deemed

past tense of deem

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of deemed Though all that has changed, the town has managed to preserve its Victorian architecture, and its downtown and waterfront were deemed National Historic Landmarks. Noreen Kompanik, Boston Herald, 19 Oct. 2025 Government employees who are deemed essential — like TSA agents and air traffic controllers — have continued to work, though they won't get paid until the government reopens. Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 18 Oct. 2025 Employees deemed essential to public safety, including military personnel, law enforcement officers, border patrol and air traffic controllers, are required to work regardless. Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA Today, 18 Oct. 2025 However, the league seemingly deemed his actions not punishment-worthy, saving Mahomes from an $11,593 first-offense taunting penalty. Michael Gallagher, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025 Despite the referral from his primary care provider, his symptoms, and his mom’s diagnosis, John was deemed too young for insurance to cover the colonoscopy. Colleen Murphy, Health, 17 Oct. 2025 The company targets insurance markets deemed risky, with policies covering properties valued at a total of $1 billion in wildfire-prone California. Bloomberg, Mercury News, 17 Oct. 2025 In the event of a dispute, entries will be deemed submitted by the authorized account holder of the e-mail address submitted at the time of entry. Vogue, 13 Oct. 2025 They’re deemed non-essential, thus only temporarily furloughed and not fired. Phil Blair, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for deemed
Verb
  • Schuster said the Fujian is more likely a stepping stone, and China’s next carrier, the Type 004, on which early construction is believed to have begun, will incorporate lessons learned from it.
    Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 26 Oct. 2025
  • De Silva, police noted, was an innocent bystander who was not involved in the quarrel and was not believed to have been the target.
    Liam Quinn, PEOPLE, 26 Oct. 2025
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  • Business leaders and boosters—if not the public library’s archivist—thought rumors and legends and sub-cellars, basements, coal chutes, and other subterranean utility spaces made for a marketable product.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The tour was set to kick off at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles, where the trio played what until now was thought to be their final show in 2015.
    Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 20 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Like Notre Dame, the Cougars and Beavers are considered at-large candidates during the two-year transition phase.
    Jon Wilner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Lee's distinguished career includes his indelible performances as Dracula for Hammer Film Productions, and even with his illustrious list of acting credits, Lee considered Lord Summerisle one of his finest roles.
    Steven Thrash, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Oct. 2025
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  • The alternative would have been shutting down pre-orders after that guessed number and marking the devices out of stock.
    Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Who’d have guessed that the place to find a killer spritz cookie recipe would be inside a cemetery?
    Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • There’s even a design echo between the nomadic Mongolian ger — the traditional felt tent sometimes referred to as yurts — and the Martian dome prototypes being developed by the MARS-V engineering team.
    Rosanna Philpott, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The Search Begins Our search began with what felt like hunting for a needle in a haystack.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Higginbotham figured one way to unpack his journey would be to talk about it even more.
    Rustin Dodd, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Saudi heritage and national pride figured across many collections, with geometric rooflines a graphic detail on the loose men’s alterna-suiting from Noble & Fresh, and odes to various regions spelled out in spirals of Arabic characters on Hindamme’s second-skin dresses.
    Miles Socha, Footwear News, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Here, teachers aren’t supposed to tell students that the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 — a defining incident of racial violence in Oklahoma history — was perpetrated by racists.
    Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica, 22 Oct. 2025
  • So, my vocal cords, they’re supposed to look parallel.
    Melinda Newman, Billboard, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • That calls for a little extra creativity from its mom — and the movie’s narrator (Emilia Clarke) — who wriggles her mandibles and gets to work embellishing upon what Dahl imagined.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Today’s mythographers have access to sources and tools that Casaubon could never have imagined—vast digital archives, instant machine translation, pattern-finding algorithms that would have sounded like science fiction a decade ago.
    Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025

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“Deemed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deemed. Accessed 27 Oct. 2025.

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