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jaded

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verb

past tense of jade

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of jaded
Adjective
But Kivlen, who grew up on Long Island, began to feel jaded with the city as his twenties drew to an end. Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 9 July 2026 Even for jaded American soccer fans, the lopsided result landed like a shock. Ian Crouch, New Yorker, 7 July 2026
Verb
Gen Zers jaded by sky-high tuition costs and workers wanting to ditch their unfulfilling desk jobs are turning to blue-collar jobs as their next professional adventure. Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 26 Feb. 2026 He's been jaded by, uh, Southern California surf culture. Outside Online, 1 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for jaded
Recent Examples of Synonyms for jaded
Adjective
  • His handicapping merited attention and newsletter sales, but Steele soon tired of tipping his own hand to the oddsmakers in Vegas.
    Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026
  • More and more young people are turning toward low- or no-tech lives, tired of the endless scroll most of us face for hours each day.
    Greta Cross, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • Those who love history will never grow bored in Georgetown, a place filled with museums and historical sites.
    Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 18 Aug. 2026
  • If teachers gear their lessons to the least advanced, the advanced students are bored.
    Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 14 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Maybe the modest size of tonight’s group wearied Nina.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Though their studio albums of the period all reached the top 20, the Dead were wearied by operating their own label, and Grateful Dead Records folded in late 1976.
    Chris Morris, Variety, 10 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • Even Musk, despite his vow to take a chainsaw to the bureaucracy, seemed exhausted by the vastness of what his Department of Government Efficiency had taken on, and abandoned DOGE over a year earlier than planned.
    Jennifer Pahlka, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Create healthy boundaries around activities that might leave you feeling depleted or exhausted, such as unnecessary social media scrolling.
    Brittney Melton, NPR, 17 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • As competition intensifies, Walmart and Kroger are lowering prices across the board to appeal to inflation-weary, cost-conscious consumers.
    Bloomberg, Mercury News, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Within years, the iconoclastic comic was a weary and defeated man — broke, baggy-eyed, and prematurely old.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2026

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“Jaded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jaded. Accessed 24 Aug. 2026.

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