mustered

past tense of muster

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of mustered The Chicago offense mustered just three hits in the game, and the Padres had three homers. — Outkick, FOXNews.com, 30 Sep. 2026 The Chiefs mustered four sacks in their opener but were blanked last week against the Colts, so Steve Spagnuolo will want Willis in as many obvious passing situations as possible. — Kansas City Star, 24 Sep. 2026 Chicago mustered only one hit in 18 at-bats with runners in scoring position. — Miami Herald, 23 Sep. 2026 On a weekend in the NFL that featured record scoring numbers across the league, the Broncos mustered their lowest scoring output in a regular-season road game since at 41-10 loss to Baltimore in Week 9 of the 2024 season. — Nick Kosmider, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026 Pete Alonso pulled the Orioles within a run with a two-run homer in the fifth, but that was all Baltimore mustered. — ABC News, 8 Sep. 2026 All his administration mustered was a late, failed effort in the summer of 2020 to remove 12,000 troops from Germany. — Jennifer Kavanagh, Foreign Affairs, 28 Aug. 2026 Seattle, which opened a nine-game trip against three teams currently in playoff position, has mustered only five runs during the losing streak and nine in the past seven games. — Cbs New York Team, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2026 Within two days, workers were mustered and the presses were readied. — Colleen Barry, Fortune, 11 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mustered
Verb
  • Area cyclists have mobilized in recent months, holding rallies and organizing a petition that now has more than 5,000 signatures.
    — Rick Maese, Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2026
  • There was steep erosion at Gilgo Beach, where the Army Corps of Engineers was already mobilized for sand replenishment.
    — Jennifer McLogan, CBS News, 28 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • For example, the person cannot change residence or travel to another municipality or province without authorization and must appear before the court when summoned.
    — Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Reactionary beliefs and conspiratorial thinking are thus summoned out of these hipsters like a cobra from a basket.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The rankings considered four factors which comprised the districts’ student racial diversity index, parent/student surveys on culture and diversity, the percent of economically disadvantaged students and gender diversity.
    — Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 30 Sep. 2026
  • Home Ministry official Makhzan Mahyuddin was quoted by national Bernama news agency as saying the returnees comprised 1,370 men, 79 women, 20 boys and seven girls, aged between eight and 60.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 29 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Zhang was one of more than 50 students from China, Singapore, Britain and Australia attending a camp in Beijing organized by the year-old AI learning platform Xinya AI.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2026
  • The nearby Jefferson drill site, which Redeemer Community Partnership also organized against, elected to shut down in 2018 after the city ordered it to implement stronger health protections.
    — Blanca Begert, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Becerra said that plan contained loopholes that would amount to major tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires.
    — Ben Paviour, Sacbee.com, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Dry cat food contained roughly three times more lead than wet or air-dried products.
    — Sandee LaMotte, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The book marshalled substantial scientific evidence, and reinforced the intuitions of parents dismayed by their phone-addled children.
    — Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2026
  • No country has marshaled those efforts like China, where the government sees Tibet, and its Himalayan borderlands, as critical to its national and energy security.
    — Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Dak Prescott then orchestrated an 11-play, 74-yard drive that included a fourth down conversion and capped it with the throw to Lamb to give the Cowboys the victory.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 5 Oct. 2026
  • South Korean local media further reported that the oil recovery project was not included in the agreements reached between Seoul and Washington, citing the country’s industry ministry.
    — Jenny Lee, CNBC, 5 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The officer moved a safe distance away and ordered Cruz Linares to drop the knife.
    — Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Oct. 2026
  • Israel’s agencies and transportation minister have traded blame over who was responsible for screening the flight, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered a review of aviation security.
    — Melanie Lidman, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2026

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

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