fudged 1 of 2

past tense of fudge
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fudged

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adjective

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of fudged
Adjective
Local police department statistics show violent crime in Washington has declined in recent years, but Trump has countered, without offering evidence, that the numbers were fudged. Darlene Superville, Chicago Tribune, 27 Aug. 2025 The last time Tesla tried to reward and incentivize Musk, a $56 billion pay package granted in 2018 tied to revenue and market-capitalization milestones was twice nixed by a Delaware court, which ruled the company had fudged its disclosures to shareholders. Rohan Goswami, semafor.com, 4 Aug. 2025 If the final numbers were fudged, employees who worked on inputs to those numbers would realize that and speak up, Hall said. Paul Davidson, USA Today, 28 Mar. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fudged
Verb
  • Passed over to his hapless son (Dacre Montgomery), our (anti-)hero wires a shotgun to his head and takes him hostage, claiming that the organization’s business maneuvers cheated him out of a substantial fortune.
    Radhika Seth, Vogue, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The woman lives alone, AFP added, citing local media outlets, and was ultimately cheated out of approximately 1 million yen, or about $6,700.
    Jillian Frankel, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • When the condition strikes, that signal is distorted, causing muscles to move involuntarily or get stuck in an abnormal position.
    Sandee LaMotte, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2025
  • In a world where images are so numerous and so difficult to understand, truth itself can be in danger, threatened by false interpretations and distorted, misleading half-truths.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Moreover, though, the show seems to want to confer a kind of authenticity upon a milieu that many worried would be grotesquely misrepresented by creators who aren’t exactly immersed in local journalism.
    Jesse Hassenger, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The group of climate scientists found several examples where the DOE authors cherry-picked or misrepresented climate science in the agency's report.
    Julia Simon, NPR, 2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The company in 2020 pleaded guilty to distributing adulterated ice-cream products and agreed to pay a fine over the outbreak.
    Dylan Tokar, WSJ, 2 Feb. 2023
  • And while most of those overdoses involved the illicit synthetic opioid fentanyl, experts say that an adulterated and contaminated drug supply is also leading to deaths.
    Nadia Kounang, CNN, 17 Mar. 2022
Adjective
  • One of them, Hip Optical, which touts designer eyewear at non-designer prices, opened earlier this year across from the Apple Store and near True Food Kitchen and BJ’s Brewhouse.
    Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 24 May 2024
  • The order arrived as a white, non-designer T-shirt, size 2XL.
    Sha Hua, WSJ, 21 June 2022

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“Fudged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fudged. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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