loaned

past tense of loan
as in lent
to give to another for temporary use with the understanding that it or a like thing will be returned can you loan me your lawn mower this weekend?

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Recent Examples of loaned Mbappe’s cost would be booked the following season, with the forward loaned to PSG for 2017-18 rather than permanently signed. — Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2026 In 2021, then-Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador requested that the headdress be loaned to Mexico for an exhibition commemorating 500 years since the fall of the city of Tenochtitlan. — News Desk, Artforum, 12 Oct. 2026 Most items come from the maison’s archive, with a few loaned by private collectors. — Tanya Dukes, Robb Report, 12 Oct. 2026 The same tiara was later loaned to Katharine's daughter, Lady Helen Taylor, on her wedding day in 1992. — Stephanie Bridger-Linning, Vanity Fair, 10 Oct. 2026 Charles loaned the money to his brother, now known as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, out of his private income to ensure that the Crown Estate was paid on time, a person familiar with the payment said Friday. — Danica Kirka, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026 That same month, the Office of Strategic Capital loaned Vulcan Elements $620 million to expand its operation. — ABC News, 7 Oct. 2026 The owner of Banco Master, a bank that offered above-market interest rates, is alleged to have given side payments and lucrative contracts to families of Supreme Court justices and loaned his private jets to justices for personal travel. — Matias Spektor, Foreign Affairs, 2 Oct. 2026 Two pandas arrived in San Diego in June 2024, the first time China had loaned new pandas to the US in more than two decades. — Eduardo Cuevas, CNN Money, 28 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for loaned
lent
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  • In 2026, the gemlike Brooklyn venue lent Kushner’s project a magical quality, turning the audience into ghosts from the future, eavesdropping on the fall of the Weimar Republic but unable to intervene.
    — Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2026
  • The live performance by An Yu also lent the show a stronger narrative quality.
    — Denni Hu, Footwear News, 21 Oct. 2026

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“Loaned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/loaned. Accessed 27 Oct. 2026.

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