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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
  • 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
  • Season five ended abruptly after a video leaked of Taylor Frankie Paul throwing a stool at her ex Dakota Mortensen and almost hitting her daughter.
    Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Oklahoma State ended its 21-game losing streak against FBS opponents with a 39-31 victory over Oregon.
    Michael Cunningham, AJC.com, 14 Sep. 2026
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  • Or maybe Sheriff Kane fulfilled her debt to Zoe not by rallying the town around her in 2016, but by killing her target in 2026?
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 13 Sep. 2026
  • Men and boys fulfilled traditional roles around a large circular drum, beating it rhythmically.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2026
Adjective
  • So the first question was whether a single party should ever hold a complete key, and therefore complete control over a client’s assets.
    Sergey Stopnevich, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Election officials have said there was simply no way to carry out a complete overhaul in the weeks before the midterms.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 15 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
  • 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
  • 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 17 Sep. 2026.

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