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as in to suffuse
to cause (as a person) to become filled or saturated with a certain quality or principle
invested the film with his own enthusiasm for the wonders of flight
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as in to gift
to furnish freely or naturally with some power, quality, or attribute
a woman invested with the strong desire to make the world a better place
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as in to enable
to give official or legal power to
invested him with power of attorney
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as in to clothe
to outfit with clothes and especially fine or special clothes
a fashion designer who has invested a number of the winners of the best actress award
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as in to induct
to put into an office or welcome into an organization with special ceremonies
the beloved actor was finally invested as a knight by the queen
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as in to besiege
to surround (as a fortified place) with armed forces for the purpose of capturing or preventing commerce and communication
the city was mercilessly invested for an entire year, but never fell
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as in to wrap
to surround or cover closely
nightfall invested the land
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Recent Examples of invest
The county’s Office of Economic Development would invest up to $300,000 for initial site improvements at Discovery Park.
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Reeti Malhotra, Sacbee.com, 10 June 2026
Walking man The man responsible for investing one of the largest pools of capital in the world doesn’t own a car in the US.
—Bloomberg, Oc Register, 10 June 2026
The district is investing $25 million into those schools.
—Lina Ruiz, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 June 2026
BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, is investing $100 million to train 50,000 plumbers, electricians, and HVAC technicians over the next five years.
—Jacqueline Munis, Fortune, 10 June 2026
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Reeti Malhotra, Sacbee.com, 10 June 2026
Walking man The man responsible for investing one of the largest pools of capital in the world doesn’t own a car in the US.
—Bloomberg, Oc Register, 10 June 2026
The district is investing $25 million into those schools.
—Lina Ruiz, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 June 2026
BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, is investing $100 million to train 50,000 plumbers, electricians, and HVAC technicians over the next five years.
—Jacqueline Munis, Fortune, 10 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for invest
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As the first show without late drummer/lyricist Neil Peart since 1974, the kick-off was suffused with nearly overwhelming emotion, both onstage and off.—
Brian Hiatt,
Rolling Stone,
10 June 2026
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That essay, written in 1940 — the same year Native Son was published — is suffused with profound hopelessness for what was indeed to come.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 June 2026
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Since launching in 2017, the foundation has gifted nearly $600,000 to 300 families, per the website.—
Caroline Blair,
PEOPLE,
10 June 2026
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Four years after Zinedine Zidane’s infamous headbutt gifted the trophy to Italy, Les Bleus self-imploded during a disastrous 2010 campaign that embarrassingly ended at the group stage.—
Jon O'Brien,
Vulture,
10 June 2026
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Inexplicably, six Republicans in the Assembly and one in the Senate agreed to vote for AB 1768, thereby allowing many Democrats to skip the politically risky vote to enable yet another tax hike on working people.—
Susan Shelley,
Daily News,
10 June 2026
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Iturmendi believes the solid-state batteries will enable these missions on a single charge.—
Chris Young,
Interesting Engineering,
10 June 2026
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Fans clad in Chicago’s black pinstripes and Dodger blue alike rose to their feet.—
Maddie Lee,
Los Angeles Times,
13 June 2026
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In 2024 French and American scientists were able to contain plasma at 50 million degrees Celsius for six minutes by using a fusion device called a tokamak clad in tungsten instead of the traditional graphite tiles.—
Ari Sen,
Scientific American,
13 June 2026
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Fifteen of them were inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame.—
Kevin Baxter,
Los Angeles Times,
9 June 2026
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New entrants were inducted into the main group, the Great Hall, by an account called the Master of Scrolls and Decorum.—
Heidi Blake,
New Yorker,
8 June 2026
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The mass shooting that claimed 49 lives and injured dozens of others—the deadliest hate crime targeting LGBTQ+ people in American history—still leaves a grievous mark, most especially in a city, state and nation besieged with new attacks on the gay community.—
R. Daniel Foster,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2026
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In place of the ancient forest was a shorn land besieged by uncontrollable wildfires, prone to land-slides and erosion.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 June 2026
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The couple packed on the PDA, holding hands, wrapping their arms around each other, kissing, and glancing lovingly at one another.—
Christina Perrier,
InStyle,
9 June 2026
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The first police officer to arrive on scene found Rylaarsdam performing CPR on Dale, who was wearing sweatpants and shiny black boots and was wrapped in clingy plastic from about the thighs down.—
Teri Figueroa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 June 2026
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Cooking scallions low and slow draws out their aroma, which infuses the oil that becomes part of the sauce for this dish.—
The Washington Post,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 June 2026
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Most modern cyanobacteria have large antenna complexes (or phycobilisomes), built from proteins infused with light-absorbing pigments, that fan out from the thylakoid membrane in a large semicircle.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
10 June 2026
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“Invest.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/invest. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.
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