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as in ate
to take a meal
they dined elegantly at the city's finest restaurant before taking in an opera downtown
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Recent Examples of dined
She had been left with her 2-year-old twin siblings in the unlocked rental while Kate and Gerry McCann dined with friends at a restaurant 130 feet away.
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Nicole Acosta, PEOPLE, 3 Nov. 2025
Later, back on land, the couple dined at a table overlooking the Miami River, noshing on Greek fare and dancing until late night.
—Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 3 Nov. 2025
Guests mingled and dined at long, stretching tables lined with plum calla lilies and small golden lamps.
—Ryma Chikhoune, Footwear News, 2 Nov. 2025
Reflecting and Changing The other 30-some-odd runners who already finished are upstairs at the restaurant of the Hotel Bob Marley, where local legend says the reggae rock star once dined.
—Joe Baur, Outside, 31 Oct. 2025
Now, the public has a chance to own a piece of the iconic restaurant where Sacramento’s political class dined for nearly a decade—and at surprisingly low prices.
—Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 30 Oct. 2025
Following the blowout win over Las Vegas, Kelce and his fiancée, Taylor Swift, dined there Sunday.
—Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 21 Oct. 2025
On Sunday night, Minnesota Wild rookie forward Danila Yurov dined with his agent, who also represents a few of the other Russians of note in the NHL.
—Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 21 Oct. 2025
Anyone who has dined at a three-Michelin-star restaurant or watched The Bear from their couch at home knows the obsession around high-touch service is almost as critical as the food itself.
—Leo Schwartz, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2025
Nicole Acosta, PEOPLE, 3 Nov. 2025
Later, back on land, the couple dined at a table overlooking the Miami River, noshing on Greek fare and dancing until late night.
—Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 3 Nov. 2025
Guests mingled and dined at long, stretching tables lined with plum calla lilies and small golden lamps.
—Ryma Chikhoune, Footwear News, 2 Nov. 2025
Reflecting and Changing The other 30-some-odd runners who already finished are upstairs at the restaurant of the Hotel Bob Marley, where local legend says the reggae rock star once dined.
—Joe Baur, Outside, 31 Oct. 2025
Now, the public has a chance to own a piece of the iconic restaurant where Sacramento’s political class dined for nearly a decade—and at surprisingly low prices.
—Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 30 Oct. 2025
Following the blowout win over Las Vegas, Kelce and his fiancée, Taylor Swift, dined there Sunday.
—Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 21 Oct. 2025
On Sunday night, Minnesota Wild rookie forward Danila Yurov dined with his agent, who also represents a few of the other Russians of note in the NHL.
—Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 21 Oct. 2025
Anyone who has dined at a three-Michelin-star restaurant or watched The Bear from their couch at home knows the obsession around high-touch service is almost as critical as the food itself.
—Leo Schwartz, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dined
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On one day in late December, Eden barely ate all day.—
Angela Andaloro,
People.com,
5 Aug. 2025
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While neither is an effective big league pitcher at this point, those moves ate into the Yankees’ limited rotation depth.—
Gary Phillips,
New York Daily News,
4 Aug. 2025
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Like his Washington, Bargatze’s Farnsworth regaled a trio of underlings (SNL cast members Bowen Yang, Mikey Day, and James Austin Johnson) with ridiculous yet accurate predictions for the future, in this case of TV.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
15 Sep. 2025
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Appel also regaled the audience with his strategy that resulted in Springsteen getting on the cover of both Time and Newsweek.—
Caryn Rose,
Variety,
7 Sep. 2025
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China’s astronauts feasted on the first-ever barbecue in space after a new hot air oven was installed to cook steak, bake cakes, roast peanuts and more.—
Sarah Hutter,
CNN Money,
6 Nov. 2025
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Will Smith’s solo blast in the 11th sealed the Jays’ fate, but along the way fans feasted on a host of World Series anomalies, including a rare bench-clearing in the bottom of the fourth after Dodgers reliever Justin Wrobleski plunked Jays shortstop Andrés Giménez with a four-seamer.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
3 Nov. 2025
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The 2025 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony honored bands like Outkast, the White Stripes, and Soundgarden.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
10 Nov. 2025
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Tracey McLeod honored me with an opportunity to partner with her on aggressively growing the Branded Division business, with a focus on the Reebok brand and the license, Weebok by Reebok.—
Jennie Bell,
Footwear News,
10 Nov. 2025
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Located in its app, the Watch tab now features a feed of vertical video stories, though they are editorially curated rather than algorithmically fed, at least for now.—
Alex Weprin,
HollywoodReporter,
6 Nov. 2025
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From there, Iguaran took a short bus ride to Los Chiles, Costa Rica, where he was fed a meal and slept for seven hours at a migrant shelter.—
Daniel Gonzalez,
AZCentral.com,
6 Nov. 2025
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“Dined.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dined. Accessed 22 Nov. 2025.
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