Thesaurus results for HEDGED

hedged

verb

Definition of hedged next

past tense of hedge

as in weaseled

to avoid giving a definite answer or position kept hedging whenever asked for an opinion on the matter

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as in housed

to close or shut in by or as if by barriers the prison was hedged by a high stone wall

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Recent Examples of hedged EasyJet has also hedged 70% of its summer fuel, leaving the remaining 30% vulnerable to volatile fuel prices. —

Sawdah Bhaimiya, CNBC, 6 May 2026 Some within the Republican Party have said Florida should aggressively redraw its map to counter Virginia, although others have hedged. —

Oren Oppenheim, ABC News, 27 Apr. 2026 Marquees in the 1960s pitched violent revenge movies like Bonnie and Clyde but also hedged with Mary Poppins. —

Peter Bart, Deadline, 23 Apr. 2026 The departure of Matt Roy was hedged somewhat by the signing of Joel Edmundson two summers ago, but replacing Vladislav Gavrikov and Jordan Spence with Brian Dumoulin and Cody Ceci while Drew Doughty, 36 and in his 18th season, grays and frays has proven highly counterproductive. —

Andrew Knoll, Daily News, 18 Apr. 2026 Even countries that have increased coal production since the war started have hedged their bets. —

Tristan Bove, Fortune, 16 Apr. 2026 The attachment to a communications consulting and strategy business creates the risk of conflicts of interest — or, even worse in the world of chat shows, that opinions will get hedged. —

Max Tani, semafor.com, 1 Apr. 2026 Center Arianna Roberson hedged too tentatively in pick-and-roll defense. —

Marcus Thompson Ii, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2026 Finnair, which had hedged over 80% of its first-quarter fuel purchases, warned, however, that even the availability of fuel could be at risk if the conflict dragged on. —

Shivangi Lahiri, USA Today, 10 Mar. 2026

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It is housed in the same building as the attraction’s affiliate, The Escape Game, which opened in 2015 and took hold in the world of escape rooms.

— Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 May 2026
The Spanish Revival skyscraper once housed one of the city’s first newspapers, but later served as a resource center for hundreds of thousands of Cubans seeking asylum in the United States, according to Miami Dade College, which now operates the site as a museum.

— ABC News, ABC News, 14 May 2026