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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
Amazon, Meta, Alphabet, and Microsoft alone invested a staggering $400 billion in 2025 – and that was just on data centers. — Yerbol Orynbayev, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2026 The school has invested heavily in the team, but results have been average at best to this point. — David Troy Outkick, FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2026 The goal is to stay invested if that remains appropriate — not to try to time the market. — Sharon Epperson, CNBC, 2 Oct. 2026 Through its first venture fund, Fearless invested $26 million into dozens of startups founded by Black, Latina and Asian women. — Mirtha Donastorg, AJC.com, 1 Oct. 2026 Phoenix has also invested at least $40 million in Reshef Technologies, a company producing electronic fuzes for artillery shells. — Allegra Goodwin, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2026 Our research team examined that question in Hazelwood, where the Heinz Endowments invested to support the community that existed there before redevelopment began. — Ira Goldstein, The Conversation, 1 Oct. 2026 The lawsuit claimed the non-profit has invested more than $225 million in urban renewal in Kansas City since 1991. — Rashad Alexander, Kansas City Star, 29 Sep. 2026 Many companies have invested into attracting and retaining employees by offering them pay, healthcare, flexibility and personal growth. — Scott Parrish, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for invested
Adjective
  • The final decision should rest with the people who will work alongside the new hire, while technology is better suited to screening candidates at scale.
    — Lindsay Dodgson, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2026
  • McGuane turned to short fiction relatively late in his career, and, like Donald Antrim, seemed preternaturally suited to it.
    — Ryan Chapman, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • This is a book suffused with beauty, but climate emergency is its undercurrent.
    — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 19 Sep. 2026
  • After setting her wildly popular debut The Tiger's Wife in a Balkans suffused with myth and magic, the author turned in subsequent books to the Old West and a city redolent of New York.
    — Colin Dwyer, NPR, 4 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The duo, fundraising co-chairs on the Class of 2029 Council, distributed 100 quarts of soup to needy classmates last week, gifted to them by local restaurant Souper Jenny.
    — Jason Armesto, AJC.com, 25 Sep. 2026
  • That’s according to Guinness World Records, which acknowledges the feat and gifted Harris a special certificate.
    — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 23 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • My leadership is much more about providing a very clear direction and making sure that there’s a high degree of autonomy for people to feel empowered and enabled to do so.
    — Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 29 Sep. 2026
  • Expanding locations provides revenue generation, yet maintaining consistency preserves the brand that enabled expansion in the first place.
    — Tushar Mishra, Forbes.com, 29 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Several were naked or partially clothed and left in open areas near main roads.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 26 Sep. 2026
  • The Sun, who now begin the process of relocating to Houston for next season, gave their loyal, vociferous and orange-clad fans a goodbye present, a 95-81 victory over the Toronto Tempo, just a little something to remember them by.
    — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 25 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • He is set to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame this fall as part of the class of 2026, honored for his work with both Joy Division and New Order.
    — Jessica Lynch, Billboard, 29 Sep. 2026
  • Mantle, who died in 1995, is widely regarded as one of the greatest baseball players of all time and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 29 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • In recent months, Israeli settlers have repeatedly besieged the village of Qusra, defying orders from the authorities to leave the area and trying to force Palestinian families, some of whom are also American citizens, out.
    — Oren Liebermann, CNN Money, 30 Aug. 2026
  • There has been a spate of Israeli settler violence in the West Bank, and the village of Qusra has been besieged by Israeli settlers for weeks.
    — F. Brinley Bruton, NBC news, 29 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The principal actors came onboard, and the $45 million production began that July and had wrapped by September 2025.
    — E. Alex Jung, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Although his tour wrapped in early 2016, the band never pulled together a summer jaunt.
    — Leena Tailor, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2026

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“Invested.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/invested. Accessed 4 Oct. 2026.

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