grooved

past tense of groove

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Recent Examples of grooved After a sacrifice bunt and Sears’ eighth strikeout — one shy of a season high — the 29-year-old left-hander grooved a middle-in sweeper for Blaine Crim to yank out to left, some 439 feet from the plate. Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Sep. 2025 With its signature grooved aluminum shell, Rimowa’s spinners are both a fashion statement and a piece of travel engineering. Julie Loffredi, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for grooved
Recent Examples of Synonyms for grooved
Verb
  • Before his sentencing, his attorneys filed a motion seeking a new trial, saying that evidence the jury heard does not prove his guilt, KCRG reports.
    KC Baker, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
  • The company has not yet filed formal plans with the city and now says that its plans could be at risk if the historic district is approved.
    Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 29 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • December’s Blizzard of the Month is the beloved Frosted Sugar Cookie Blizzard and is made of soft sugar cookie pieces, icing and sprinkles all blended with soft serve ice cream.
    Sabrina Weiss, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
  • These women practiced conjure, a spiritual tradition that blended West African religions with Christianity in the deep and low-country South.
    Essence, Essence, 29 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Though Leo’s lyrics are raw and scribed with vigor and delivered with a backing choir that breaks down into soprano, alto, and tenor vibrato, the track feels too theatric and out of step sonically with the rest of the album.
    Meagan Jordan, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Instead of one community, which might be de- scribed as democratic, there appear separate and distinct communities that must be de- scribed as totalitarian.
    Harpers Magazine, Harpers Magazine, 23 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Diversification, especially into areas that aren’t perfectly correlated, stabilizes your portfolio so that not every part moves in lockstep when markets shift.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The success of the Lakers is directly correlated to Ayton's performance night in and night out.
    Valentina Martinez, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • He was scratched up all over the place.
    Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Nothing really scratched the itch.
    Michal Lev-Ram, CNBC Contributor, CNBC, 30 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Morelli also corresponded with the man obtaining the videos for him and asked that the torture of the animals be prolonged in subsequent videos, according to a copy of the indictment filed in the case and obtained by PEOPLE.
    Chris Spargo, PEOPLE, 31 Oct. 2025
  • For this study, researchers analyzed data from 770 young, healthy adults to examine how certain aspects of their health and performance corresponded to different attributes of their sleep.
    Emma Loewe, Outside, 15 Oct. 2025

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“Grooved.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grooved. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.

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