ENTERED Synonyms: 90 Similar and Opposite Words

entered

verb

past tense of enter

as in penetrated

to go or come in or into the hikers entered the cave with considerable caution

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as in joined

to become a member of patriotic young men and women entering the armed services debutantes entering society

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as in recorded

to put (someone or something) on a list new voters fill out a form and elections officials enter their names into the database

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deleted

as in received

to offer entrance (as to a place, school, or privilege) to the club enters only five new members a year

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Recent Examples of entered The men entered the home with guns, found no drugs and fatally shot the three residents, who lived just across the street from Norman, the records show. — Michael Graczyk, Arkansas Online, 24 Sep. 2026 Ruby has entered a world in which every object is also an exam. — Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2026 Garcia entered with one hit in 18 at-bats since returning from a left hamstring strain. — Kansas City Star, 24 Sep. 2026 The Republic of Tuva's State Committee for Hunting Supervision said the group entered the remote wilderness despite those restrictions. — Amber Harding Outkick, FOXNews.com, 24 Sep. 2026 All American entered the television scene as yet another trailblazing coming-of-age story on a network with a history and a 2018 fall slate full of them. — Katie Campione, Deadline, 24 Sep. 2026 The web and mobile versions sync in real time, so information entered in one automatically appears in the other. — Carson Brunson, CNBC, 24 Sep. 2026 The international military force and new government still have not entered Gaza, and reconstruction has not begun. — Matthew Lee, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2026 The carrier entered the maintenance period in March 2025 and subsequently underwent testing at sea after leaving the shipyard in early September 2026. — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 18 Sep. 2026

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Verb

The urgency behind Warsaw’s push this month was underscored within hours of Nawrocki’s remarks in New York, when a Russian Mi-8 military helicopter briefly penetrated Polish airspace from Russia’s Kaliningrad region.

— Emma Bussey, FOXNews.com, 23 Sep. 2026
Foremost among these is Google, whose Chromebook laptops and Google Workspace for Education software have penetrated a super-majority of districts; Apple and Microsoft’s devices and classroom software hold a more modest share of the K-12 market.

— Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2026

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The shooting is the latest in a series of mass killings in South Africa, where police recorded 5,427 homicides during a recent three-month period.

— Gerald Imray, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2026
The conversations are already recorded and transcribed, so the more durable approach is to read the record instead of relying on memory.

— Snehal Nimje, Forbes.com, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of recorded

Verb

Several officials praised Preckwinkle’s efforts, and the payouts also left $109 million in the loan pot, according to data received through a Tribune open records request.

— A.D. Quig, Chicago Tribune, 20 Sep. 2026
Edwards has received at least 15 carries only three times in 31 career games.

— Taylor Eldridge, Kansas City Star, 20 Sep. 2026

Definition of received

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Other contributing factors listed on the website include out-of-district tuition and out-of-district transportation spending.

— Joseph States, Chicago Tribune, 24 Sep. 2026
Netanyahu listed Mamdani’s rapport with streamer Hasan Piker, his hosting of a Palestinian journalist at Gracie Mansion and posts the mayor’s wife liked on social media as proof the mayor is antisemitic.

— Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of listed

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In 1998, while a student at Gordonstoun, Princess Anne’s daughter Zara Tindall (née Phillips), shocked the nation by getting her tongue pierced at a tattoo parlour in Moray, Scotland.

— Eva Wolchover, Vanity Fair, 21 Sep. 2026
The anticipation builds until the silence is pierced by the curling cry of the ancient instrument.

— Ben Corn, Christian Science Monitor, 19 Sep. 2026