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glued

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verb

past tense of glue

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Recent Examples of glued
Verb
And if the elements are glued on, the dryer is likely to cause the glue to melt. Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 7 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for glued
Verb
  • The restricted area is bounded by State Route 237 to the north, Calabazas Creek to the west, Highway 101 and Montague Expressway to the south and the Guadalupe River to the east.
    Grace Hase, Mercury News, 6 Jan. 2026
  • The committee’s mission is to protect the quality of life within Oak Lawn, generally bounded within Woodall Rodgers Freeway, North Central Expressway, Highland Park, Inwood Road, Harry Hines Boulevard and Oak Lawn Avenue.
    Timia Cobb Breaking News Reporter, Dallas Morning News, 5 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • Yet advocates say bonded labor is still rampant in the sugar industry, as recent incidents in Maharashtra have shown.
    Haziq Qadri, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 May 2023
  • Its bonded and riveted aluminum chassis features a suspension that doesn't crack teeth even in its firmest setting.
    Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 18 Jan. 2023
Verb
  • Samson noted that throughout fashion history, only garments for women have been designed with rear closures, with the possible exception amid the utopian Saint-Simonian sect in 19th-century France, when men wore waistcoats that fastened from behind, requiring assistance.
    Miles Socha, Footwear News, 7 Nov. 2025
  • There, a group of KPMG staffers followed and sometimes interjected their own thoughts on the building, while workers fastened the last screws on light bulbs and organized plants strewn around the office.
    Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • The embers are gone and the dust has settled a year later, but most of those houses are still vacant lots and families remain stuck in limbo.
    Eric Noll, ABC News, 8 Jan. 2026
  • On top of everything, California’s $4 trillion economy is more or less stuck in neutral, with the nation’s highest unemployment rate, no net job growth since the COVID-19 pandemic and severe employment cutbacks in signature sectors, such as film and TV production technology.
    Dan Walters, Mercury News, 7 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • Under his rule, Venezuela’s economy imploded, democratic institutions were hollowed out, criminal networks fused with the state, and millions fled the country – many for the United States.
    Monica Duffy Toft, The Conversation, 5 Jan. 2026
  • While Bad Bunny’s previous albums also fused different genres — including bossa nova, mambo, rock, merengue and more — this album’s melange was more homegrown.
    Maria Sherman, Chicago Tribune, 2 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • With semi-precious stones, they are adhered with glue and the bond will wear down over time.
    Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 27 Dec. 2025
  • Participants adhered well, spending 73 percent of the study in ketosis.
    Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • For context, a simple baguette, which can be made with additives and baked from frozen, is around a euro.
    Vivian Song, CNN Money, 8 Nov. 2025
  • Target’s four-person meal costs less than $20, about the same as in 2024, but substitutes green beans and cream of mushroom soup for French bread and frozen corn — also not an apples-to-apples comparison.
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 8 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • Its recovery has been splintered, given the varying subsectors of retail, from large indoor malls to big-box centers to grocery-anchored, open-air strip centers.
    Diana Olick, CNBC, 29 Oct. 2025
  • The thinking being the inflation will not prove persistent as inflation expectations remain anchored.
    Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025

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“Glued.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/glued. Accessed 10 Jan. 2026.

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