DEEMED Synonyms: 36 Similar and Opposite Words

deemed

verb

past tense of deem

as in believed

to have as an opinion I deem it fitting that we mark this solemn occasion with a day of prayer and thanksgiving

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Recent Examples of deemed The collapse of the AMOC has been deemed a climate tipping point after which there will be irreversible ecological damage. —

Devika Rao, TheWeek, 22 June 2026 The Guthrie family received two notes that were sent to Tucson media outlets that investigators deemed potentially credible and the FBI had tried to trace their origin. —

Josh Margolin, ABC News, 22 June 2026 Seven of the last remaining patients remained there voluntarily, but Perryman was forced to stay as the result of a controversial quarantine order that was deemed unnecessary even by some health officials. —

Josh Funk, Chicago Tribune, 22 June 2026 This inspection happened June 11 and was deemed as an emergency suspension by the city. —

Rashad Alexander, Kansas City Star, 22 June 2026 JetBlue’s expansion move in Fort Lauderdale coincides with the airline’s downsizing in the Greater New York area, a region that management has deemed costly to operate. —

David Lyons, Sun Sentinel, 22 June 2026 Uruguay tied again, this time a 2-2 stalemate against another adversary that less than two weeks ago, pretty much every soccer pundit would have deemed inferior. —

Andre Fernandez, Miami Herald, 22 June 2026 Indeed, the history of American politics is littered with ostensible golden ages—the Era of Good Feelings, the Roaring Twenties, the postwar ’50s—that can only be deemed such by our total exclusion. —

Ta-Nehisi Coates, Vanity Fair, 15 June 2026 The postal service also can suspend delivery to homes or neighborhoods deemed unsafe because of loose dogs. —

Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 15 June 2026

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Alicent mistakenly believed Viserys was talking about their son Aegon II, saying Aegon II should be on the throne after Viserys dies, which lead to the Dance of the Dragons civil war.

— Skyler Trepel, PEOPLE, 22 June 2026
To showcase that connection, the museum is displaying a Revolutionary War sword from the Moulton family, which is being publicly presented for the first time and is believed to have been commissioned by George Washington.

— Penny E Schwartz, Oc Register, 21 June 2026