donated 1 of 2

past tense of donate

donated

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adjective

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of donated
Verb
The organization is staffed by volunteers who repair donated cars so they can be safely gifted to those in need. Aurora Beacon-News, Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2025 The donated toys, treats and supplies help give these animals time outside and socialization. Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Aug. 2025 These visitor visas are the pathway for Palestinians to come to the United States temporarily for medical treatment, including three children who arrived in the Bay Area earlier this month for donated treatment for injuries suffered in the Israel-Hamas war. Caelyn Pender, Mercury News, 18 Aug. 2025
Adjective
The object was donated to the University of Oklahoma’s Sam Noble Museum, federal officials said. Mitchell Willetts, Kansas City Star, 30 Sep. 2025 The family had been introduced to CRC through their synagogue Temple Solel in Cardiff and in the past had donated homemade meals for the domestic violence emergency shelter. Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2025 The project was funded by over 50 donors including Ford Motor Company, which donated $150,000. Mya Abraham, VIBE.com, 29 Sep. 2025 Soros, a billionaire financier, makes personal donations to Democrats and also founded the Open Society Foundations (OSF), which have donated to causes around the world. Steve Inskeep, NPR, 29 Sep. 2025 Soros, who has long been a funder of the Democratic Party, donated $125 million to one liberal super PAC in 2021, according to campaign finance tracker OpenSecrets. Auzinea Bacon, CNN Money, 28 Sep. 2025 Volunteers and nonprofit organizations also donated a new car and generators to the Keeles. Chelsea Torres, FOXNews.com, 27 Sep. 2025 Along with bragging rights, the teams played for the Jack Jordan Memorial Trophy, which was donated by Garden Grove principal Donald Jordan and his wife Juanita in honor of their late son. Lou Ponsi, Oc Register, 27 Sep. 2025 The desserts — crafted and donated by local bakeries for the auction — got creative with the zoo theme, including a Monarch Meadow pollinator cake from Paris Ave. Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 27 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for donated
Verb
  • Kershaw saw the writing on the wall over the season’s final week and volunteered himself to be available in relief.
    Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2025
  • The teenager was an avid singer and actor who volunteered at a local food pantry, according to her obituary.
    Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 4 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Does a user keep expressing linguistic markers throughout a given conversation?
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Bing, for its part, went off the rails early on, prompting Microsoft to scale back both its personality and the number of questions users could ask it in a given conversation.
    Will Oremus, Washington Post, 5 June 2023
Verb
  • Enquirer media partner Fox19 contributed to this report.
    Gillian Stawiszynski, Cincinnati Enquirer, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Rachel Schilke and Christian Datoc contributed to this report.
    Ramsey Touchberry, The Washington Examiner, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The Democratic nominee for mayor also gave a speech at an African Methodist church, an effort to bridge the gap with apprehensive Black voters.
    Amie Parnes, The Hill, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Trump also gave Wall Street some assurance that the administration would give Nvidia licenses to offer its H20 AI chip in China – a crucial market for the company.
    Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 1 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Bills for Medicaid recipients are supposed to be sent to Medicaid, not the patients, who typically pay a nominal amount, if anything, for their care.
    Rae Ellen Bichell, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The courts are open to JCCOC members, though guests can accompany for a nominal fee and decide whether to join.
    Greg Mellen, Oc Register, 19 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The film presented a new twist on the modern classic, according to Paramount Pictures, the production house behind the film.
    Taylor Ardrey, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
  • So what interested me was definitely the complexity of this character, who is presented not as being all peaches and cream, but as a character with very dark, even toxic, aspects of her personality.
    Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • DeWine signed the budget bill in June, but vetoed 67 provisions which would have provided immediate property tax relief to homeowners.
    Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
  • In the following years, MSF provided chelation to thousands of children and the government and community organizations undertook the complex job of environmental remediation, laying fresh soil over acres of contaminated land to prevent continued poisoning.
    Tom Frieden, Big Think, 30 Sep. 2025

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