locoed

past tense of loco

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for locoed
Verb
  • Vic and Cali hadn’t wanted a wedding, but this had disturbed Vic’s parents.
    Bryan Washington, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Some civil servants working to bolster democracy around the world and at home, for example, were disturbed by shifts in foreign policy.
    Yvonne Zylan, The Conversation, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The walk to the penalty spot didn’t feel long for Bronze, partly because she was distracted by the strapping.
    Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025
  • First published in 1985, the book warned that the threat to American democracy came not from state repression, but from a culture distracted by amusement.
    Time, Time, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • And she couldn’t be bothered to start things up again.
    Bryan Washington, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2025
  • No one has ever bothered me for doing this.
    R29 Team, Refinery29, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • At one point, O’Steen was confused by a question, and the resulting back-and-forth was reminiscent of an Abbott and Costello repartee.
    Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Sep. 2025
  • It should not be confused with Article 5, the cornerstone of the alliance, which states an armed attack on one NATO ally will be considered an act of violence against all members and prompt assistance to the member concerned.
    Lauren Kent, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • And among the three alternating points of view is one possibly unhinged bookseller.
    Susan Coll September 12, Literary Hub, 12 Sep. 2025
  • For those who never got sick of watching Dunder Mifflin’s few sane employees stare exasperatedly into the camera as one of its certifiable weirdos did something unhinged, there’s a good amount of that here, too.
    Judy Berman, Time, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Until now, the only intervention has been antibiotics, which in turn upset the koala's delicate digestive tract – one fine-tuned to solely eat eucalyptus leaves.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 9 Sep. 2025
  • This upset many people, like Greg Clem, who has lived on Timberline since 2016.
    Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Reuters — Ethiopia officially inaugurated Africa’s largest hydroelectric dam on Tuesday, a project that will provide energy to millions of Ethiopians while deepening a rift with downstream Egypt that has unsettled the region.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Through it all, what unsettled me in those places was the fragility of trust between armed patrols and the civilians around them — the uneasy sense that one spark could undo any tenuous stability.
    Eric Chastain, Twin Cities, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • And Kiritsis, as Skarsgård plays him (with a jittery but logical fast-talk fervor that makes this one of the actor’s two or three most potent performances), is a very different figure than the real Tony Kiritisis, who was older and more visibly deranged.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Fans are even speculating that Swift may drop the first single from her upcoming album, The Life of a Showgirl, in the series finale—which seems deranged, but weirder things have happened.
    Olivia Petter, Vogue, 2 Sep. 2025
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“Locoed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/locoed. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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