filled in

verb

past tense of fill in
1
as in informed
to give information to my friend quickly filled me in on the portion of the movie that I had missed

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2
as in substituted
to serve as a replacement usually for a time only she's only filling in while the regular secretary is on vacation

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Recent Examples of filled in Earlier this year, Colman Domingo, Tiffany Haddish, Anthony Anderson, and Ike Barinholtz all filled in so Kimmel could go fishing. — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 21 Aug. 2026 Gasper has filled in admirably for Yoshida, homering in his third straight game Wednesday. — Jen McCaffrey, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026 Blanchard, Garrett, and Colaiuta filled in for the late Davis, Wayne Shorter and Tony Williams, respectively. — Peter Larsen, Daily News, 20 Aug. 2026 Friends filled in the blanks, painting Roberts, a web developer and clutch early digital-ad adviser, as the Marty Ginsburg to Ocasio-Cortez’s RBG. — Michelle Ruiz, Vanity Fair, 14 Aug. 2026 Gloria Mark’s long-running research on attention at UC Irvine has documented that when external interruptions are removed from someone’s environment, the void left behind gets filled in by self-interruption instead. — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026 Chill Subs announced the experiment in our newsletter—22,000 readers at the time—and the spots filled in under three minutes. — Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2026 The Jonas Brothers musician also filled in for Ripa on July 28, while Mila Kunis filled in on July 29. — Erin Jensen, USA Today, 30 July 2026 At the time, the district said the employee worked at Jacksonville High School but also filled in at Jacksonville Middle School this spring. — Grant Lancaster, Arkansas Online, 24 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for filled in
  1. informed
  2. substituted
  3. told
  4. stood in
  5. advised
  6. stepped in
  7. instructed
  8. caught up
Verb
  • Executions are carried out in secrecy in Japan, where prisoners are not informed of their fate until the morning of their hanging.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 21 Aug. 2026
  • That’s in addition to the earlier dismantling of USAID (which trained social mobilizers for surveillance and active case finding) and the withdrawal from the WHO (whose technical expertise informed laboratory strengthening and data systems).
    — Eli Cahan, Rolling Stone, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of informed
Verb
  • The Springboks scrum was better than advertised until props Ox Nché and Wilco Louw were substituted.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 22 Aug. 2026
  • Doku, 24, started his side’s 3-0 Community Shield defeat to Arsenal last Sunday but was substituted at half-time.
    — Nnamdi Onyeagwara, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of substituted
Verb
  • The catalog spans genres such as fantasy, family drama, romance and billionaire romance, told in episodes running 60-90 seconds.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Roughly half of Stars and Stripes' $29 million annual budget comes from taxpayers, a person familiar with the newspaper's operations told CBS News last week.
    — Joe Walsh, CBS News, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of told
Verb
  • Rosignoli also recommended the Museo Civico Naturalistico-Archeologico in Vicenza, which has finds from Lake Fimon and Teatro Berga, an actual Roman theater that once stood in the city center.
    — Julia Buckley, CNN Money, 24 Aug. 2026
  • On Tuesday, Jaissle stood in front of staff from across the club — including those in marketing, accounting, legal and building operations — at an internal ‘town hall’ at St James’ Park.
    — Chris Waugh, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of stood in
Verb
  • Shakur’s family in the court gallery had been advised ahead of time that the graphic visuals were going to be shown and described.
    — Andy Rose, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2026
  • Weygold, who died in 1941, collected Native American art and artifacts, taught himself the Lakota language, and advised European museums on Native American art.
    — Leigh Anne Miller, ARTnews.com, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of advised
Verb
  • Citadel, Ken Griffin's giant multi-strategy hedge fund, stepped in to buy the positions at a discount, understood to be around 10%.
    — Hugh Leask, CNBC, 25 Aug. 2026
  • His character Ned Schneebly was supposed to be substituting — until Dewey impersonated him and stepped in.
    — Kate Hogan, PEOPLE, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of stepped in
Verb
  • Prior to the concert, Hager explained that her eldest daughter, Mila, had instructed her to wear polka dots to the event.
    — Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Aug. 2026
  • The dispatcher then instructed him on performing chest compressions.
    — Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of instructed
Verb
  • The films also involve normie couples caught up in hauntings, dealt Old Testament–style punishments by forces from the great beyond.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2026
  • If your dog swallows these fibers, it can get caught up in the digestive tract like hair in plumbing and create a blockage.
    — BestReviews, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of caught up

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“Filled in.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/filled%20in. Accessed 26 Aug. 2026.

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