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as in executes
to carry through (as a process) to completion
accused of committing a felony
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as in leaves
to put (something) into the possession or safekeeping of another
commit only some power to each official
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as in imprisons
to put in or as if in prison
The defendant was committed to prison following the guilty verdict.
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Recent Examples of commits
These last-minute phone calls by schools telling commits there’s no longer a spot have become more frequent, especially because college baseball has changing roster rules.
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Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2026
In Adolescence, Graham plays Eddie Miller, a father who is blindsided when his 13 year-old son Jamie (Owen Cooper) commits a terrible crime.
—Antonia Blyth, Deadline, 11 Jan. 2026
So if a player commits on a visit, the player must wait until at least the next day to sign.
—Sam Khan Jr, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2026
Timothée Chalamet commits so hard.
—Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 8 Jan. 2026
Once a celebrity commits to being on the show, The Masked Singer team goes through their life history to pick the perfect look.
—Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE, 7 Jan. 2026
Indiana, comparatively, has brought in 54 portal commits in the two cycles since Cignetti’s appointment, and looks likely to approach those numbers again in the 2026 cycle, with nine commits as of Tuesday night.
—David Eckert, Austin American Statesman, 7 Jan. 2026
What International Patients Experience The moment someone commits to flying to another country for surgery, logistics become personal.
—Nia Bowers, Miami Herald, 31 Dec. 2025
The idea is that despite partisan differences, every legislator commits in front of the others to uphold the Constitution.
—Jennifer Selin, The Conversation, 7 Nov. 2025
Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2026
In Adolescence, Graham plays Eddie Miller, a father who is blindsided when his 13 year-old son Jamie (Owen Cooper) commits a terrible crime.
—Antonia Blyth, Deadline, 11 Jan. 2026
So if a player commits on a visit, the player must wait until at least the next day to sign.
—Sam Khan Jr, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2026
Timothée Chalamet commits so hard.
—Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 8 Jan. 2026
Once a celebrity commits to being on the show, The Masked Singer team goes through their life history to pick the perfect look.
—Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE, 7 Jan. 2026
Indiana, comparatively, has brought in 54 portal commits in the two cycles since Cignetti’s appointment, and looks likely to approach those numbers again in the 2026 cycle, with nine commits as of Tuesday night.
—David Eckert, Austin American Statesman, 7 Jan. 2026
What International Patients Experience The moment someone commits to flying to another country for surgery, logistics become personal.
—Nia Bowers, Miami Herald, 31 Dec. 2025
The idea is that despite partisan differences, every legislator commits in front of the others to uphold the Constitution.
—Jennifer Selin, The Conversation, 7 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for commits
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The firm also named it one of its top picks for 2026 as the company executes its turnaround.—
Fred Imbert,
CNBC,
5 Jan. 2026
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At its core, a processor is a computing engine that executes instructions to complete tasks.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Jan. 2026
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This interpretation of the events pledges fealty to the source material, sometimes at the expense of character development, but the film’s all-star cast is more than equipped to pick up the slack.—
Lia Beck,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 Dec. 2025
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The bill also pledges to provide funding in 2027 to reduce premiums, particularly for low-income enrollees.—
Bart Jansen,
USA Today,
12 Dec. 2025
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The end of Pittsburgh’s season leaves a rather large elephant in the room.—
Kevin Dotson,
CNN Money,
13 Jan. 2026
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Measles can live in the air for up to two hours after someone infected with measles leaves the room, according to the health department.—
Alexandra Simon,
CBS News,
12 Jan. 2026
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Afwerki routinely imprisons his critics and political opponents and has implemented a policy of indefinite mandatory military and national service for residents, which human-rights watchdogs say amounts to slavery.—
Zak Cheney-Rice,
Vulture,
6 Nov. 2025
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Shining a laser through a person’s head seems like the first step towards technology that accomplishes both.—
Perri Thaler,
IEEE Spectrum,
21 Dec. 2025
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While this accomplishes the goal of giving bettors a desirable user experience, the barriers to entry to become an oddsmaker seem to contradict an insistence that prediction markets are open, peer-to-peer and not gambling.—
Dan Bernstein,
Sportico.com,
16 Dec. 2025
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Microsoft vows to limit data center energy costs US tech giants, under pressure from politicians and communities, vowed to take more aggressive steps to keep their data centers from hiking electricity costs.—
Tim McDonnell,
semafor.com,
13 Jan. 2026
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Opposition vows change of government Separately, Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan leader Yoshihiko Noda vowed to oust the ruling coalition in an NHK interview, while raising expectations of an alliance with Komeito, the LDP’s former coalition partner.—
Lim Hui Jie,
CNBC,
12 Jan. 2026
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Instead, someone hands me a wooden pole with a piece of foam taped around one end and mimes poking the machine in its chest.—
James Vincent,
Harpers Magazine,
30 Dec. 2025
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In the video, the person hands a high-velocity Ball Bearing (BB) gun to his robot, Max, and asks it to shoot him.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Dec. 2025
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New York storyteller Laura Sims leads workshops and performs stories on Saturday and Sunday during the Atlanta Jewish Storytelling Festival at The Breman.—
Mary Caldwell,
AJC.com,
7 Jan. 2026
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Mindy performs in this scene wearing a pair of Jimmy Choo’s Sacaria platform sandals.—
Jaden Thompson,
Footwear News,
6 Jan. 2026
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“Commits.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/commits. Accessed 21 Jan. 2026.
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