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verb

past tense of fade

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Recent Examples of faded
Adjective
With colors like Old Chaparral (402-7DB), a rich, earthy red, and Blue Laguna (432-5DB), a faded denim blue, this palette embodies nostalgic charm. Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Aug. 2025 Once a faded roadside motel, Rhode’s Motor Lodge has been stylishly reimagined. Carrie Honaker, Travel + Leisure, 15 Aug. 2025
Verb
The glow mysteriously faded within seconds. Mark Price, Miami Herald, 2 Sep. 2025 Still, retail enthusiasm around Nvidia had faded ahead of Wednesday's big earnings report . Yun Li, CNBC, 1 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for faded
Recent Examples of Synonyms for faded
Adjective
  • One moment, the Sound of Sleat is a sheet of silver under a pale sun; the next, wind drives rain sideways into the distillery’s courtyard, rattling the pagoda roof.
    Gina Pace, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Curiosity and possibly even lust play into their first encounter; part of the welcome complexity between this pale-skinned woman of substance and this tall, equally alabaster, formerly dead drink of water is the ambiguity in their initial interactions.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Phillips disappeared with his children, Jayda, 12, Maverick, 10, and Ember, 9, after an alleged dispute with their mother back in 2021, PEOPLE previously reported.
    Becca Longmire, PEOPLE, 10 Sep. 2025
  • As veterans organizations plan events this month to remember the tens of thousands of Americans who died, disappeared or were captured in combat, some remains are still being identified through new scientific advances.
    Frank Witsil, Freep.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The coral, now bleached, is alive, but slowly starving.
    Denise Hruby, Miami Herald, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The only thing not bleached was, luckily, his face.
    Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The problem is that what gets cut isn’t always cosmetic, and sometimes the very safeguards designed to block harmful outputs, such as hate speech or criminal instructions, are weakened or lost.
    Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Meanwhile, the latest jobs report confirmed that the labor market weakened sharply over the spring and summer and that sectors most affected by tariffs have seen the biggest losses.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Troopers said that Smith vanished after his mother’s death.
    Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 5 Sep. 2025
  • In recent days, almost all search results for COVID vaccines have vanished from Google Maps.
    Ryan Whitwam, ArsTechnica, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Chorizo, shrimp, clams, and corn soak in a rich beer-and-butter broth, brightened with lemon and parsley to deliver all the flavor of a hands-on boil without the mess.
    SAVEUR Editors, Saveur, 4 Sep. 2025
  • There’s much, much more to the culture, of course, and there are positive and negative associations with ultras around Germany and beyond, but this was another occasion brightened by their work.
    Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The Federal Reserve had been pressured to keep interest rates low to facilitate wartime financing, resulting in a dollar that sagged badly from its official gold parity.
    Nathan Lewis, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Asset-light new entrants like On The Beach, offering the protections of traditional package holiday providers while not owning any hotels or aircraft, have become big players.
    Ian King, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2025
  • While the chain’s appeal included some modifications, such as a revised landscaping plan to help with light concerns, changes to traffic plans for the site were not offered.
    Rose Evans September 10, Idaho Statesman, 10 Sep. 2025

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“Faded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/faded. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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