featured

verb

Definition of featurednext
past tense of feature
1
as in highlighted
to indicate the importance of by centering attention on a restaurant featuring an extensive list of American wines to complement its creative American cuisine

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2
as in saw
to form a mental picture of I can't feature that guy wearing anything other than his usual jeans and T-shirt

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Recent Examples of featured Weather aside, Fall/Winter 2026 Haute Couture Week, which ran from July 6 to 9, featured 30 houses compared with FW25’s 27-strong line-up. — Laure Guilbault, Vogue, 10 July 2026 All products and services featured are independently chosen by editors. — Gina Vaynshteyn, StyleCaster, 9 July 2026 All products and listings featured on Condé Nast Traveler are independently selected by our editors. — Jamie Spain, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 July 2026 All products featured on Allure are independently selected by our editors. — Kara Nesvig, Allure, 9 July 2026 All products featured on Glamour are independently selected by our editors. — René Chávez Esparza, Glamour, 9 July 2026 All products featured on Architectural Digest are independently selected by our editors. — Vy Yang, Architectural Digest, 9 July 2026 Anne Hathaway’s latest Instagram post featured more than just an exciting announcement. — Taylor Jean Stephan, PEOPLE, 3 July 2026 The song also featured heavily in the series’ promotional materials. — Angelina Mazza, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for featured
  1. highlighted
  2. saw
  3. emphasized
  4. imagined
  5. stressed
  6. pictured
  7. envisioned
  8. dreamed
Verb
  • Five specific CEFs are highlighted for their attractive yields and significant discounts.
    — Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 11 July 2026
  • Both Goldman Sachs and Bank of America highlighted that investors had not seriously considered the possibility of the trial failing, given the favorable precedent from Alnylam's rival drug Amvuttra that works similarly.
    — Elsa Ohlen, CNBC, 11 July 2026
Definition of highlighted
Verb
  • In the book, Covey tells the story of a man relentlessly sawing down a tree.
    — Tony Gambill, Forbes.com, 2 June 2026
  • Jordan Walker, sawed off by a 96 mph sinker, lined out softly.
    — Matt Kawahara, Houston Chronicle, 19 Apr. 2026
Definition of saw
Verb
  • Since Craig Breslow took over as chief baseball officer the club has instead emphasized college pitchers, particularly big-bodied flamethrowers out of the SEC.
    — Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 5 July 2026
  • And, following his death, Anixter’s family also emphasized just how deeply baseball shaped his life.
    — Peter Chawaga, Forbes.com, 5 July 2026
Definition of emphasized
Verb
  • The tools now entering those classrooms are more powerful and far less accountable than anyone writing that legislation could have imagined.
    — Masha Pearl, Sun Sentinel, 5 July 2026
  • The men who signed that document could not have imagined artificial intelligence, quantum computing or cyberspace.
    — Emil Sayegh, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
Definition of imagined
Verb
  • The French president stressed that Weaver’s greatest strength may have been her refusal to remain confined to the role of an action heroine.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 15 July 2026
  • Today’s report backs up the argument repeatedly stressed by the BBC that while 94% of the UK population use its services every month, fewer than 80% pay the £180.
    — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 14 July 2026
Definition of stressed
Verb
  • That was the case for the family of Lê Thị Xuân and Yoshiharu Shimizu (whose Vietnamese name is Nguyễn Văn Đức), who had two sons and one daughter, pictured above.
    — Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 14 July 2026
  • The England international was instead pictured on a training bike at Manchester City, with his loan move having expired at the start of the month.
    — Patrick Boyland, New York Times, 14 July 2026
Definition of pictured
Verb
  • The debt stems from a contract signed about 25 years ago, when Diablo Grande was envisioned as a much larger development.
    — Nina Burns, CBS News, 14 July 2026
  • On Monday, developers unveiled new details about the future of a property once envisioned to bring hundreds of apartments and commercial space to a then-sleepy downtown corner.
    — Rose Evans, Idaho Statesman, 14 July 2026
Definition of envisioned
Verb
  • She's also dreamed about paying down that future pool by listing it on Swimply.
    — Stephan Bisaha, NPR, 3 July 2026
  • Wimbledon has been a tournament that Djokovic has dreamt of his whole life.
    — Mary Wenthur, Footwear News, 28 June 2026
Definition of dreamed

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