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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
This deprived the state treasurer of huge assets that otherwise could have been invested to generate billions of dollars in revenue. Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 18 Sep. 2026 Venture capital firm Paradigm, which invested $200 million in Zipline in March, is reportedly in discussion to lead the new round, while another investor Tiger Global Management is considering participating. Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 18 Sep. 2026 After getting his start in cabinetmaking, Andrew invested all over Fall River, most consequentially in the real-estate business. Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2026 For now, Steyer’s critics in business and industry, who invested more than $37 million to thwart his gubernatorial bid, can breathe easier about any future political run. Ben Paviour, Sacbee.com, 18 Sep. 2026 Texas invested heavily its run game by signing transfers Raleek Brown and Smothers. ABC News, 17 Sep. 2026 The company invested more than $30 million to develop an inspection and reconditioning center at that location. Chase Jordan, Charlotte Observer, 17 Sep. 2026 Jawahar collected more than $35 million from Swiftarc investors from July 2016 through December 2023 but invested only about $10 million, the attorney’s office said. Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 17 Sep. 2026 Mubadala has invested more than $20 billion in China across more than 100 deals since 2015. Matthew Martin, semafor.com, 10 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for invested
Adjective
  • One week in, and the Bills may have some growing pains with this group, though Bishop seems well suited to the scheme and should have far better days.
    Joe Buscaglia, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Harry Hamlin, Rinna’s husband of nearly 30 years, also brought dimension to his suited look with oversize proportions.
    Julia Teti, Footwear News, 15 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • 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
  • The threat is still there, suffused into the air like a memory, but for a time the choice between love and survival no longer feels mutually exclusive to Nino and Yasmina.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 22 July 2026
Verb
  • As well, her Darlene De Sedle 22k gold and opal diamond ring and matching crystal opal bracelet from the suite once owned by Elizabeth Taylor and gifted to her by her husband.
    Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Chetal gifted a Lamborghini to his parents and hid a duffel bag filled with $500,000 in cash in their laundry machine.
    ABC News, ABC News, 7 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • This also enabled Laporta to improve his previously tense relationship with UEFA and its president, Aleksander Ceferin.
    Pol Ballús, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Teams should trace root causes, fix the control failures that enabled the path, and retest to prove the attacker’s route is actually gone.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Larsson tapped her go-to footwear designer, PC Footwear, for her set, clad in a pair of custom metallic pink buckle boots.
    Amina Ayoud, Footwear News, 20 Sep. 2026
  • The exterior is clad in glass and limestone that reflects the predominant materials on Northwestern’s nearby campus.
    Edward Keegan, Chicago Tribune, 19 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • He was inducted into the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences' Hall of Fame in 2002.
    MARK KENNEDY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Arkansas Online, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Chesney, who was inducted to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2025, recently finished a residency at The Sphere in Las Vegas.
    Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 15 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
  • According to the legislature’s nonpartisan Office of Fiscal Analysis, overtime spending in the 2025-26 fiscal year, which wrapped last June 30, approached $338 million, up almost 7% over the prior year.
    Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Several cast members have also died since the show wrapped, including Michelle Trachtenberg, Nicholas Brendon and Anthony Head.
    Kate Hogan, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2026

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“Invested.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/invested. Accessed 22 Sep. 2026.

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