener, Annis and Wright went up against a pair of Class of 2027 Hurricanes commits in McArthur’s Jaylyn Jones and Sherrod Gourdine. Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 22 Aug. 2026 The renewal commits Verstappen to Red Bull into the next decade and continues their long-standing partnership that dates back to when the Dutchman raced in Formula 3 as a 16-year-old. Alex Kalinauckas, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026 If somebody commits murder or mass murder, what’s the difference? Leah Asmelash, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2026 Before Orange County commits public tourism-tax dollars on that scale, Eatonville’s ownership, operating authority and control over how its history is presented must be guaranteed, not left as a future promise. John W. Beacham, The Orlando Sentinel, 19 Aug. 2026 Section 250 expands on that by dictating that a corporation or partnership may be held liable when a senior manager commits any crime — not just economic offenses — while acting under actual or apparent authority. Nana Ama Sarfo, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026 If panzanella is already an argument for eating bread and oil for dinner, frying the bread simply commits to the premise. Lillian Syme, Bon Appetit Magazine, 17 Aug. 2026 Plenty among us, as our country commits atrocities across the globe, might relate. Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2026 The 2022 Russia-Syria extradition treaty, signed during Assad’s reign, commits each country to extraditing each other’s criminals. Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 11 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for commits
Verb
  • In moderate traffic conditions, BlueCruise executes all of the above smoothly and predictably without requiring driver input.
    Brooke Crothers, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026
  • Assume, further, that management executes well and that the efficiencies are real.
    Joseph M. Singer, HollywoodReporter, 25 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The African National Congress’ 2026 local government elections manifesto pledges free basic services to nearly 30 million people — water, electricity, sanitation, garbage removal.
    Tiisetso Motsoeneng, semafor.com, 24 Aug. 2026
  • The developer pledges to build a public plaza and a new CTA bus stop.
    Lauren Victory, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Xenex LightStrike Infections acquired inside hospitals remain a serious problem, especially when harmful germs survive on surfaces after a patient leaves a room.
    Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 30 Aug. 2026
  • Measles spreads through the air and can remain in a room for up to two hours after an infected person leaves.
    Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 30 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The King imprisons the miller’s daughter in a room and orders her to prove her magical ability under pain of death.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2026
  • County leaders vowed to legally oppose the facility, pointing to county zoning laws that do not allow for detention centers or any type of facility that holds or imprisons people on county land.
    Luis Melecio-Zambrano, Mercury News, 28 May 2026
Verb
  • But when a defendant has already demonstrated months or years of compliance, courts should at least ask whether immediate custody accomplishes anything that voluntary surrender would not.
    Walter Pavlo, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Donating, as many do, to check a box or as a reputation-building exercise accomplishes very little.
    James Chen, Fortune, 9 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • As the Ulchi Freedom Shield exercises proceed, North Korea denounces them as invasion rehearsals, launches missiles and vows stronger deterrence, even as analysts say scaling back drills could weaken long-term allied readiness.
    Hyung-Jin Kim, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Trump denies that there’s a weapons shortage, and vows to hunt down whoever leaked details of the weapons shortage that definitely doesn’t exist.
    Rachel Marsden, Hartford Courant, 15 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The consultant reasons by filling a notebook with calculations, then hands you a one-sentence answer, and keeps the notebook.
    Adam Fish, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2026
  • One day, a stranger hands you a tablet and asks you to identify the correct words in a passage or find information in a chart.
    Jennifer D. Kobrin, The Conversation, 25 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The facility is one of 11 Kentucky jails that contract with ICE to detain people.
    Monroe Trombly, Louisville Courier Journal, 24 Feb. 2026
  • China, which jails human rights activists in Hong Kong, persecutes Uyghurs, has killed hundreds of thousands of Tibetans and has committed genocide against the Falun Gong, is on the UN Human Rights Council.
    Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 18 Feb. 2026

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“Commits.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/commits. Accessed 31 Aug. 2026.

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