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

The paper was a propaganda tool, and whatever Grossman may have wished to write, at first all the editors would permit were inspiring, deadly earnest pieces full of generalities.

— Nick Holdstock, The Dial, 8 Sep. 2026
Lopez wished all her followers a happy Labor Day by capturing a summery style moment.

— Lara Walsh, InStyle, 7 Sep. 2026

Definition of wished

Verb

If a doorway intended to measure 1,200 millimetres was several millimetres out, the system could adjust joint sizes, select different bricks or cut materials.

— Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2026
The announcement on the Facebook page of the Royal Cambodian Army came after several recent meetings of the countries’ top defense and other officials intended to patch up rocky relations.

— ABC News, ABC News, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of intended

Verb

Two years later, when coached by New Zealander Warren Gatland, Wales learned that a haka was not technically over until any side looked away — and so began a tense 80-second stare-off between the two sides.

— Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
Extreme mountain climbing has never looked anything but miserable from the distance of a screening room, and The Other Side delivers mightily on all that scraping, straining, gasping toil.

— Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of looked

Verb

His comments come seven months after Tiley proposed a move in the opposite direction by suggesting that best-of-five-set matches be introduced in the women’s competition at the Australian Open from the quarter-finals onwards.

— Amelie Claydon, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
The team also proposed combining naval guns with electronic warfare and laser defenses.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 7 Sep. 2026

Definition of proposed

Verb

The Cinderella dress that Kaitlyn Argyriou’s mother had sewn for her as a child and which Argyriou’s daughter, Avery, 4, had planned to wear trick-or-treating in Colorado Springs on Halloween.

— Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 5 Sep. 2026
The production planned to grab exterior footage outside Broadway’s Music Box Theatre — the film’s principal location — before a New York City blizzard intervened.

— Clayton Davis, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of planned

Verb

This discovery meant that cherry juice as a performance supplement was born.

— Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
Ganiyu received about $671,438 from citizenship applicants through Zelle and Cash App, along with $287,830 in cash deposits that prosecutors say were meant to conceal the money’s source, according to court documents, the New York Post reported.

— Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 7 Sep. 2026

Definition of meant

Verb

In a move away from the traditional group stages, the league phase is designed to be fair through a seeding system.

— Leon Imber, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
The approach is designed to increase the speed and scale of module production and installation while maintaining quality.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 9 Sep. 2026