molded

verb

past tense of mold
as in decomposed
to go through decomposition plants molding in the abandoned garden

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Recent Examples of molded Jumping back to today, or last year, the Engine A employs a single-piece molded upper along with an ERS midsole with cutouts that reveal a core of SuperFloat foam within. — Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 28 July 2026 The upper is made with waterproof, lightweight, and flexible GORE-TEX, and the interior midsole is molded to fit the foot and provide a bouncy feel. — Shea Simmons, PEOPLE, 11 July 2026 Some are molded into corn on the cob, celery and rhubarb shapes. — Lisa Boone, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026 The Ojai audience, having been molded over the decades by the likes of Igor Stravinsky, Pierre Boulez, Michael Tilson Thomas, and Mitsuko Uchida, is not easily fazed. — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 29 June 2026 But the scope of AI creators’ inquiry is expanding beyond the humanities and human philosophizing to deeper spiritual questions of what differentiates wisdom from intelligence or factual knowledge from how character is molded. — The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 29 June 2026 The wealthy also delighted in creative food sculptures — gelatin molded into playing cards and cheese or cream decorated with slivered almonds to look like a hedgehog. — Ava Berger, NPR, 28 June 2026 It was insight into the racing family that molded the native of Carneys Point, New Jersey, which is about two hours south of Pocono Raceway. — Devin Jackson, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 June 2026 Its members were plucked from 120,000 international applicants to be rigorously trained, molded, and manufactured into international superstars through K-pop methodology. — Elizabeth Gulino, Allure, 25 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for molded
  1. decomposed
  2. disintegrated
  3. rotted
  4. decayed
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  • Its recruit and redeploy stages require roles decomposed into explicit tasks—making what AI can augment answerable task by task.
    — Manu Khetan, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
  • Her arms and legs had been cut off and her body had significantly decomposed.
    — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 27 July 2026
Definition of decomposed
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  • The breakaway Super League succumbed to the pressure and disintegrated quickly, with nine of its founding members withdrawing in a matter of days.
    — Justin Birnbaum, Sportico.com, 30 July 2026
  • Flights in early 2025, though, ended in a series of failures including two in which the Starship upper stage disintegrated in a fiery cascade of debris across the skies visible from Florida and the Caribbean.
    — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 July 2026
Definition of disintegrated
Verb
  • The missing 14-year-old’s body rotted for weeks until it was found in the trunk of a Tesla at a Hollywood tow yard last September, severed at the limbs and stuffed into black plastic bags, according to medical examiner’s records and court filings.
    — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2026
  • While the timber has long since rotted away, the posts lined up to point directly at the rising sun during the summer solstice and the setting sun at the winter solstice — in the same way as Stonehenge.
    — Elmira Aliieva, NBC news, 18 June 2026
Definition of rotted
Verb
  • In order to have aqueous alteration there needs to be some internal heating [usually via radioactive elements] and if something forms later than everything else then there will be less heat [since many of the radioactive elements will have already decayed].
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 19 June 2026
  • But since sitting vacant, the property has decayed and listed in city property records as unoccupiable.
    — Melissa Melvin-Rodriguez, Charlotte Observer, 18 May 2026
Definition of decayed

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“Molded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/molded. Accessed 5 Aug. 2026.

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