numbered

past tense of number

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of numbered While Spanish chroniclers numbered the population around the time of European contact to have been 1 million, anthropologists have disputed this, arguing instead for the population to have been 6–12 million. Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025 It's sold in handcrafted and numbered ceramic bottles shaped like a copper brewing kettle. Mike Snider, USA Today, 22 Oct. 2025 This case numbered among the 22 financial crimes Alex pleaded guilty to. Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE, 19 Oct. 2025 Dwindled in size from the thousands of Nebraska fans who took over this stadium in fourth quarter on Saturday, the throng still numbered hundreds outside of the gates near the Huskers’ locker room some 50 minutes after the game ended. Mitch Sherman, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025 Copies were numbered between 1 and 192 and inscribed with the reviewer’s name. Alexander Sorondo, Air Mail, 11 Oct. 2025 Most of the crowd, which numbered around 25,000, was rooting for Argentina and erupted when Lo Celso’s shot hit the back of the net. Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 11 Oct. 2025 Pricing is set at $250, and each pair is numbered out of 1,993. Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 7 Oct. 2025 By the mid-18th century, the settlement numbered around 2,000, most of Genoese origin. Miquel Ros, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for numbered
Verb
  • In most cases, voters whose ballots were tallied using Dominion technology in 2024 will have their votes counted in the 2026 midterms using the same machines.
    Bente Birkeland, NPR, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Additionally, SiriusXM’s Big 40 Countdown, on 80s on 8, and the Back in the Day Replay, on ‘90s on 9, are based on historical weekly Billboard Hot 100 charts, with other surveys counted down on 70s on 7 and Prime Country.
    Pamela Bustios, Billboard, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Other photos in the bunch included a mirror selfie with his hair pushed back courtesy of a headband, his Cloud23 hot sauce on store shelves, Animal-style fries from In-N-Out Burger (plus plenty of ketchup) and more of life’s special little moments.
    Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The range of the monster drawings included primitive people, giant spiders, serpents, snails and fantastical fish.
    Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Here's what the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration, which distributes SNAP benefits, told IndyStar about the impact on SNAP.
    Hayleigh Colombo, IndyStar, 24 Oct. 2025
  • After surviving the massacre and making a recovery that surprised even her doctors, Sophia returned home in time to celebrate her upcoming 13th birthday, a family spokesperson told CNN.
    Cindy Von Quednow, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In September, Border Patrol agents averaged roughly 279 apprehensions per day along the Southwest border — about 8,300 for the month — marking a 95% drop from the previous administration’s daily average of about 5,110 between February 2021 and December 2024, according to CBP figures.
    Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 8 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The material contained on this site is intended to inform, entertain and educate the reader and in no way represents an inducement to gamble legally or illegally or any sort of professional advice.
    Matthew Glowicki, Louisville Courier Journal, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Imagine, though, that all the books ingested by LLM training sets only contained the information on the dust jackets.
    Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The setlist mainly comprised songs from Brown Sugar and Voodoo, with a few new tracks scattered in as well.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2025
  • But what if, rather than a trickle of tech, the fountainhead itself comprised the car—a street-legal, limited-production Formula 1 model?
    Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 13 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • More than 200 people, fire engines and boats were involved in the massive emergency response effort underway on Monday morning.
    Chris Lau, CNN Money, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Police who were involved in the incident have been placed on administrative leave, following department policy.
    Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 20 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The species is specific to the North Atlantic Ocean, so estimates are not aggregated with other regional right whales, including the endangered North Pacific right whale and the Southern right whale.
    Lex Goldstein, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025
  • All distance ladder methods, when aggregated together, average out to a value of 73-74 km/s/Mpc, with the best of those methods having gotten down to a 1-2% uncertainty.
    Big Think, Big Think, 17 Oct. 2025

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“Numbered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/numbered. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.

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