GROWN (IN) Synonyms: 34 Similar and Opposite Words

grown (in)

verb

Definition of grown (in)

past participle of grow (in)

as in gained

to gradually increase in you've grown in wisdom over the years

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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

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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

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At that time, brands and retailers had built up too much inventory following a surge of post-Covid demand, which slowed with the rise of inflation in 2022.

— Cleo Levin, Footwear News, 6 Aug. 2026
Their bodies are built up in thick paint, their limbs modeled with short lateral strokes that wrap each arm into a solid cylinder.

— Carmen Rosenberg-Miller, Artforum, 6 Aug. 2026

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