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verb

past tense of match

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of matched
Adjective
Put pre-matched outfits on the same hanger. — Brandi Jones, Health, 25 Feb. 2026
Verb
Reuters also matched career information or job titles for eight people against court filings, news reports, public profiles and online posts. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 30 Sep. 2026 Later in the night, Harry and Jenna Johnson matched their score, tying for the top of the leaderboard alongside Amber and Pasha. — Mckinley Franklin, HollywoodReporter, 29 Sep. 2026 Dermatologists say each device works, but only when matched to a specific concern. — Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 29 Sep. 2026 But Diaz’s narrative arc is matched by a steady dose of pontification. — Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2026 An online lottery player also matched the five winning numbers in the Powerball drawing to win $150,000. — Jeramie Bizzle, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2026 Given that her dress was so bold, Cardi and her makeup artist Erika La' Pearl matched the vibes with a glitter eye in a purply-pink color that complemented the vivid colors of the gown. — Kara Nesvig, Allure, 23 Sep. 2026 Based on conversations with her friends and activists, the regulations rarely matched up with what was happening on the ground. — Andrew Nachemson, The Dial, 22 Sep. 2026 He was matched with Palm Beach hatmaker Kai Lassen; the two first clicked over a marathon texting session, then made googly eyes at each other over coffee. — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 22 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for matched
Adjective
  • David, 27, was as stylish as his new wife in a matching white suit with a cream top and a silk green scarf draped over his shoulders.
    — Michael Nied, InStyle, 24 Sep. 2026
  • For bottoms, Levi’s and Sacai offer the Belted Wide Pants, a loose, mid-rise fit in continued selvedge indigo fabric, finished with Sacai’s specialty buttons at the belt loops and a matching denim belt.
    — Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 17 Sep. 2026
Adjective
  • Michele Reiner’s sister, Martine Singer, has opened up about the death of her sibling and director Rob Reiner, to whom her sister was married.
    — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2026
  • Liles, 44, a married father of two, worked as an officer for more than 16 years.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Its brick-and-mortar presence is complemented by a popular online store, which accounts for around 30 percent of total sales and records about 22 million visits a year.
    — Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 30 Sep. 2026
  • The aroma is complemented by hints of bergamot, sage, neroli, and musk, too.
    — Katie Decker-Jacoby, StyleCaster, 28 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Russian media also reported that Russian President Vladimir Putin observed the drills at the Chebarkul Training Ground on Friday and met foreign military attaches.
    — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 4 Oct. 2026
  • Most Read Reviews Appropriately enough for two musicians working at the cutting edge of this underground, Bowery Electric’s Martha Schwendener and Lawrence Chandler met while working at pre-fab master Andy Warhol’s Interview magazine.
    — Sadie Sartini Garner, Pitchfork, 4 Oct. 2026
Adjective
  • Vehicle-to-grid, or V2G, technology allows compatible vehicles and chargers to exchange electricity with the grid rather than simply charging the battery.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 4 Oct. 2026
  • In practice, however, the number of vehicles that are actually compatible is still very limited.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 4 Oct. 2026
Adjective
  • The family group also contained four other adult wolves, which might have been brothers and sisters, parents, or even grandparents of the mated pair.
    — Frank Glaser, Outdoor Life, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Packs may consist of a mated pair and sometimes few young pups.
    — Arricca Elin SanSone, Southern Living, 9 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • The incident closely paralleled the sequence of events that in July resulted in another group of OpenAI’s agents launching cyberattacks against the company Hugging Face.
    — Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2026
  • The data paralleled numbers in California, where during this year’s June primary about 93,500 voters had their ballots rejected because they were postmarked or arrived too late to be counted.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Abercrombie’s old mall identity was closely tied to the experience of walking in, making the space itself part of what shoppers remember about the brand.
    — Ashley Lynch, Kansas City Star, 2 Oct. 2026
  • With the score tied at one, Bryce Harper misplayed a routine fly ball to right field in the bottom of the 7th, allowing a run to score and setting up another to come in on a sacrifice fly.
    — Ian Miller OutKick, FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2026

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“Matched.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/matched. Accessed 6 Oct. 2026.

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