Thesaurus results for HOPED

hoped

verb

past tense of hope

as in wished

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Recent Examples of hoped Patients and the company had hoped the therapy could move into an FDA review based on existing evidence, a hope that was dashed Monday. — Meg Tirrell, CNN Money, 5 Mar. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for hoped

Verb

Kate also wished Fery a happy birthday and handed him a birthday card from the family.

— Clare Fisher, PEOPLE, 13 July 2026
Artists moved in and created a milieu of pragmatism and imagination felt to this day, though a series of renovations had made this particular apartment feel more modern than Lesnoff-Rocard would have wished.

— Felix Wagner, Architectural Digest, 11 July 2026

Definition of wished

Verb

The law primarily applies to rural and small towns along with affluent suburbs and is intended to boost the supply of housing available to people with below-average incomes.

— Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 10 July 2026
No regular-season league matches in European football have previously been staged abroad, but Italy’s Serie A and La Liga, the top division of Spanish football, both had intended to do so last season.

— Dominic Fifield, New York Times, 10 July 2026

Definition of intended

Verb

Wall Street looked past geopolitical tensions with benchmark indexes rising on Big Tech strength and signs of easing inflation, even as Middle East hostilities escalated.

— Anniek Bao, CNBC, 16 July 2026
England looked cowed and browbeaten by the second half of the semifinal, which allowed Lionel Messi to do what only Lionel Messi can do.

— Ben Church, CNN Money, 16 July 2026

Definition of looked

Verb

To solve the dearth of heirs, government ministers have proposed reinstating former branches of the royal family, thereby expanding the pool of male successors.

— Hanako Montgomery, CNN Money, 14 July 2026
It was initially proposed as temporary event space associated with the 2026 FIFA World Cup, but plans were never completed in time for that to happen.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2026

Definition of proposed

Verb

In another discrepancy, Crump said that a witness reported Wells had planned to leave on the boat with his friends, contradicting the sheriff's theory.

— ABC News, ABC News, 11 July 2026
On Friday, during a press conference discussing the latest on Wells’ suspicious death, attorney Ben Crump announced that Tyler Perry had agreed to pay the family’s funeral costs, while Colin Kaepernick planned to pay for an independent autopsy.

— Michael Schneider, Variety, 11 July 2026

Definition of planned

Verb

Wahab previously said her bill is meant to prevent that same sort of abuse of taxpayer money in her district, which covers parts of Alameda and Santa Clara counties.

— Kyle Martin, Mercury News, 13 July 2026
The extreme demand for these shows — driven even higher after two headline-making nights — meant huge crowds of would-be concertgoers outside the ballpark on Sunday evening.

— Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 13 July 2026

Definition of meant

Verb

Louis Vuitton just unveiled its 2026 FIFA World Cup Trophy Trunk on Tuesday, marking the fifth time the luxury house has designed such a case for the international tournament.

— Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 14 July 2026
Meow Wolf, various locations Each Meow Wolf is its own interactive world designed by dozens of artists.

— Catherine Garcia, TheWeek, 14 July 2026