economized

past tense of economize

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for economized
Verb
  • Electronics Finds like televisions, vintage type writers, dial phones, and vintage radios may have been saved by the homeowners for the sake of nostalgia, but might not actually work anymore.
    Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Because everything was kept in one place, when the user saved the system state to a floppy disk, their entire workspace was frozen and stored in its entirety.
    Cameron Kaiser, ArsTechnica, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Older kids and young adults would not be spared.
    Jamie Ducharme, The Atlantic, 17 Sep. 2025
  • My own family hasn’t been spared in any of this.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Emory’s shuttles have been running on biodiesel fuel since 2006, and the campus has conserved fuel energy by recycling old cooking oil used in the dining halls.
    Gina Park, CNN Money, 27 Aug. 2025
  • These are sugar molecules that are structurally conserved across unrelated viral families and have until now remained an untapped target for antiviral drug development.
    Hannah Millington, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
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“Economized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/economized. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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