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verb

past tense of invest
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as in inducted
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 besieged
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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Recent Examples of invested
Adjective
And even when the original clips of viral moments are authentic, they’re increasingly used as a launching point for embellished narratives and AI content – to capture an invested audience. Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 26 Mar. 2026
Verb
Los Angeles and Southern California are emerging as power centers in this surge, with nearly $8 billion invested across 207 deals, led by space and defense firms such as Anduril Industries and Impulse Space. Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026 For years, the only factory breeding sterile flies in the Western Hemisphere was in Panama, but the USDA invested $21 million to convert a site in southern Mexico from breeding fruit flies to recently start breeding screwworm flies. John Hanna, Chicago Tribune, 10 July 2026 Like many of the world’s highest-earning athletes, Djokovic has invested a portion of his wealth in real estate, assembling a portfolio that stretches from the Mediterranean to the mountains of Monaco and beyond. Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 10 July 2026 In the last two years, organizations have invested billions of dollars in generative AI. Dr. Sanjay Kumar, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026 Every dollar invested must deliver value and strengthen our economy. Scott Maxwell, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 July 2026 This means a larger portion of your cash will be invested directly in your home in the long run. Kelsey Neubauer, CNBC, 2 July 2026 Rather than simply adding warehouse capacity, companies have invested heavily in inventory visibility, warehouse management systems and item-level tracking that allow retailers to manage inventory across increasingly complex fulfillment networks. Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 2 July 2026 Google cofounder Sergey Brin has personally invested more than $250 million into LTA Research & Exploration, an aviation company building advanced airships. Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 2 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for invested
Adjective
  • Its chips are particularly well-suited for the increasing inference segment of AI, offering energy efficiency and bypassing critical manufacturing bottlenecks.
    Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
  • The app is especially well suited for beginners, busy professionals and anyone who feels overwhelmed by more complex budgeting systems.
    Catherine Collins, USA Today, 10 July 2026
Verb
  • Good binoculars will reveal a score of stars in this little group, while long-exposure observatory photographs show about 1000 in the area — all suffused in great clouds and streamers of nebulous light.
    Joe Rao, Space.com, 10 July 2026
  • Lyrically, these 10 songs are suffused with a bittersweet feeling of nostalgia for early adulthood, as heard on the album’s title track.
    Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 9 July 2026
Verb
  • No matter the semifinal results, the stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, where the Giants and Jets do all of their losing will be gifted an epic World Cup championship matchup on Sunday.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 13 July 2026
  • The Padres were gifted two runs in the first inning when Yesavage could hardly throw a strike.
    Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 July 2026
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  • Aramco’s East-West pipeline and its investments in storage facilities around the world enabled it to take advantage of higher crude prices.
    Matthew Martin, semafor.com, 14 July 2026
  • Three-dimensional adjustments of the lattice dimensions enabled precise tuning of localized thermal conductivity.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 14 July 2026
Verb
  • Ed Sheeran strides to Taylor Swift wedding Ed Sheeran, clad in a bright aqua blue suit, arrived holding hands with wife Cherry Seaborn.
    Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 4 July 2026
  • That was enough for France, whose red, white and blue-clad fans looked plenty patriotic on July Fourth in the city where the United States was founded exactly 250 years earlier.
    Dan Gelston, Chicago Tribune, 4 July 2026
Verb
  • This comes after Arison was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as part of the 2025 class last year.
    Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 15 July 2026
  • Now that Gallagher, 59, and Collins, 75, stand to run into one another when they’re inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this fall, Collins is speaking out.
    Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 14 July 2026
Verb
  • After word spread that a local attorney was starting a class action, residents said they were besieged by out-of-town lawyers competing aggressively for their business.
    Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2026
  • Boston was besieged by the Tartan Army.
    Becky Sullivan, NPR, 28 June 2026
Verb
  • In subsequent messages included in charging documents, Robinson referenced engraving bullets and leaving his rifle wrapped in a towel.
    Nicki Brown, CNN Money, 6 July 2026
  • Getty Images for Cannes Lions A week after Cannes Lions wrapped, most of the industry is back at their desks and the dust has settled enough to see what actually mattered versus what was just noise on the Croisette.
    Ian Shepherd, Forbes.com, 5 July 2026

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“Invested.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/invested. Accessed 17 Jul. 2026.

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