folded

past tense of fold

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of folded Thick fringe folded over the front of her face, mingling with her spider-leg lashes, which brushed the bottom of her brows. — Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 25 Sep. 2026 In the time since the encampment organizers folded up their tents, the fight has moved from the quad to the classroom, from a protest anyone could see to a comment in a lecture or a line in a syllabus. — Jonathan Greenblatt, Sun Sentinel, 24 Sep. 2026 Weekend Predictions should have gained confidence from the Falcons getting folded in half by the Panthers. — Michael Cunningham, AJC.com, 24 Sep. 2026 Instead, every manager on my team folded AI into their work almost immediately, but engineers took a year. — Corey Ercanbrack, Forbes.com, 24 Sep. 2026 Jay has always skillfully folded each turn into his larger mythology, going from drug dealer to rapper to label boss to executive with an air of inevitability, every choice subsumed into the glory of the hustle. — Hua Hsu, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026 Additionally, the company already has Comedy Central’s biggest program, South Park, locked into a Paramount+ streaming deal for the foreseeable future and just folded BET+ into Paramount+. — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 21 Sep. 2026 His knees folded into his chest, the crown of his head burrowing down. — Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2026 Sunburn, long treated as its own category, is being folded back into the barrier conversation, reinforcing daily broad-spectrum SPF 30 or higher as non-negotiable. — Hanna Wickes, Sacbee.com, 17 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for folded
Verb
  • Patti Kanegae, a former resident of Largo, said her bill to insure her older home there doubled over four years, from $2,000 to $4,000, despite improvements to protect it against damaging hurricane winds.
    — Ron Hurtibise, Sun Sentinel, 25 Sep. 2026
  • Other parents have told me their children’s bus ride times have doubled and many are spending more than an hour each way on the bus.
    — Naperville Sun, Chicago Tribune, 25 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • While the warehouse project has flopped, records show that in the last few months ICE has quietly expanded its detention system in other ways.
    — Jasmine Garsd, NPR, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Reigns flopped into the corner and waited for the right moment to strike with a spear.
    — Ryan Gaydos OutKick, FOXNews.com, 15 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Others fled the country entirely to escape persecution and to find new work as the economy collapsed.
    — Andrew Nachemson, The Dial, 22 Sep. 2026
  • Thirty-two houses in the park have collapsed into the Atlantic since 2020.
    — Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 22 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The county has failed to provide evidence that the quarry owner’s reclamation plan wouldn’t substantially interfere with animals’ movement, wrote Kim Freeburn, an environmental program manager with the department.
    — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2026
  • In the end, Michigan had one more shot to make a stop to seal the win and failed.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 27 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Bryce Young has struggled against man-to-man defenses, completing just over 40 percent of his passes this year against that scheme, and Cleveland has played man on about half of its defensive snaps this year.
    — Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 27 Sep. 2026
  • South Africa has struggled with violent crime for years, but recent shootings have shocked a country used to some of the highest homicide rates in the world.
    — Gerald Imray, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2026

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“Folded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/folded. Accessed 30 Sep. 2026.

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