LEANED Synonyms: 57 Similar and Opposite Words

leaned

verb

past tense of lean

as in tilted

to set or cause to be at an angle just lean the ladder against the tree and climb up it

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as in tended

to show a liking or proneness (for something) the family's diet leans toward greasy food

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as in relied

to place reliance or trust you can always lean on me if you need help

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Recent Examples of leaned So, lacking any clear, unambiguous guidance on the future of V2X networks, autonomous-car makers—like Waymo, Tesla, Zoox, and Cruise—have leaned more on self-reliance, bulking up each vehicle with as many sensors and GPUs as possible. — IEEE Spectrum, 20 Aug. 2026 Not just anyone could pull off the beachy, free-spirited sandals, but her fashion sensibility has always leaned towards the ethereal and romantic. — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 20 Aug. 2026 This year's midterms odds already leaned toward the Democrats, historically typical when Republicans control the White House. — Chris Brennan, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2026 Donezar and Lara also leaned into the home’s original geometry—note the many chamfered corners, the octagonal nightstands in the bedroom, and the hexagonal mirror in the entryway. — Belén Afonso, Architectural Digest, 19 Aug. 2026 Jhonatan’s views on health care and education leaned left, but some of his most formative childhood memories involved witnessing violence. — Daniel Castro, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2026 Part of a bigger regional bet The premiere fits a strategy Prime Video has leaned into hard. — Veronica Villafañe, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026 To convey those sensory elements, the perfume house began by marrying cherry and davana, then leaned into fractionated patchouli oil and relied on black violet notes for their depth. — Robb Report Studio, Robb Report, 15 Aug. 2026 The company has leaned into original productions in recent years, distributing its shows across multiple devices domestically while pushing Asian content out to audiences abroad through its overseas streaming arm. — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 13 Aug. 2026

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Telling tilts To capture imagery of the impact site, LRO operators tilted the spacecraft so its cameras would point toward the target region each time the spacecraft passed about 60 miles (97 km) above the moon.

— Leonard David, Space.com, 19 Aug. 2026
River’s constantly tilted forward, against rain, sleet and wind.

— Hugh Hart, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2026

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Verizon , Philip Morris , Amgen and Johnson & Johnson also ranked among the stocks that have tended to move opposite Nvidia.

— Nick Wells, CNBC, 25 Aug. 2026
Growing up in Stockton, where a high concentration of braceros tended fields, Huerta said witnessing the workers’ subpar conditions drove her early activism.

— Isa Farfan, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of tended

Verb

He was thrown in the Andrean sectional game in baseball this last season, which is a monumental task, so he’s relied upon in multiple sports.

— Michael Osipoff, Chicago Tribune, 20 Aug. 2026
Solutions to the vehicle-to-everything (V2X) problem have to date relied on new networking protocols built from scratch—only to discover chicken-and-egg problems, thorny standards wars, and real signal congestion challenges at scale.

— IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of relied

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Most ground is sloped and covered in loose gravel or ankle-twisting stones.

— Ron Spomer, Outdoor Life, 19 Aug. 2026
Ensure your existing gutters are firmly secured, leak-free and properly sloped toward downspouts before mounting guards (a professional will do this as part of their initial assessment, too).

— Nick Perry, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of sloped

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The change allowed the parents to successfully argue that the trauma over their son's death counted as a disability that would exempt them from the punitive damages cap.

— Reuters, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2026
Venture capital has a specific reason to care; Crunchbase counted $300 billion of global venture investment in the first quarter of 2026, with four AI rounds accounting for 65% of it.

— Josipa Majic Predin, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2026

Definition of counted

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Sam’s head was bent low, his ear angled toward the mesh of their brown Stromberg-Carlson radio.

— Rozina Ali, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2026
Its steel cladding was also intentional, with the tower appearing more like a twisting, angled sculpture than something that's trying to blend in with its surroundings.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of angled

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Mathematicians weren’t able to make much progress; their best upper limit on the discrepancy, achieved in 1998, still depended strongly on the dimension of the problem.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 21 Aug. 2026
Trades have long been negotiated through emails, phone calls and chatrooms, while liquidity discovery has depended on fragmented dealer outreach and manual reconciliation.

— Brian Bejile, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2026