LEAGUED Synonyms: 58 Similar and Opposite Words

leagued

verb

past tense of league

as in united

to form or enter into an association that furthers the interests of its members the whole block leagued together to keep a liquor store from opening in their neighborhood

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as in collaborated

to participate or assist in a joint effort to accomplish an end some unlikely political bedfellows leagued together to get the bill passed

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Recent Examples of leagued The leagued released a scheduling matrix with KU playing 18 Big 12 games. — Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 11 June 2026

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Pressure for Britain — along with the United States, Portugal, Spain and others who profited from slavery — to pay reparations has increased in recent years as Caribbean and African nations united behind the issue.

— ABC News, ABC News, 28 Oct. 2026
Huerta in Stockton and Chávez in San José — and later united over their common concern for farmworkers.

— James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of united

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The two actors only professionally collaborated on 1975’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, which Douglas produced and Nicholson starred in.

— McKinley Franklin, HollywoodReporter, 31 Oct. 2026
Researchers from Illinois and Notre Dame collaborated on the project through their respective engineering departments.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of collaborated

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Peltola is a gun-owning, fish-catching Alaska-bush native, who has worked for mines and supports oil drilling, and is allied with the state’s largest labor unions.

— Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2026
Meanwhile, the national army is advancing alongside the Tigray Peace Force, a group of former TPLF fighters now allied with Addis Ababa.

— Siyanne Mekonnen, Christian Science Monitor, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of allied

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Is the integration management office strategically empowered with the authority, accountability and federated PMO ecosystem needed to orchestrate people, partners and workstreams across both entities through go-live?

— Tipu Usha Vaithee Swaran, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 2026
The nonprofit Ebell Club was chartered and federated on March 9, 1984, and since that time, members have raised more than $300,000 for numerous philanthropies both within the community and national organizations.

— Sharon Hlapcich, Oc Register, 17 Feb. 2026

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