kittened

past tense of kitten

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for kittened
Verb
  • Read the full Virgo Daily Horoscope This horoscope was generated automatically using information from Sanctuary.
    USA TODAY, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
  • According to the letters, industrial sludge material generated from the mill's operations had been spread on multiple farm fields in Stella at least since 1996.
    Madeline Heim, jsonline.com, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Hearing his wife recall painful memories due to the family feud kindled a recent memory for Todd, too — an angry one.
    Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Anhedönia’s earliest exposure to contemporary culture came in the form of the true-crime serials her grandmother loved, which kindled her own interest in the macabre.
    Holden Seidlitz, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Musk, the founder of Tesla and SpaceX, has fathered 14 children in total.
    Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The exes share four kids — daughters Katherine and Christina and sons Patrick and Christopher — while Schwarzenegger also fathered son Joseph Baena with former housekeeper Mildred Patricia Baena.
    Jack Smart, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Metroid and Castlevania begot the Metroidvania; hell, today, practically every game of any high difficulty gets roped in with soulslikes (referencing Dark Souls).
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The Indian Adoption Program which begat the Indian Child Welfare Act.
    Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Yates then made an issue of it on the podcast, which spawned an interesting discussion with Kiper.
    Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 2 Oct. 2025
  • What started as a daily ritual for millions of listeners has spawned a digital empire for the sisters.
    Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Bowie recently sired a calf there, making Fort Worth Zoo elephant matriarch Rasha a great-grandmother.
    Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The brother lions sired several cubs over their long reign at the zoo.
    Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Using pure well water, wild yeasts (some propagated from its own fruit trees and beehives), local and heirloom grains, hops, and fruits, and house sour cultures, the brewery creates, ages, blends and bottles unique, small-batch beers exhibiting the wildness of Oregon terroir.
    Ben Davidson Correspondent, Oc Register, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Boom, that prevents the true underlying disorder of being delusional from being propagated by the AI.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • That front page is reproduced below.
    Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 2 Oct. 2025
  • These filaments have long been observed in real clusters like Perseus but never before reproduced in a simulation.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2025
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“Kittened.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kittened. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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