FINED Synonyms: 80 Similar and Opposite Words

fined 1 of 2

verb (1)

past tense of fine

as in imposed

to establish or apply as a charge or penalty the police will fine you for driving with one headlight out

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verb (2)

past tense of fine

as in filtered

to remove usually visible impurities from the use of egg shells to fine wine

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The agency also fined Blackbird for failing to report an employee death within eight hours, and for failing to properly equip its employees with avalanche safety gear. — Tribune News Service, Mercury News, 21 Aug. 2026 The Cowboys and Saints were fined $500,000 apiece for scrapping at their joint practice this week. — Chris Branch, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2026 The agency has fined Solano’s homes $38,125 since the early 2010s. — Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald, 21 Aug. 2026 Jones indicated Ezeiruaku, who started nine games and had two sacks last season as a rookie, is one of the Cowboys players who will be fined. — ABC News, 20 Aug. 2026 The Storm publicly apologized for the encounter, and the WNBA fined Keaton and suspended her from attending five home games, according to reporting on the incident. — Jackson Thompson Outkick, FOXNews.com, 20 Aug. 2026 The Dallas Cowboys were fined $500,000 by the NFL on Thursday for fights during joint practices with the New Orleans Saints earlier this week. — Lawrence Dow, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Aug. 2026 For the record, Cohen himself was never fined nor convicted of insider trading by the SEC. — Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 15 Aug. 2026 In 2024, a tourist was fined 12,500 kroner ($1,300) after attempting to approach a walrus. — Charlotte Reck, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2026

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Western nations have imposed economic and political sanctions in response to the military takeover and violent repression of opposition, which has led to the deaths of thousands of civilians and given rise to a civil war.

— ABC News, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2026
Powell’s record low comes as the seven states that share the Colorado River’s water wait to find out what cuts will be imposed.

— Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 16 Aug. 2026

Definition of imposed

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As water moves through their gills, it is filtered for microscopic organisms that these mollusks then consume as food.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 Aug. 2026
That risks creating a different version of the same problem, where legitimate candidates get filtered out by systems that are also guessing at what is real.

— Kara Dennison, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026

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Last year, just weeks after the homicide, Solano County prosecutors charged Evans with fatally shooting 19-year-old Tamarcus Williams on the 300 block of West Texas Street in Fairfield, court records show.

— Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 21 Aug. 2026
For more than five decades, the Department has been charged with protecting and humanely managing wild horses and burros on public lands.

— Latoya Gayle, PEOPLE, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of charged

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However, the department has not clarified the scope, and has not confirmed whether legitimate PSLF credit has been rescinded for some borrowers and, if so, whether it will be restored.

— Adam S. Minsky, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
Elci clarified that was a nod to his father’s work ethic, not a disregard for his passing.

— Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of clarified

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Legacy databases are notoriously fragmented, proprietary data is rarely cleaned or standardized, and cybersecurity protocols surrounding corporate intellectual property remain a massive liability.

— Ivan Illan, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
The coffin was covered with mud, and, before bringing it inside his house, Luwi cleaned it off with a bucket of water and a sponge.

— Rachel Aviv, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of cleaned

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Hoffman was born in Brooklyn, one of 10 children in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, and raised in Montreal after her Canadian mother extracted the family.

— Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 18 Aug. 2026
Like gallium, germanium is generally recovered as a by-product rather than extracted from dedicated mines.

— Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of extracted

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Prologis said the numbers were refined as key details were worked out.

— Bloomberg, Mercury News, 20 Aug. 2026
Hybrid tech has been around for decades, and some automakers have refined their hybrid nameplates over the years, mastering the balance between affordability and efficiency for consumers.

— Charles Singh, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2026

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