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verb

past tense of fuse
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as in melted
to go from a solid to a liquid state the lightning strike was so hot it caused the electrical wires to fuse and then drip onto the road

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Recent Examples of fused
Adjective
These hybrid corals, also called fused acropora, combine the best features of their parents. — Alex Harris july 22, Miami Herald, 22 July 2026 During the production process, two separate sheets of aluminum are pressed together through powerful rollers, resulting in a single, fused sheet that has one shiny side and one side with a matte finish. — Darcy Lenz, Southern Living, 6 June 2026 Its tech is essentially a hybrid of direct ink printing and fused deposition modeling, two of several techniques being developed by companies vying to bring these energy sources to market. — IEEE Spectrum, 3 Feb. 2026 Luckily, between 10 and 20 weeks, the pregnancy stabilized, but it was then revealed during an anatomy scan that her daughter had a single umbilical artery and fused kidneys, leading to frequent monitoring and long drives to different specialists. — Tereza Shkurtaj, PEOPLE, 1 Feb. 2026 Like the temporary residents of its way station between the living and the dead, the choice is yours in terms of fused cinematic comparisons. — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 25 Nov. 2025 The pair features a fused Swoosh logo where past Flyknit iterations were typically printed and sees the addition of a padded tongue and lacing configuration reminiscent of the brand’s Vomero 18 running shoe. — Riley Jones, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
Verb
His personal agony fused with despair over the military government, which continued to crack down on democracy activists. — E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026 Long before then, Basquiat had become a legend, an icon of a decade that fused the liberations of Downtown with the frustrations of Uptown. — Robb Report, 9 Oct. 2026 Working with a dedicated core of energetic young believers, Jim and his wife, Tammy Faye, built PTL from scratch, demonstrating how religion could be fused with pop culture and entertainment to better connect with American Christians. — John Wigger, The Conversation, 8 Oct. 2026 What’s emerged is a schizophrenic marketplace where art and commerce have fused into The Substance. — Joseph Kahn, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2026 The result is seamless data transfer fused onto a single user interface. — Dan Driscoll, Foreign Affairs, 28 Sep. 2026 Einstein’s theory fused space with time, and so if the three dimensions of space emerge from a spaceless point, then time should emerge from something timeless. — Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2026 The collection, entitled City Town Country, fused many of Kane’s design signatures with Mulberry’s heritage materials and silhouettes. — Lucy Maguire, Vogue, 21 Sep. 2026 With their bodies fused to his own, the monstrous Bryan roars atop the hospital as a military helicopter takes aim at him. — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 19 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fused
Adjective
  • Along with the four airframes, the container also holds integrated communications gear, localized power systems, and aircraft sustainment/maintenance equipment.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 16 Oct. 2026
  • The integrated workflow also supports maintenance and repair, helping the team identify hardware issues and return robots to testing faster.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 15 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • By 2015, New Atlas was covering innovations such as the Diamond Hotend, which combined three filament feeds into a single nozzle, although even that approach could produce waste towers when changing colors.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 17 Oct. 2026
  • The gusty offshore winds combined with very warm and dry conditions will maintain Red Flag Warnings for most of Los Angeles and Ventura counties through Saturday.
    — CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 17 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The buttery texture and toasted notes of Stag Leaps’ Winery 2023 Napa Valley Chardonnay ($35) match the rich, creamy elements and melted cheese of the recipe, while its mineral finish keeps the dish from feeling heavy.
    — Carole Kotkin, Miami Herald, 15 Oct. 2026
  • The naan pizza has a naan crust with the creamy tomato gravy used in the restaurant’s curry, melted cheese and choice of protein on top.
    — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The three colors are mixed in different combinations and ratios, producing 16 different shades.
    — Devika Rao, TheWeek, 19 Oct. 2026
  • Her friend’s cries mixed with the sound of police car sirens before officers arrived and escorted students and staff out the building.
    — Ray Sanchez, CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2026
Adjective
  • Located within Huafon’s industrial footprint, the site will use Circ’s technology to recover both the cotton and polyester components of blended textile waste.
    — Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2026
  • The blended water is expected to contain approximately 20% to 40% from the Susquehanna River, mixed with reservoir water.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • So the two started chatting and wondered if there was a resource where they could get connected to couples having a wedding in their area who needed a seat-filler of sorts.
    — Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2026
  • The two filmmakers had been struggling to get anyone else in Holmes’s orbit on-camera when Emma Stone, a close friend of Fielder’s, connected him with Amanda Seyfried.
    — Alex Barasch, Vulture, 19 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Salty water that isn’t frozen conducts electricity much better than ice-rich frozen ground, so the differences that show up can reveal areas where the ground has thawed.
    — Ming Xiao, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2026
  • Undamaged tomatoes can often be washed, their stems removed, and frozen solid, then thawed and used in salsas, stews, or marinara later on.
    — Anthony Reardon, Kansas City Star, 11 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The verticality of these works can be seen as an aspirational self-portrait in which destruction and rebirth are literally and metaphorically merged.
    — John Yau, ARTnews.com, 18 Oct. 2026
  • The campus in question had already been closed and merged with another by the time the takeover was announced, but Morath said many of the district’s schools were struggling.
    — Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Oct. 2026

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“Fused.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fused. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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