converted

past tense of convert
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as in influenced
to persuade to change to one's religious faith young missionaries who go door-to-door trying to convert people

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Recent Examples of converted Desperately needing a win to avoid falling to 0-4 in Big 12 conference play, the Jayhawks converted five of those attempts. — Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 25 Oct. 2026 His device converted sound into electrical signals that could travel over wires and be converted back into speech. — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 25 Oct. 2026 Rather than kick the extra point to tie it up and likely send the game to overtime, Statesboro converted a two-point attempt. — Mcclain Baxley For The Ajc, AJC.com, 25 Oct. 2026 Atlanta promptly scored a touchdown and converted the two-point attempt. — Dan Zaksheske Outkick, FOXNews.com, 25 Oct. 2026 That could include existing commercial buildings that had been converted into homes, such as condos or townhomes. — Audrey McGlinchy, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2026 The Wolf Pack converted five third downs on the 16-play, 64-yard drive. — ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026 Williams converted two free throws with just over 4 seconds left to seal it. — Janie McCauley, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2026 Simon rotated a telescope towards the night sky while photodiodes detected light from planets and stars—which was then converted into an electrical signal with an analog amplifier. — Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 16 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for converted
Verb
  • Anderson rose to prominence in the early 1980s with a traditional country sound influenced by artists including Merle Haggard and George Jones.
    — Bradford Betz, FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Many of the artists Anderson influenced throughout his prolific career took to social media following news of his death.
    — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 22 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • In some neighborhoods, as many as one-fourth of housing options have been transformed into short-term rentals.
    — Hannah Knowles, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2026
  • The elder Lewis eventually transformed the ranch into a commercial complex and started renting space to businesses.
    — Alene Tchekmedyian, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • But my encounter with Washington’s new generation has persuaded me of how deeply this party is now shaped by the ideological pillars of MAGA.
    — semafor.com, semafor.com, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Mamut and Grönberg were persuaded by Paul Best, a new arrival at Elliott, who believed that the eclipse of brick-and-mortar retail by online commerce had been overstated, and that certain chains could flourish if well capitalized.
    — Nathan Heller, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • In the postwar decades, humans seized ecosystems at breakneck speed—forests were felled, prairies plowed, wetlands drained.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Also unfinished are the high-speed rail and the Delta tunnel, major environmental infrastructure projects that have been seized upon by right-wing media as evidence of Newsom’s failures.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • View this post on Instagram Because of the news of her divorce, the post trickled through the celebrity gossip outlets, and that coverage in turn propagated the post through Google search.
    — Mia Sato, The Verge, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Cultivation The plant grows naturally on riverbeds, grasslands, and human-disturbed areas; it can be propagated from both seeds and stem cuttings.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 9 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Kamala Harris’ defeat convinced some Democratic strategists, like the big-tenters at Third Way and the Searchlight Institute, that Democratic candidates were too easily moved by activists, and that voters held this against them.
    — David Weigel, semafor.com, 19 Oct. 2026
  • Clinical trials cost millions of dollars, so companies first must be convinced the drugs look promising enough for FDA approval, as well as have an edge over current medications.
    — Amy Maxmen, Miami Herald, 19 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Police confiscated the robot and two cell phones belonging to the suspects.
    — Escher Walcott, PEOPLE, 14 Oct. 2026
  • The robot and the two young men's mobile phones were confiscated.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 13 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The National Federation of Federal Employees and several individual USDA employees sued the department on May 13, alleging that Secretary Brooke Rollins has illegally proselytized workers.
    — BrieAnna J. Frank, USA Today, 13 May 2026
  • The two firms that have proselytized the recapitalization of enterprise software the most in this field are Thoma Bravo, with about $184 billion in assets, and Vista Equity Partners, with about $100 billion.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 1 Mar. 2026

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“Converted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/converted. Accessed 26 Oct. 2026.

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