echoed

verb

past tense of echo
1
as in sounded
to continue or be repeated in a series of reflected sound waves my calls for help echoed off the walls of the abandoned mine shaft

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2
as in repeated
to say after another the little brats sassed the babysitter by echoing in a singsong voice everything she said

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Recent Examples of echoed Pina echoed Schmitter’s argument, pointing to the growing presence of legacy news organizations like BBC and France Télévisions on YouTube. — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026 Data centers aside, the San Luis Obispo party chair’s distrust of who might benefit from the reforms was echoed elsewhere. — Andrew Graham, Sacbee.com, 12 Oct. 2026 His sentiment was echoed by Miruntree Thanachai, one of the girl's aunts. — ABC News, 12 Oct. 2026 Then, Anthropic and OpenAI CEOs echoed the call to slow AI development. — Garance Burke, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2026 Dominic, who works in the hotel industry in Texas, echoed that sentiment. — Monica Pitrelli, CNBC, 12 Oct. 2026 The latter comment echoed words from Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director general. — Jake Kanter, Deadline, 12 Oct. 2026 But Washington has said that the principle of free navigation in international waters is inviolable, a stance echoed by Gulf states that rely on the strait for much of their trade. — Tim Lister, CNN Money, 11 Oct. 2026 Journalist Christiane Amanpour, who stepped out for the occasion in a red jacquard pantsuit by Derek Lam, echoed Clooney’s focus on providing protection for those relentlessly working to hold corrupt systems accountable. — Christie Grimm, Vogue, 10 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for echoed
  1. sounded
  2. repeated
  3. rang
  4. quoted
  5. resonated
  6. reverberated
  7. resounded
Verb
  • Hannity, a close confidant of the president, sounded unimpressed with her press briefing performance and her answers on Thursday night.
    — Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2026
  • For several years, people in custody, advocates and local media have sounded the alarm about the dangers posed by extreme temperatures in Pennsylvania’s state prisons.
    — Jaquelyn Jahn, The Conversation, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of sounded
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  • When isolated issues in other states occur, even if proved untrue, the intense and repeated national media attention on them shakes voter confidence here at home.
    — Heather LaMarre, The Conversation, 14 Oct. 2026
  • The researchers repeated this process dozens of times for both the cysteine and zinc proteases.
    — ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of repeated
Verb
  • Minutes after the fight ended, a lone 911 caller rang authorities to report the brawl.
    — Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 6 Aug. 2025
  • According to the arrest report, detectives then found surveillance video showing the outside of the victim’s home moments before the two kidnappers rang the doorbell.
    — KFOX Staff, Baltimore Sun, 25 Dec. 2024
Definition of rang
Verb
  • Russian state news agency Tass quoted a member of the bank's board as saying that Sberbank systems were operating normally.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Russian state news agency Tass quoted a member of the bank’s board as saying that Sberbank systems were operating normally.
    — Hanna Arhirova, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of quoted
Verb
  • This is a powerful story of family, ambition and music, centered on artists whose influence has resonated across generations and around the world.
    — Alex Ritman, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026
  • The biggest denim trends from the past year, including straight-leg and barrel jeans, just haven’t really resonated with me.
    — Bianca Kratky, Glamour, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of resonated
Verb
  • The shock of the violence has reverberated across The Keystone State.
    — Danya Gainor, CNN Money, 10 Oct. 2026
  • France’s challenges mounted as concerns over its ballooning debt weighed on economic activity and reverberated across Europe.
    — Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of reverberated
Verb
  • After Christopher Kane’s Mulberry debut on Sunday afternoon, the retro-futuristic central room in the Queen Elizabeth II Centre in London resounded with whoops and applause, and a whole section of the audience gave a standing ovation.
    — Lucy Maguire, Vogue, 21 Sep. 2026
  • The hearing room resounded with charges of manipulation and urgent calls for action.
    — Daniel Yergin, Time, 20 June 2026
Definition of resounded

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“Echoed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/echoed. Accessed 18 Oct. 2026.

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