CREATED Synonyms: 94 Similar and Opposite Words

created

verb

past tense of create

as in caused

to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind) it was your negligence that created this mess

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Recent Examples of created The delay again has created a potential cash crunch for districts during the wait for their cut — often a main revenue source for local governments — and added to the pile of complaints about the county’s decade-long property tax system upgrade. — A.d. Quig, Chicago Tribune, 20 Sep. 2026 Bees take advantage of vegetation and openings in forest canopies created by disturbances such as disease, storms, wind, beavers and fire. — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 20 Sep. 2026 And by the way, Congresswoman Salazar readily admits that Joe Biden created the mess. — ABC News, 20 Sep. 2026 Past attempts to fix this flaw created a frustrating dilemma. — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 20 Sep. 2026 This content was created by a team that works independently from the FOX newsroom. — Armando Salguero Outkick, FOXNews.com, 15 Sep. 2026 The use of chemical weapons would add to mounting human rights abuses and atrocities by both sides in a war that has created the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. — Lauren Morganbesser, semafor.com, 6 Sep. 2026 In May 2020, Naming the Lost, a public art project, created temporary memorials to casualties in all five boroughs. — Robert W. Snyder, New York Daily News, 6 Sep. 2026 The last major dam built in California, which created New Melones Lake, was completed almost 50 years ago. — Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 6 Sep. 2026

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State law allows heirs or personal representatives of people who die to file lawsuits seeking damages if the death was caused by a wrongful act or negligence.

— CBS News, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2026
Sweeney caused a stir last year with her American Eagle advertisement focused on jeans.

— Mason Leib, ABC News, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of caused

Verb

During July’s heat wave, South Fork Wind generated nearly 10 gigawatt hours of power for Long Island’s grid to help manage peak demand.

— Mark Levine, New York Daily News, 20 Sep. 2026
By 2024, Connecticut generated nearly 45% of all electricity produced in New England, more than any other state.

— Joe McGee, Hartford Courant, 20 Sep. 2026

Definition of generated

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In other cases, Virginia prosecutors have previously brought their own expert witnesses to counter an insanity defense at trials or even disputed the claims without their own expert, according to reports and court records.

— Hudson Crozier, The Washington Examiner, 21 Sep. 2026
Ferd & Gladys Alpert Jewish Family Service (Alpert JFS) brought MHFA to Palm Beach County in 2014 and has since trained thousands of community members (at no cost) to be that first line of support.

— Courtney Marx, Sun Sentinel, 20 Sep. 2026

Definition of brought

Verb

For some, it’s prompted by changes at work or market uncertainty.

— Angela C. Hill, Forbes.com, 22 Sep. 2026
Tensions in the South China Sea escalated again Friday after a Chinese Coast Guard vessel collided with a Philippine government ship, an encounter captured on video that prompted competing accounts from Manila and Beijing.

— Bradford Betz, FOXNews.com, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of prompted

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That garden spawned an annual salsa competition, in which club employees harvest their own ingredients from the planters, make salsa at home, and bring it back to be judged.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2026
The series started out as a 1996 horror video game that has spawned several sequels, spinoffs and remakes, in addition to adaptation across film and TV.

— Jordan Moreau, Variety, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of spawned

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These unaltered cosmic fingerprints let researchers map the temperatures, environmental conditions, and chemical reservoirs that produced organic matter billions of years ago.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 22 Sep. 2026
Georgia’s political center of gravity is shifting from rural communities that produced generations of the state’s most powerful leaders toward Atlanta and its sprawling suburbs.

— Greg Bluestein, AJC.com, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of produced

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Gerber worked as a model, including in 2018, at age 18, as the face of Calvin Klein Jeans’ global advertising campaign, along with his sister, Kaia Gerber.

— Assistant Editor, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2026
Capturing wave energy Simulations showed that the strategy worked across a surprisingly broad range of wave frequencies.

— Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 21 Sep. 2026

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