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glued

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verb

past tense of glue

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for glued
Verb
  • Within moments, the rangy 29-year-old actor Harris Dickinson bounds down an exterior staircase and shakes my hand.
    Liam Hess, Vogue, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Then, as if that were not enough excitement for any hunter at one time, a big mule-deer buck broke out of the thicket and bounded away to my left, straight for Sally.
    Robert Merchant, Outdoor Life, 1 Oct. 2025
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
  • Anna fastened her meaning on Vronsky; Levin fastens his meaning on the land.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The brooch was eventually fastened to an even more extravagant necklace, featuring 16 Colombian emeralds set between diamond quatrefoils.
    Julia Teti, Footwear News, 19 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Mercury’s retrograde ends on the 7th and will help clear up any misunderstandings or mental fog that have kept you stuck in the wrong dynamics for too long.
    Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Oct. 2025
  • However, Ecclestone led opposition to their use, and Renault was ultimately convinced that the V6s would achieve its aims and so stuck around.
    Alex Kalinauckas, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In an early maturer, most might be fully fused around the age of 16 (18 on average) but in certain parts of the body, such as the hip, that can happen a little later.
    Sarah Shephard, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The toner is fused to the paper's surface, rather than being absorbed into it, as with ink.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Participants adhered well, spending 73 percent of the study in ketosis.
    Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The Midtown café offers an extensive menu of beverages, including various coffees, slushes and a frozen white chocolate.
    Lyndsay C. Green, Freep.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The researchers found that live ants worked much better than dehydrated and frozen ants as a starter for fermentation.
    Amarachi Orie, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Longfellow’s departure, however, is a bit more surprising, as he had been seen as a possible future host for Weekend Update, the anchored topical segment that runs in the middle of each week’s episode.
    Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 28 Aug. 2025
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“Glued.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/glued. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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