endured

past tense of endure
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as in experienced
to come to a knowledge of (something) by living through it an elderly couple who have endured the ups and downs of a half century of married life

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Recent Examples of endured But that was just a foreshock to what women's sports advocates endured at a Portland Thorns game two Fridays ago. — Matt Calkins Outkick, FOXNews.com, 6 Nov. 2026 The 33-year-old man, lured to Cambodia with the offer of a receptionist job, endured daily beatings for a month, locked in a dark room somewhere in the Southeast Asian country. — ABC News, 5 Nov. 2026 Democrats in Ohio have endured bruising elections statewide the last few cycles. — Sarah Donaldson, NPR, 4 Nov. 2026 Upheaval even reached state capitols, where Republican legislative majorities that had endured for decades fell like dominoes. — Luke Fountain, CNBC, 4 Nov. 2026 The Kansas City Roos endured a stunning loss over the weekend, 4-0 at Omaha. — Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 4 Nov. 2026 This logic has endured since 1935, when the League of Nations sanctioned Italy for invading Ethiopia, in the hope that doing so would induce Italy to call off its invasion or at least temper its ambitions. — S. C. M. Paine, Foreign Affairs, 3 Nov. 2026 Arizona's Maricopa County endured intense scrutiny over the 2020 presidential election when Joe Biden won the Republican-leaning state, the first Democrat to do so since Bill Clinton in 1996. — Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 3 Nov. 2026 But up to this point, DIIV have endured—thrived, even—because of their refusal to capitulate to the industry winds that swirled around them. — Larry Fitzmaurice, Pitchfork, 30 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for endured
Verb
  • Codex pushes Git to its limits OpenAI’s monorepo experienced a sharp increase in development activity over the past year.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 3 Nov. 2026
  • For Sallam, the film grew out of a broader conviction that history is most powerful when experienced through individual lives.
    — Essie Assibu, Variety, 2 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • Putting our deputies and the public at risk will not be tolerated in Douglas County.
    — Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 3 Nov. 2026
  • Most of the new towers remain concrete structures, but they’re now typically clad in glass, metal or masonry, and the frame — while expressed — is generally whipped up into a more interesting confection than Mies would have tolerated.
    — Edward Keegan, Chicago Tribune, 1 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • The pickup truck driver remained at the scene and was cooperating with investigators, Monroe said.
    — Daniel Hunt, Sacbee.com, 3 Nov. 2026
  • Regardless, Republican Sam Matthews, an at-times independent voter who dropped into the Ohio GOP bus tour launch party in Strongsville, remained adamant Democrats continued to be too extreme for most of the electorate.
    — Naomi Lim, The Washington Examiner, 3 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • Gillan’s hospitalization came just weeks after former Deep Purple bassist/vocalist Glenn Hughes underwent 10-hour open-heart surgery.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 3 Nov. 2026
  • The 6-foot-9 sophomore forward underwent an appendectomy Saturday and is out indefinitely.
    — Steve Stein, Chicago Tribune, 3 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • Pando has since handled more than 57 terabytes of Git packfiles in a single hour.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 3 Nov. 2026
  • Tia, on her end, handled the ambush skillfully, parrying jabs without raising her voice to prevent Wendy from having any opening to feign victimization.
    — Shamira Ibrahim, Vulture, 2 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • The same was true as Democrat James Talarico's lead over Texas Senate hopeful Ken Paxton continued to grow.
    — Eve Batey, Vanity Fair, 4 Nov. 2026
  • Otherwise, Republicans have continued to win nearly every other statewide race in Georgia.
    — Sam Gringlas, NPR, 4 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • This also had a boat trip included, a lovely way to cool off after a day walking Barcelona’s lanes.
    — Jaymi McCann, TheWeek, 3 Nov. 2026
  • According to the company, about 65,000 California Community College student accounts were impacted by data changes, roughly 1,000 were accessed and 400 had financial aid refunds taken out.
    — Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 3 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • The system produced a mathematical proof that was accepted by Lean, a proof-assistant software used to check the logical correctness of formal mathematical arguments.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 7 Nov. 2026
  • Feingold succeeds David Jefferson, Executive Vice President, Communications, who has accepted the company’s voluntary early retirement offer after 15 years with Disney.
    — Brent Lang, IndieWire, 6 Nov. 2026

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“Endured.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/endured. Accessed 10 Nov. 2026.

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