emplaced

past tense of emplace

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Recent Examples of emplaced The order affects several thousand engineers, scientists and technicians across every NASA center, and strips away long-standing union rights that were emplaced to protect more than half the agency's workforce. Josh Dinner, Space.com, 30 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for emplaced
Verb
  • Yet the songs, situated in the melange of Black music, cohered through D’Angelo’s resolve.
    Vann R. Newkirk II, The Atlantic, 18 Oct. 2025
  • The moon — our nearest neighbor in space — will be situated about 247,000 miles (398,000 km) from Earth, while Venus is nearly 600 times more distant at 147 million miles (236 million km) away.
    Joe Rao, Space.com, 18 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Police who were involved in the incident have been placed on administrative leave, following department policy.
    Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The Broncos got screwed on an interference call that placed the ball on the 1-yard line.
    Troy Renck, Denver Post, 20 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Pair it with tights, knee-high boots, and a denim jacket for an effortlessly put together look.
    Mia Huelsbeck, PEOPLE, 19 Oct. 2025
  • This could further drive up longtime residents’ property tax bills and put them at risk of losing their homes to the land bank eventually, too.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 18 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The device was allegedly placed inside the toilet bowl and positioned to capture the faces of individuals entering and using the porta-potty, Sgt.
    Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Even so, Posobiec is better positioned than anyone else to fill at least some of the void Kirk has left as one of the most important figures on the contemporary right.
    Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Astrophotographer Ronald Brecher has captured a colorful view of the Heart Nebula (IC 1805), which is located some 6,000 light-years from Earth in the Perseus spiral arm of the Milky Way.
    Anthony Wood, Space.com, 19 Oct. 2025
  • The epicenter was located approximately 5 miles northwest of The Geysers, at a depth of just 1 mile.
    CA Earthquake Bot, Sacbee.com, 19 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In December 2015, Epstein’s employees deposited seven months’ worth of rent into Jane Doe’s Bank of America account, according to the suit.
    Chase Jordan October 17, Charlotte Observer, 17 Oct. 2025
  • When Clair turned up on Tuesday — deposited in the early hours, wrapped in cloth, much in the same way that she had been taken — area residents rejoiced.
    Aishvarya Kavi, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025

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“Emplaced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/emplaced. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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