grooved

past tense of groove

Example Sentences

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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
  • Suarez is now the subject of a state ethics complaint, filed last month by a Miami Beach resident, claiming that his communications violate campaign finance rules.
    Aaron Leibowitz, Miami Herald, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Trump filed a bogus lawsuit against the company that pivoted on the ridiculous claim that YouTube was a secret agent of the Biden administration.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Sandinista ideology blended Marxism, liberalism, and nationalism, borrowing ideas from both sides of the Iron Curtain.
    Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 8 Oct. 2025
  • For Hilton, whose public persona has always blended self-parody and glamour, the nod feels intentional — a bridge between two eras of women who mastered spectacle on their own terms.
    Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 4 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • There was no mention from Holloway that this decision is directly correlated to the team's on-field struggles.
    Reice Shipley, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Who knows if that intensity correlated to second half bump of inspiration for the Panthers, who came back after being down to win the game and earn their second victory of the season.
    Zach Dennis, Charlotte Observer, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The potatoes will have delicate skin that can be easily bruised or scratched, so handle them with care.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 7 Oct. 2025
  • But the Jaguars scratched and clawed their way back into the game thanks to a Devin Lloyd 99-yard interception return for a touchdown and Trevor Lawrence stumbling into the end zone for the game-winning touchdown.
    Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • To confirm the match, the team carefully aligned the Hubble and JWST images using 36 stars visible in both datasets as reference points, ensuring that every pixel corresponded to the same spot in the sky, the study noted.
    Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 8 Oct. 2025
  • To calculate the scattering amplitude for a collision of n particles, physicists would have to add up many BCFW terms — and each of those terms corresponded to a region of the positive Grassmannian in n dimensions.
    Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 6 Oct. 2025

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“Grooved.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grooved. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.

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