grown (in)

verb

Definition of grown (in)next
past participle of grow (in)
as in gained
to gradually increase in you've grown in wisdom over the years

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  1. gained
  2. gathered
  3. built up
Verb
  • Shares have jumped 48% year to date and gained 2% in the premarket.
    — Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 11 Aug. 2026
  • In July, OpenAI disclosed that an autonomous AI agent escaped the boundaries of a cybersecurity evaluation and ultimately gained unauthorized access to Hugging Face's production infrastructure.
    — Emil Sayegh, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of gained
Verb
  • Photos capture the high-energy of Outside Lands, where 225,000 festivalgoers—75,000 per day—gathered in Golden Gate Park for a three-day celebration of music, culture, and community.
    — Ray Chavez, Mercury News, 11 Aug. 2026
  • The organization created a site for her story with all the information the family had gathered over the years.
    — Avni Trivedi, CNN Money, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of gathered
Verb
  • Chinese factories have built up the capacity to produce roughly 1,200 gigawatts of solar infrastructure annually—nearly double the amount installed worldwide last year.
    — Michael B. G. Froman, Foreign Affairs, 13 Aug. 2026
  • But criticism of the outdoor dining arrangements built up, with detractors saying the spots were unsightly, dirty, and harboring rats.
    — Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of built up
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“Grown (in).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grown%20%28in%29. Accessed 18 Aug. 2026.

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