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completed

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verb

past tense of complete
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as in adorned
to serve as a completing element to the bird's beautiful song simply completes its appeal for pet owners

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as in ended
to bring (an event) to a natural or appropriate stopping point the well-attended concert completed a great weekend of arts and entertainment events

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Recent Examples of completed
Verb
During Villa’s 3-2 victory away to Club Brugge on Tuesday, Suzuki completed a similar action, claiming the ball before throwing to launch a counter. Aston Villa, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026 Police told The Times that the suspect had fled by the time officers arrived, but a trespass report was completed. Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026 Muon Space completed the test on July 1 aboard SERT-III, a dedicated propulsion test spacecraft. Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 10 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for completed
Adjective
  • Sellers with finished films that didn’t earn a slot in the festival itself are now able to host private market screenings of some still big commercial films.
    Brian Welk, IndieWire, 8 Sep. 2026
  • An obsession with discipline—both in the process and finished pieces—has driven her to deliver numerous competition wins for saddlery and wearable arts, and exhibition honors at London's Victoria and Albert Museum.
    Clare Coulson, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Standard Chartered, whose branding has adorned the club’s shirts since the bank replaced brewer Carlsberg in 2010, currently pay Liverpool around £50m per season.
    James Pearce, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Lightning McQueen’s best friend Mater gets a detailed Adizero Impact 2 Mid colorway that’s adorned with rust and patina-like details throughout its Mesa brown upper.
    Riley Jones, Footwear News, 8 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • United ended their four-season sleeve sponsorship with DXC Technology in August, with the team instead wearing the standard Premier League sleeve patches, as required by league regulations, for the opening games.
    Laurie Whitwell, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Disagreements over how to resolve the problem created a political crisis that ended an alliance between leading figures in the government that came to power in 2024.
    Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 7 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The study successfully fulfilled the terms of the National Environmental Policy Act.
    Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 5 Sep. 2026
  • With 29 wins in the previous three seasons and a 47-29 record overall at MU as of Thursday night, Drinkwitz has fulfilled plenty to date.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 4 Sep. 2026
Adjective
  • The hierarchy have applied a couple of touch-ups here and there, adding Germany full-back Nathaniel Brown and Ismael Saibari, who had an impressive World Cup up front for Morocco, but this is a near-complete team.
    James Horncastle, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
  • The Lions controlled the game from start to finish, putting in one of their most complete performances of the season while keeping a dangerous San Diego side from threatening.
    Kyle Foley, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • But Suzuki has the fundamentals and they are complemented by his remarkable distribution, his power, and an elite mindset.
    Aston Villa, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
  • The gold complemented her ethereal lilac chiffon McQueen dress, featuring a sweetheart strapless neckline and flowing layers of delicate fabric.
    Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 10 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Some saw the other cheaters get away with it and concluded the prompt forbidding cheating had no teeth—that there wouldn’t be any punishment for cheating.
    Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Jurors concluded that if NFL teams competed with one another in broadcasting deals, fans would reap the benefits of that competition.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 8 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Instead of recognizing that a 1-paragraph block is not a 10-paragraph block, the generation engine assumed that formatting the technical specifications neatly satisfied the underlying intent.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 4 Sep. 2026
  • The court sent unresolved questions about whether the warrant in that case satisfied constitutional requirements back to a lower court.
    Zachary Bynum, CBS News, 23 Aug. 2026

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“Completed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/completed. Accessed 14 Sep. 2026.

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