DIAGNOSED Synonyms: 43 Similar and Opposite Words

diagnosed

verb

past tense of diagnose

as in identified

to find out or establish the identity of Experts have introduced new technology for diagnosing certain types of cancer in their early stages.

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Recent Examples of diagnosed Roughly a quarter of children under age 5 diagnosed with measles in the US last year were hospitalized. — Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2026 So when her son, Reed, now 15, was diagnosed with dyslexia 10 years ago, Knopf went down a rabbit hole of literacy education. — Amy Drew Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2026 Instead, testosterone deficiency should be diagnosed through both appropriate laboratory testing and symptom evaluation. — Sara Moniuszko, USA Today, 13 Aug. 2026 She was transferred to the Ojai Raptor Center for care, where she was diagnosed with severe anemia. — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 13 Aug. 2026 He was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder after reporting on the terror attack on an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester in 2017. — Jake Kanter, Deadline, 13 Aug. 2026 He was diagnosed three years ago with the debilitating neuromuscular disorder, which is also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, that causes people to gradually lose the ability to move. — Stephanie Stahl, CBS News, 13 Aug. 2026 Overall, patients who took estrogen-only hormone therapy for menopause were less likely to display signs of memory loss or cognitive decline or to be diagnosed with dementia. — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 12 Aug. 2026 The day she was diagnosed was the same day she was deemed postmenopausal. — Beth Sobol, Flow Space, 12 Aug. 2026

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The Puerto Rican boxer had brain surgery but never fully recovered from his injuries, identified as a large subdural hematoma, and was in a persistent vegetative state.

— Matt Moret, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2026
The Institute for Justice, a nonprofit law firm specializing in civil liberties cases, identified over 100 incidents of automatic license plate reader abuse, including stalking and wrongful stops.

— Charlie De Mar, CBS News, 14 Aug. 2026

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Wondermind, which was co-founded by Gomez; her mother, Mandy Teefey; and Daniella Pierson in November 2021, touts mental fitness practices and tools.

— Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 14 Aug. 2026
And now there are full-size mowers that can take on acres of grass, as a result of the technology being developed by companies like Kress, an electric motor company founded in the late 1920s.

— Emily M. Olson, Hartford Courant, 14 Aug. 2026

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Their presence says the AI factory is being evaluated as infrastructure, the way ports, pipelines, and power plants get evaluated, and that evaluation is happening on a continent most American investors never think about.

— Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2026
The Boeing 757 involved in the incident will be evaluated by Delta maintenance teams.

— Zachary Bynum, CBS News, 9 Aug. 2026

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Also added during the renovation, open for lunch, and located under a shade tarp on deck, is the Star Grill.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Aug. 2026
The power company said the attack resulted in outages across the southern parts of the city, which is located about 47 kilometers (about 30 miles) west of the capital Tripoli.

— ABC News, ABC News, 12 Aug. 2026

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Experts have assessed North Korea's troop dispatch has given it crucial battlefield experience as well.

— ABC News, ABC News, 10 Aug. 2026
Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (hEDS) has international diagnostic criteria published in 2017, assessed through clinical examination.

— Keely Cat-Wells, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026

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Greece designated Olympus its first national park in 1938, and the mountain has long been recognized as a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve.

— Brittany Anas, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2026
The two sides were deadlocked over which would control the peninsula until Kissinger recognized that Egypt’s core interest was sovereignty and national pride while Israel’s was security.

— Matt Waldman, Foreign Affairs, 13 Aug. 2026

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