covenanted

past tense of covenant
1
as in agreed
to come to an arrangement as to a course of action a traditional rule held that a husband could not enter into a covenant with his wife, because that was the equivalent of covenanting with himself

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2
as in promised
to make a solemn declaration of intent the home buyers had to covenant that they would restore and keep the house for at least 10 years in exchange for a low mortgage rate

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for covenanted
Verb
  • Target agreed to a $5 million settlement and a ban on using geofencing technology to increase prices.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 19 Oct. 2026
  • The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to consider whether Congress had the constitutional authority to impose a ban on distilling spirits in private homes more than 150 years ago.
    — Michael Kunzelman, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2026
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  • When the button promised nothing and would simply delete the photos, the 32-billion-parameter model still chose it 75% of the time.
    — Shae Lake, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Those are safe talking points for the midterms, but hardly the MAHA agenda Kennedy promised to deliver in Washington.
    — David Lim, semafor.com, 22 Oct. 2026
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  • Something like this wouldn’t happen in the major pro leagues, since eligibility rules are collectively bargained between leagues and unions and are thus exempt from antitrust scrutiny.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 21 Oct. 2026
  • The Jefferson County Education Association bargained the provisions after Evergreen became the district's third school shooting, following Columbine High School in 1999 and Deer Creek Middle School in 2010.
    — Anna Alejo, CBS News, 9 Sep. 2026
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  • Those fears were particularly triggered after government officials in some states ruled by the BJP vowed to strike people off assistance programs if they'd been deleted off voter rolls.
    — Diaa Hadid, NPR, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Trump has long vowed to build a border wall along the roughly 2,000-mile length of the southwest border.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 21 Oct. 2026
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  • The body language expert swore that the camp hangouts were positive.
    — Joe Kinsey OutKick, FOXNews.com, 14 Oct. 2026
  • After her split from Gest, Liza swore she wouldn’t get married again.
    — Giovana Gelhoren, InStyle, 27 Sep. 2026
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  • Anthropic made OpenAI's ads push the focus of its first Super Bowl campaign and pledged to keep its competing chatbot, Claude, ad free.
    — Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 21 Oct. 2026
  • New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a Democratic socialist, pledged to make child care free for all residents.
    — Moriah Balingit, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2026
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“Covenanted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/covenanted. Accessed 26 Oct. 2026.

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