MARSHALED Synonyms: 88 Similar and Opposite Words

marshaled

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past tense of marshal

as in organized

to assemble and make ready for action marshaled their forces for battle

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as in steered

to point out the way for (someone) especially from a position in front marshaling a small group of children on a tour of the science museum

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as in arranged

to put into a particular arrangement marshal your arguments before you stand up to speak

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Recent Examples of marshaled On most professional shoots a phone camera would be supplemented with lenses, stabilizers, and ancillary gear—or, in the case of Danny Boyle’s 28 Years Later (2025), up to twenty iPhones could be marshaled into service at once. —

Dennis Lim, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2026 The final tinkering on a major legislative package comes as Lawson-Remer has marshaled a coalition of community groups, labor unions and nonprofits to support her effort to have voters rewrite the county’s charter. —

Lucas Robinson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Apr. 2026 However, Brazil’s public health workers then marshaled broad support to defend their vaccine program. —

Jessica A.j. Rich, The Conversation, 8 Apr. 2026 Those results have included four goals for Welbeck, two clean sheets for a back line marshalled by Dunk, an assist and a recall to Germany’s national team for Gross, and almost as many minutes for Milner (342) as in his previous 13 league outings stretching back to September (345). —

Andy Naylor, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2026 With the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, York then marshaled forces to create one single telescope that could map hundreds of millions of objects in the sky — a central telescope systematically scanning the sky, and then releasing massive quantities of data publicly available to any scientist. —

Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 7 Feb. 2026 Though December 24 and 26 were federal holidays, the new Commissioner marshalled the staff at the more than 1,200 community service outlets to work those days in exchange for overtime payments. —

Shawn Tully, Fortune, 7 Feb. 2026 In 2014, Bundy and his father, Cliven, marshaled about 1,000 militiamen and other supporters to repel government agents trying to impound their cattle in Bunkerville, Nevada. —

Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, 1 Feb. 2026 Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), along with the FBI, DEA, and several other federal agencies, have been marshaled together to target major, non-border metropolitan areas as part of a stricter immigration enforcement strategy. —

Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Nov. 2025

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Her profession has turned her into a serious shoe collector, with a closet of 100 pairs neatly organized in boxes, each marked with a photo of the shoes taped to the outside.

— Jacqueline Tempera, PEOPLE, 10 May 2026
And the unfortunate reality of how the sport is organized in the modern era is that those big non-conference games are going to become less and less common.

— Ian Miller OutKick, FOXNews.com, 10 May 2026