mellowed

past tense of mellow

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mellowed
Verb
  • Add bell pepper, onion, scallions; cook, stirring occasionally, until softened, about 4 minutes.
    Amanda Stanfield, Southern Living, 8 Nov. 2025
  • But that’s also true of every Democrat who won on Tuesday — including Mamdani himself, who has softened some of his stances on policing including past calls to defund the NYPD and build no new jails.
    Samantha Riedel, Them., 6 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Ahuja noted that institutional infrastructure for bitcoin—custodians, liquidity providers, and banks—has matured significantly over the past several years, creating greater stability.
    Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Kevin McCallister is back, but his hijinks have matured.
    Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • King invented The Network at a time when people were still processing the toxic relationship between mass entertainment and mind control, and while the thrust of his story may not have aged a day, the medium is the message, and that medium has changed.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 11 Nov. 2025
  • Fonseca reportedly shared two children with Jackson, who were aged 1 and 4 in June 1993, per KTVU and CBS News.
    Liam Quinn, PEOPLE, 11 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • These delicate fruits are picked before they're fully ripened, which means that the right storage methods are key to coax the best flavor and quality out of them.
    Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 28 Sep. 2025
  • In the nose is pineapple and sun-ripened mango.
    Brad Japhe, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • But as the race progressed, Mamdani’s natural charm, catchy social media videos and populist economic platform energized voters in the notoriously expensive city.
    Sydney Lake, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Additionally, center Motiejus Krivas had some juice entering last season but dealt with a foot injury in the preseason that got worse as the season progressed and ultimately resulted in him being shut down in December.
    Sam Vecenie, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Though George Washington and the press started off amicably, their relationship grew more adversarial once journalists began criticizing the nation’s first president.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Brazil’s President Lula da Silva Host nation Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, affectionately known as Lula, has used his second term as president to push ahead with climate action and slow the deforestation that grew to alarming rates under his predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro.
    Jeff Young, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2025
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“Mellowed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mellowed. Accessed 16 Nov. 2025.

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