CONDUCTED Synonyms: 123 Similar and Opposite Words

conducted

verb

past tense of conduct

as in operated

to look after and make decisions about the company's president continues to conduct the everyday affairs of the software firm he founded many years ago

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as in directed

to cause to move to a central point or along a restricted pathway the gutter conducts water to the curb, thus protecting the house's basement

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as in behaved

to manage the actions of (oneself) in a particular way conducted themselves at the party like perfect ladies and gentlemen

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as in steered

to point out the way for (someone) especially from a position in front a job conducting tourists through the historical museum

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as in transmitted

to cause (something) to pass from one to another a material that conducts heat quite efficiently

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Recent Examples of conducted No homes had been lost, and Utah Fire Info, a multiagency operation, said in a post on X that firefighters conducted a successful back-burn operation to protect the town. —

Valerie Gonzalez, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2026 Defense attorney Michael Burt had argued a video deposition prosecutors conducted with a key witness is hearsay evidence and should not be admissible, as the witness could not be subject to cross-examination. —

Andi Babineau, CNN Money, 22 June 2026 Astronauts recently conducted experiments aimed to improve understanding of a ball's aerodynamics and physics while in flight. —

Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 22 June 2026 Duckett’s attorneys this spring said an evidentiary hearing was needed after DNA tests conducted in March — ones not available at the time of their client’s arrest decades ago — and the results reviewed by a second lab last month showed inconclusive results as to whether Duckett’s DNA was present. —

Martin E. Comas, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 June 2026 An autopsy conducted Monday positively identified Destiny Neal but the manner of death remains under investigation, the office’s statement said. —

Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 22 June 2026 Police later located Ellis traveling southbound on Dupont Parkway near Paddock Road in Smyrna and conducted a traffic stop. —

Matt Cavallo, CBS News, 22 June 2026 The screening will be accompanied by a new score, composed and conducted by Timothy Brock, among the world’s top experts in film music (see video above). —

Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 22 June 2026 Not really Dagmar Bruss, professor and Head of the Quantum Information Theory group at HHU, and her doctoral researcher, Pedro Barrios Hita, conducted a new analysis of the postulates used in the 2021 paper and found one to be too restrictive. —

Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 22 June 2026

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Pakistan has operated as a major mediator in US-Iran talks since a ceasefire was first announced.

— Mitchell McCluskey, CNN Money, 21 June 2026
Zelenskyy issued a decree on May 26 naming a military unit of Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces after the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, or UPA, which operated during the 1940s and 1950s and has been accused in Poland of mass killings.

— ABC News, ABC News, 20 June 2026