mellowed

past tense of mellow

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for mellowed
Verb
  • Serve immediately or cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate until bottom layer has softened slightly, about 4 hours.
    Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 27 Sep. 2025
  • As earnings growth softened — and valuations didn't — foreign investors exited India in favor of other emerging markets such as China and South Korea.
    Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 25 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The researchers suggest the specimen is an adult that had not yet fully matured -- about 19 years old, based on its bone microstructure.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 24 Sep. 2025
  • As South Florida’s visual arts community has matured, so has global recognition of our artists.
    Jane Wooldridge, Miami Herald, 19 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • But six of the top eight players projected to get the most minutes this season are also aged 29 or older.
    Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 30 Sep. 2025
  • As those deals aged—and some of those same operators dramatically scaled back their ambitions—the market re-set its expectations for those tie-ups moving forward.
    Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 29 Sep. 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
  • Which brings me to the question of why this all progressed from a snowball fight to an authoritarian avalanche at such lightning speed?
    Merrill Markoe, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Jinnies progressed to competitive cheerleading on the collegiate level at Orange Coast College, where his squad was undefeated.
    Luke Chinman, PEOPLE, 22 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In this atmosphere, microschools blossomed as a reinvention of the one-room schoolhouse that allowed one educator to teach a small group of students.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2025
  • This early passion blossomed into a musical career fueled by his desire to speak his truth using songs as his avenue.
    Essence, Essence, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Over the same period, Democratic registration grew by about 38,000 voters, or roughly 3%.
    Samantha-Jo Roth, The Washington Examiner, 25 Sep. 2025
  • With RoboBallet, the complexity of computation also grew with the complexity of the system, but at a far slower rate.
    Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 25 Sep. 2025
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“Mellowed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mellowed. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.

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