crowned

verb

past tense of crown
as in finished
to bring to a triumphant conclusion the Olympic Games were crowned by spectacular closing ceremonies

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Recent Examples of crowned Who will be crowned this year’s winner and take home a life-changing cash prize? — Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 13 Aug. 2026 Mills was crowned the winner and the teammates hugged out their differences. — Pj Green, Kansas City Star, 13 Aug. 2026 Myki Meeks was crowned as the winner, taking home a $200,000 grand prize. — Matt Minton, Variety, 12 Aug. 2026 One male and one female athlete are to be crowned champions, with the two winners receiving $250,000 in scholarship prize money to be divided between them. — Joey Garrison, USA Today, 11 Aug. 2026 The strike ended the season and cancelled the World Series (the first time since 1904 that no world champion was crowned). — Diego Lasarte, New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2026 Boltinhouse, of Beulaville, was crowned Miss North Carolina USA on June 28, just over one month before she was removed. — Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 8 Aug. 2026 There will now be two Division II brackets, and two state champions will be crowned. — Charles Baggarly august 6, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Aug. 2026 Once the champions are crowned, the tennis world will shift its focus to the bright lights and big city of New York. — Hanlon Walsh, Midwest Living, 6 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crowned
  1. finished
  2. culminated
  3. completed
  4. concluded
Verb
  • Taylor Ruck swam the freestyle leg for Canada and picked up her third bronze of the night, having previously finished third in the 50-meter butterfly and 100-meter backstroke.
    — Peter Baugh, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Freeman stayed in the game and finished the top of the eighth, but Tommy Edman pinch hit for him in the bottom of the inning before Los Angeles closed out a 4-2 victory over the Kansas City Royals, its fourth in five games.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of finished
Verb
  • And yet, if income tax cuts culminated with Reagan, inheritance tax cuts only began with him.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 Aug. 2026
  • That resistance culminated earlier this year in the form of massive protests after the killings of Good and Pretti.
    — Phillip M. Bailey, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of culminated
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  • The restoration was completed in May of 2025 and the hotel has earned a Michelin Key, the ultimate achievement such as a Michelin star is to restaurants.
    — Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Semenyo had already completed a prolific season in England’s Premier League, scoring 17 league goals to take over boyhood idol Tony Yeboah’s long-standing record for most scored by a Ghanaian in a single season.
    — Andrew McNicol, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of completed
Verb
  • The incident came one day after the DEF CON security conference concluded in Las Vegas, and was first described on social media accounts that follow publicly available air-to-ground messages, known as ACARS.
    — Cyrus Farivar, ArsTechnica, 12 Aug. 2026
  • The South Korean government investigation concluded that this was an institutional problem – mostly handled by one employee but done with the organization’s approval.
    — Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of concluded

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