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verb

past tense of letter

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Recent Examples of lettered
Verb
Consider Your Hair Type Hair types divide your hair’s growth pattern and texture into numbered, lettered categories. Ava Erickson, Outside Online, 22 Feb. 2025 What does Medigap cover? Buying Medigap can be daunting, since the policies come in an alphabet soup of lettered plan choices (A, B, C, D, F, G, K, L, M and N). Mark Miller, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2025 Loading your audio article A mysterious track defect somewhere along a major New York City subway line is wearing out the wheels on subway cars, causing a shortage of trains on the lettered lines, the Daily News has learned. Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 8 Jan. 2025 No more wondering about point differentials and lettered groups! Zach Harper, The Athletic, 5 Aug. 2024 See All Example Sentences for lettered
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lettered
Adjective
  • When the system supports individuals, particularly those who may not be financially literate enough to override their subconscious trauma responses, the outcomes are significantly more positive.
    Alejandra Rojas, Forbes.com, 5 July 2025
  • Today, Ride’s legacy lives on in Sally Ride Science, a nonprofit founded by Ride and O’Shaughnessy in 2001 to inspire girls to become scientifically literate and to draw girls and women into the STEM fields.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 11 June 2025
Adjective
  • The at-home beauty and personal care space continues to evolve as consumers become more educated about skincare, in part thanks to online beauty influencers/educators.
    Sharon Edelson, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
  • It feels tied to the intimidation she’s felt in previous seasons while working alongside younger, more educated, faster chefs.
    Selome Hailu, Variety, 28 June 2025
Adjective
  • This family journey deeply shaped Fisher’s lifelong scholarly drive to chronicle the struggles and the triumphs of Black communities in the American West.
    Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 14 July 2025
  • Yet this has not discouraged a number of notable attempts to coerce emoji into the shape of a language, scholarly consensus be damned.
    Longreads, Longreads, 1 July 2025
Verb
  • Hackman also penned two solo novels, published in 2011 and 2013 by Simon & Schuster.
    Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Series star and executive producer Noah Wyle, who penned Episode 9, tells me that the assault on Dana is meant to represent the rise in violence against health care workers in recent years.
    Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 27 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Culture Low Stakes Forever Nicholas Hune-Brown Gordon Korman wrote his first bestseller in seventh grade.
    hazlitt.net, hazlitt.net, 4 Jan. 2025
  • Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito wrote a dissenting opinion.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 4 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Of those crew members, several inscribed their favorite scriptures on the raw wall and floor before stone or stucco was applied.
    Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Attached to the Statue of Liberty is a bronze plaque inscribed with a poem familiar to many Americans.
    Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 20 Mar. 2025

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“Lettered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lettered. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.

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