leavened

past tense of leaven

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for leavened
Verb
  • Though only half the length of their 2025 breakthrough debut, the New York quartet’s second album is dense with ideas and enlivened by purpose.
    Grayson Haver Currin, Pitchfork, 11 June 2026
  • Pete Crow-Armstrong then enlivened the dugout in the ninth with a nifty headfirst slide and swim move to avoid the tag as the Pirates played the infield in.
    Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 29 May 2026
Verb
  • Most modern cyanobacteria have large antenna complexes (or phycobilisomes), built from proteins infused with light-absorbing pigments, that fan out from the thylakoid membrane in a large semicircle.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 10 June 2026
  • The Bath Butler readies a private outdoor soaking tub infused with botanicals, waiting for your arrival at your bungalow.
    Judith Garrison, AJC.com, 9 June 2026
Verb
  • Josh O’Connor and Emily Blunt are his overwhelmed disciples, imbued with discomfiting powers that could be key to making contact with these otherworldly guests.
    Eliana Dockterman, Time, 10 June 2026
  • Barnes once imbued their relationship odysseys with enough levity to keep the party going.
    Ethan Beck, Pitchfork, 9 June 2026
Verb
  • Often mixed in to the beat are noisemakers like matracas – wooden objects in the shape of flags that produce a loud clacking sound when spun – and plastic horns called cornetas, which fans use to keep the matches animated from start to finish.
    Michael Rios, CNN Money, 7 June 2026
  • Amazon's warehouse robot Proteus has animated eyes to communicate safely with humans.
    Sawdah Bhaimiya, CNBC, 5 June 2026
Verb
  • As the first show without late drummer/lyricist Neil Peart since 1974, the kick-off was suffused with nearly overwhelming emotion, both onstage and off.
    Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 10 June 2026
  • That essay, written in 1940 — the same year Native Son was published — is suffused with profound hopelessness for what was indeed to come.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 June 2026
Verb
  • The Mandalorian/Din Djarin Played by Pedro Pascal, Din is steeped deeply in the culture of his people.
    Chris Snellgrove, Entertainment Weekly, 21 May 2026
  • Just from a personal standpoint, that was also joyful for me, living in this other environment and getting steeped into it and feeling it out.
    William Earl, Variety, 17 May 2026
Verb
  • Inoculation involved taking pus from a pock of someone with a not-very-severe case of smallpox, making a cut in the arm of the person to be inoculated, and rubbing the pus into the cut.
    Diana Gitig, ArsTechnica, 30 May 2026
  • In 1796, English physician Edward Jenner successfully inoculated 8-year-old James Phipps against smallpox by using cowpox matter.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2026
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“Leavened.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leavened. Accessed 12 Jun. 2026.

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