consulted

past tense of consult
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as in used
to use or seek out as a source of aid, relief, or advantage I often consult the dictionary when I am uncertain of a word's exact meaning

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Recent Examples of consulted Threshold Acoustics consulted with Brandt and flute and piccolo player Jennifer Gunn. ABC News, 9 July 2026 Songwriter and producer Munson Steed consulted Dunn on promoting music for a local artist. Deasia Paige, AJC.com, 9 July 2026 Chan has also consulted for a number of fashion brands, advising them on media and marketing strategy. Tim Chan, Footwear News, 9 July 2026 Additional organizations that have typically been consulted about NPS projects near the Mall, like the National Mall Coalition and The Cultural Landscape Foundation, requested to be consulted, emails reviewed by NPR show. Chiara Eisner, NPR, 8 July 2026 That’s why the show’s costume designer, Sara Byblow, consulted frequently with the original film’s fashion lead, Sophie De Rakoff. Madeline Hirsch, InStyle, 7 July 2026 Also in the early 1990s, Potter consulted at Universal Studios Hollywood on various projects, including the original versions of Beetlejuice’s Rockin’ Graveyard Revue and The Blues Brothers Show. Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 7 July 2026 For Nanea, a Hawaiian girl in the 1940s, the company consulted a Pearl Harbor witness. Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 3 July 2026 In response, cruise staff increased cleaning and disinfection procedures, isolated ill passengers and crew members, and consulted with the CDC on sanitation procedures and reporting cases, according to the CDC. Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for consulted
Verb
  • The court’s majority rejected the argument that widespread use of the guns necessarily conferred constitutional protection.
    Jeremy Gorner, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2026
  • The shoes featured several buckles, and material along the side of the upper which conferred a certain futuristic vibe.
    Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 30 June 2026
Verb
  • The Hyundai Motor Company used one of the world’s largest sporting stages to showcase its robotics ambitions.
    Clemente Lisi, Forbes.com, 6 July 2026
  • For instance, in Berkeley, neighbors used CEQA — citing potential noise impact from partying students — to delay, for years, UC Berkeley’s construction of student dorms on People’s Park.
    Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026
Verb
  • Moreover, Kansas City had not discussed any sister city partnership arrangements with the Algerians, according to a statement from a spokesperson for Kansas City mayor Quinton Lucas.
    PJ Green July 14, Kansas City Star, 14 July 2026
  • Balazs discussed the evolution of marketing’s scope beyond campaigns into enterprise-level decisions, from technology and data infrastructure to workflow design and capital allocation alongside creative and media.
    Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 14 July 2026
Verb
  • For that project, contractors poured new, tinted concrete for the bottom of the pool and utilized a hydrophilic joint sealing strip, Hydrotite, from the New Jersey company Sika.
    Maura Judkis, Washington Post, 16 July 2026
  • But the company has never put a number to the amount of projects that have utilized AI and have actual shots enhanced by generative AI within them, especially considering none of those series have previously been disclosed as containing AI.
    Brian Welk, IndieWire, 16 July 2026
Verb
  • Both of the soon-to-be newlyweds have talked openly about wanting to have kids.
    Bryan West, USA Today, 4 July 2026
  • Gyllenhaal received the President’s Award on Friday at the festival’s opening night ceremony, and talked to the international press on Saturday in a suite at the neo-baroque Grand Hotel Pupp in Karlovy Vary.
    Carole Horst, Variety, 4 July 2026

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“Consulted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/consulted. Accessed 17 Jul. 2026.

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