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doctored

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verb

past tense of doctor
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as in treated
to give medical treatment to a pledge to doctor the burn victims until they were whole again

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Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of doctored
Verb
Thieves found his heating bill in a collection box, doctored the check and cashed it for $25,000. — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2026 The combination of arrogance and doctored intelligence that led the United States and its allies into the 2003 Iraq War is almost made for Hollywood. — David Faris, TheWeek, 27 July 2026 This murky pour is decidedly brown and so heavily doctored with vitamin C and pectin that the flavor of pineapple is barely detectable. — Jolene Thym, Mercury News, 20 July 2026 The fake image claimed the official Nintendo names for the blocks were Orange Ricky, Blue Ricky, Cleveland Z, Rhode Island Z, Hero, Teewee, and Smashboy — but the image had been doctored. — Louis Peitzman, Entertainment Weekly, 29 June 2026 On the negative side, doctored recruiting film is also becoming a thing. — Antonio Morales, New York Times, 1 May 2026 By that time, the White House TikTok account already had posted a video, doctored using artificial intelligence. — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2026 And that's why the sky in the back of Rob's was, doctored. — Outside Online, 11 Mar. 2026 Stalcup says that after the data was stolen, it was doctored and shared by the former employee, who was vindictive about being fired for cause. — Paul Flahive, Austin American Statesman, 16 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for doctored
Adjective
  • Navarro, who pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy in August, was sentenced Friday in Manhattan by federal Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil for being part of a conspiracy to distribute and administer adulterated and misbranded drugs for racehorses.
    — Stephen Edelson, The Courier-Journal, 18 Dec. 2021
Verb
  • Staffers also expressed concerns about fiscal implications if bedbugs would come home with workers and require them to pay for their homes to be treated.
    — Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 3 Oct. 2026
  • Palestinians are also clear that any near-term solution must include a credible route to independent statehood; a Palestinian state must not be treated as a possible reward at the end of a long and uncertain path.
    — Michael Robbins, Foreign Affairs, 2 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The Rays spent 2025 at Steinbrenner Field, the New York Yankees’ spring training ballpark, while damage to their stadium from Hurricane Milton was repaired.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 30 Sep. 2026
  • In interviews, Syrians interpreted the minister’s answers to mean prices will return to normal in two months after the refinery is repaired.
    — Taylor Luck, Christian Science Monitor, 28 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • To allow a smaller city to be compared more fairly with a much larger one like New York, researchers adjusted the search totals for population.
    — Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 28 Sep. 2026
  • And when Mizzou adjusted for short passes, the Bulldogs hit them back over the top with deep passes.
    — PJ Green, Kansas City Star, 27 Sep. 2026
Adjective
  • If pressure, temperature, flow or level moves away from its set point, the controller adjusts a valve, heater, pump or another manipulated variable.
    — Gregory Shahnovsky, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2026
  • What emerged was a startling portrait of manipulated devotion that culminated in Jeffs' 2006 arrest by the FBI.
    — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • In the paper, the team reconstructed how the collapse of the Hunga volcano unfolded.
    — Yook Ji Hun, ArsTechnica, 23 Sep. 2026
  • What happened—which can be reconstructed from messages that the agents sent one another and from traces of their own internal reasoning, known as chain-of-thought records—makes for gripping reading.
    — Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Fish can be hard to find and harder to catch this time of year, but American anglers have adapted to difficult fishing conditions.
    — Bryan Hendricks, Arkansas Online, 27 Sep. 2026
  • Back in June, it was announced that Kendrick would direct the Netflix film, adapted from Taylor Jenkins Reid’s best-selling novel.
    — Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 27 Sep. 2026
Adjective
  • Without much public debate or planning, these semi-engineered levees took on a critical and unintended role.
    — Farshid Vahedifard, The Conversation, 29 Dec. 2025

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“Doctored.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/doctored. Accessed 4 Oct. 2026.

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