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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
The Navy confirmed that the carrier had completed the work and returned to the fleet in September 2026. Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 18 Sep. 2026 With the film grossing more than $350 million worldwide, the duo recently completed the script for a sequel. Matt Grobar, Deadline, 17 Sep. 2026 Architect Giuseppe Mengoni completed the landmark in 1877, though its soaring iron-and-glass cruciform vault had already begun connecting the Piazza del Duomo to Piazza della Scala a decade earlier. Eleonora Giordani, Vogue, 17 Sep. 2026 Curcio pitched and won last year’s inaugural competition, and then was faced with the challenge of getting his microbudget film completed in less than a year. William Earl, Variety, 17 Sep. 2026 The 18 lower receivers were described in the affidavit as unfinished polymer components that had not been serialized like ordinary completed lower receivers. Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 17 Sep. 2026 That recall has been completed, according to the FDA’s website. Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 17 Sep. 2026 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for completed
Adjective
  • At the beginning of Roman's design process, the fuel capacity was chosen to permit a maximum mass of 21,605 pounds (9,800 kilograms), yet the finished spacecraft came in lighter at 17,760 pounds (8,065 kilograms).
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 15 Sep. 2026
  • While a language model can learn from a finished document or piece of code, an agent needs to learn how to choose actions, use tools, respond to intermediate results and recover from mistakes.
    Wen Shao, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Many of its stations look as though they were built for the tsars, clad in precious marble and adorned with mosaics, crystal chandeliers, sculptures, and gilded moldings.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2026
  • So, like many of the girls my age, my bedroom walls were adorned with posters of Britney Spears, the Pussycat Dolls, and the Spice Girls.
    Megan Feringa, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The escalation ended a 2022 ceasefire that largely ended fighting in Yemen's civil war, which started when the Houthis swept in from their mountainous heartland and seized much of northern and central Yemen, including Sanaa, 12 years ago.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 21 Sep. 2026
  • The conflict, which ended the following year, claimed over 100,000 lives and contributed to famine in the region.
    Adrian Elimian, semafor.com, 21 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The Courant asked to interview Santiago and Braswell, but our request was not fulfilled in time for this article.
    Livi Stanford, Hartford Courant, 20 Sep. 2026
  • The former security chief fulfilled Beijing’s long-standing imperative to enact a homegrown national security law in 2024.
    ABC News, ABC News, 16 Sep. 2026
Adjective
  • Many organizations don’t have a complete inventory of where cryptography is being used today.
    Evgeny Gervis, Forbes.com, 22 Sep. 2026
  • Once that happens, the attackers have the token that gives complete control over the Muse account.
    Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 21 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The translucent, lightweight Celium Manto and denser, more tactile Celium Espumante complemented a collection informed by Mexican identity, craftsmanship and Charro culture.
    Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Renshaw’s 109 off 94 balls was complemented by Cooper Connolly’s 51 that gave Australia a total of 294-8 in its first one-day cricket international in Zimbabwe in 12 years.
    ABC News, ABC News, 15 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Independent analysis has concluded that recent Russian elections — including the 2024 presidential contest, in which officials said Putin secured more than 87 percent of the vote — were fraudulent.
    Barry Svrluga, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026
  • But a recent working paper analyzing the results of 42 different studies concluded that school meal programs in high-income economies had minimal effects on students’ behavioral, health or educational outcomes.
    Ari Sen, Scientific American, 15 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The Jets tried to trade him during the summer, but were never able to get the deal that satisfied Kevin Cheveldayoff.
    Max Bultman, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026
  • 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

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“Completed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/completed. Accessed 23 Sep. 2026.

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