as in signed
to write one's name on (as a document)
the basketball star just inked a two-year contract with the most celebrated franchise in the NBA
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Recent Examples of inked
The streaming giant has recently inked eleventh-hour deals with Paramount, Fox and NBCUniversal.
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Liam Reilly, CNN Money, 31 Oct. 2025
There’s a pair of cherries inked right above her knee.
—Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
Anthropic and Google deepened their cloud partnership last week in a deal worth tens of billions of dollars, while Meta has inked hefty cloud deals with Google and Oracle in recent months.
—Annie Palmer, CNBC, 30 Oct. 2025
Announced in October 2022, Disney’s agreement to co-produce Doctor Who was inked at the height of the streaming wars, just weeks before Bob Iger walked back into the building and started scaling back spending.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 30 Oct. 2025
Blueprint inked its first direct-school deal earlier this year with Maryland, establishing the company as the university’s NIL deal-sourcing partner, similar to how companies like Learfield or Playfly operate as multimedia rights holders.
—Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 30 Oct. 2025
On Wednesday, the Utah Mammoth inked former Gophers forward Logan Cooley to an eight-year contract extension that will pay him an average annual value of $10 million.
—Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 29 Oct. 2025
But until he's inked a deal elsewhere, optimistic Phillies fans can keep holding out hope that Dombrowski will try to keep the rotation intact.
—Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
Earlier this month, Disney inked a renewal with Comcast for continued carriage of the Mouse House’s networks.
—Todd Spangler, Variety, 23 Oct. 2025
Liam Reilly, CNN Money, 31 Oct. 2025
There’s a pair of cherries inked right above her knee.
—Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
Anthropic and Google deepened their cloud partnership last week in a deal worth tens of billions of dollars, while Meta has inked hefty cloud deals with Google and Oracle in recent months.
—Annie Palmer, CNBC, 30 Oct. 2025
Announced in October 2022, Disney’s agreement to co-produce Doctor Who was inked at the height of the streaming wars, just weeks before Bob Iger walked back into the building and started scaling back spending.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 30 Oct. 2025
Blueprint inked its first direct-school deal earlier this year with Maryland, establishing the company as the university’s NIL deal-sourcing partner, similar to how companies like Learfield or Playfly operate as multimedia rights holders.
—Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 30 Oct. 2025
On Wednesday, the Utah Mammoth inked former Gophers forward Logan Cooley to an eight-year contract extension that will pay him an average annual value of $10 million.
—Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 29 Oct. 2025
But until he's inked a deal elsewhere, optimistic Phillies fans can keep holding out hope that Dombrowski will try to keep the rotation intact.
—Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
Earlier this month, Disney inked a renewal with Comcast for continued carriage of the Mouse House’s networks.
—Todd Spangler, Variety, 23 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inked
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Earlier that day a few volunteers at our Joni and Friends Retreat for special needs families signed her up for the children's group.—
Joni Eareckson Tada,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Oct. 2025
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Numerous teams, including the NFL’s Arizona Cardinals, MLB’s Arizona Diamondbacks and the NBA’s Washington Wizards, have signed deals to put physical betting shops inside their stadiums and arenas, Matheson noted.—
Chris Isidore,
CNN Money,
25 Oct. 2025
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“Inked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inked. Accessed 1 Nov. 2025.
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