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adjective

as in intended

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verb

past tense of design
1
as in planned
to have in mind as a purpose or goal early on she had designed to a top position in a major insurance company

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2
as in prepared
to work out the details of (something) in advance the foreman designed a better layout for the factory floor to improve efficiency

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Recent Examples of designed
Adjective
Portfolio Homes are a free selection of pre-designed and pre-approved, small scale home building plans the city is offering at no cost to a resident or developer. — Taylor O'Connor, Kansas City Star, 12 Apr. 2026 With designed runs, Iamaleava can take the next leap of his career. — Benjamin Royer, Daily News, 18 Jan. 2026
Verb
In a move away from the traditional group stages, the league phase is designed to be fair through a seeding system. — Leon Imber, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026 The approach is designed to increase the speed and scale of module production and installation while maintaining quality. — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 9 Sep. 2026 In South Korea, Chipotle and its local partner built a supply chain designed to meet the company’s global food quality standards. — Jenny Lee, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2026 But unlike David, this monstrous trio is designed to indiscriminately kill anyone and everyone in their path. — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2026 Multi-Hyphenate is housed in deep oxblood-colored glass with silver detailing, part of a broader packaging approach designed to make each product feel distinctive and covetable. — Ryma Chikhoune, Footwear News, 8 Sep. 2026 The new seven-floor, 82,000-square-foot building was designed by Adjaye Associates, with Cooper Robertson serving as executive architect. — News Desk, Artforum, 8 Sep. 2026 The building is well laid out and easy to navigate; it’s perfectly designed to highlight the art and artifacts. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Sep. 2026 My actual wedding dress was designed with the Manolo Camparinew Satin Mary Janes in mind. — Elly Leavitt, Vogue, 2 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for designed
  1. intended
  2. planned
  3. prepared
  4. deliberate
  5. aimed
  6. organized
  7. arranged
  8. devised
Adjective
  • The company says the plant could provide roughly 400 MW of electrical power without the risk of plasma disruptions, supporting its intended role as a source of baseload energy.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Instead of only asking whether malware was detected, ask whether a user’s behavior changed, a workload is communicating somewhere unusual, large amounts of data are moving unexpectedly or an AI agent is operating outside its intended scope.
    — Scott Alldridge, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of intended
Verb
  • The Cinderella dress that Kaitlyn Argyriou’s mother had sewn for her as a child and which Argyriou’s daughter, Avery, 4, had planned to wear trick-or-treating in Colorado Springs on Halloween.
    — Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 5 Sep. 2026
  • The production planned to grab exterior footage outside Broadway’s Music Box Theatre — the film’s principal location — before a New York City blizzard intervened.
    — Clayton Davis, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of planned
Verb
  • As deputies prepared to have the vehicle towed, one found a small black pouch containing passports and a Social Security card.
    — Dale Ellis, Arkansas Online, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Part of our responsibility as leaders of the club is to be prepared.
    — Chris Waugh, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of prepared
Adjective
  • There were two small red stripes on a sail, clearly deliberate but out of place.
    — John Phipps, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2026
  • Talking at the film’s press conference in Venice earlier, Moretti said his absence from from the festival had not been a deliberate slight but rather down to the timing for the shoots of his films.
    — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of deliberate
Verb
  • The Italian champions’ addition of Three Lions — England internationals John Stones, Curtis Jones and Djed Spence — is aimed at bringing more dynamism to a wily group who have reached two Champions League finals in four years.
    — James Horncastle, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Congress has bipartisan bills in the works aimed at setting clearer federal consumer protections, including age verification.
    — Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2026
Definition of aimed
Verb
  • Many of them traveled to Orlando for a workout-and-hang Hurts organized over the summer.
    — Brooks Kubena, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Kids of mixed ages organized their own games and made up their own rules, while adults stayed mostly on the sidelines or stayed away entirely.
    — Dr. Edith Bracho-Sanchez, CNN Money, 7 Sep. 2026
Definition of organized
Verb
  • Dogan deliberately arranged for Salah’s medical to take place in the metropolis of Istanbul, over 500 miles (nearly 900km) from Trabzon, so the Egyptian could see how frenzied the welcome would be.
    — Nick Miller, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
  • On Sunday, the Lime Rock Concours and Gathering of the Marques display nearly 1,000 enthusiast cars and motorcycles arranged around the Lime Rock circuit.
    — Mark Maglio, Hartford Courant, 6 Sep. 2026
Definition of arranged
Verb
  • Davis’s Friday ruling means the government must now disclose who devised the fund’s structure, but the information will not necessarily be made available to the public.
    — Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2026
  • Engineers devised a lower-thrust trajectory that saved BepiColombo's mission but delayed its Mercury arrival from December 2025 to November 2026.
    — Josh Dinner, Space.com, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of devised

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