offered

past tense of offer
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as in sacrificed
to give up as an offering to a god when fruits, flowers, or crops are offered, the offering is known as a bloodless sacrifice

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Recent Examples of offered On-site, there is a 24-hour gym, with complementary rooftop yoga offered on Saturday mornings, weather permitting. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Sep. 2026 According to the firm, the upgrade will allow existing engines to reach up to 90-95 percent of the durability benefits offered by the GTF Advantage. — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 25 Sep. 2026 The Bears are pursuing a contentious move to Indiana, where state officials have offered over $1 billion in public support to build a new stadium in the northeast city of Hammond, just on the other side of the Illinois border. — Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 25 Sep. 2026 The Madrid City Council and Madrid mayor José Luis Martínez-Almeida claimed the council and municipal services offered Abascal alternatives before the eviction, per Euronews. — Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 25 Sep. 2026 The deal included commitments from Beijing to purchase 25 million metric tons of American soybeans, while Washington offered to sell Boeing jets. — Naomi Lim, The Washington Examiner, 24 Sep. 2026 A lot like his unfathomable eternity with the Royals, a job that he somehow was offered as a 25-year-old in 1969 with scant experience. — Kansas City Star, 24 Sep. 2026 The film’s producers said the documentary has been offered to a number of distributors and cinemas in Israel, and The Guardian was looking for ways to allow the film to be seen in Gaza and the West Bank. — Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 24 Sep. 2026 The town as of Wednesday afternoon offered no projection about when service would be restored. — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 24 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for offered
Verb
  • Rocket Lab was supposed to have a satellite on standby to go up and inspect True Anomaly’s spacecraft, ready to launch on short notice once military officials gave the order.
    — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 26 June 2026
  • Additionally, prosecutors allege Rincker gave Alvarez a 12-gauge pump action shotgun, Jamioles said.
    — Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 23 June 2026
Verb
  • In another incident that gave Europe a headache, officials suggested Russia was behind a drone that breached Lithuania’s airspace earlier this month.
    — Emily Hallas, The Washington Examiner, 18 Sep. 2026
  • The volunteers could help suppress future dissent Friday’s events also suggested that hard-liners like Taeb among Iran’s leadership will be more prepared to suppress any future demonstration against the theocracy.
    — Nasser Karimi, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The writers presented two other awards prior to Saturday’s game.
    — Marc Topkin, The Orlando Sentinel, 20 Sep. 2026
  • Honoring their decades of service to the Fox Valley, each group was presented with a proclamation.
    — Tom Strong, Chicago Tribune, 20 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • That wasn’t the only time the Dolphins sacrificed points due to a penalty.
    — Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 13 Sep. 2026
  • The event, organizers said, includes health screenings, a blood drive and the reading of the names of 343 New York firefighters who sacrificed their lives to rescue others.
    — Frank Witsil, Freep.com, 10 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • McCuskey tendered his resignation to the LEC last week amid growing criticism over his handling of investigations.
    — Brenden Moore, CBS News, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Now the question for the Heat becomes whether a similar deal tendered to Nikola Jovic will require contract gymnastics of their own down the line, with that extension kicking in this season.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 22 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Lawmakers in several states have proposed restricting or even banning them.
    — Sally C. Pipes, Chicago Tribune, 20 Sep. 2026
  • Lawrence bristled at that charge, noting that he's been protesting data centers since last fall when a wave of new projects was proposed across the district and the state.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 19 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • If the team succeeds, the result could transform a technology normally associated with large laboratory instruments into a compact quantum sensor that can be carried where the threat actually is.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2026
  • The proposal laid out concrete details aimed at restoring traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, which carried about a fifth of global oil and gas shipments before the war, reviving fragile hopes for a diplomatic off-ramp to the seven-month war.
    — Sam Meredith,Anniek Bao, CNBC, 23 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Last month, Tarrant County Commissioners Court members unanimously agreed the significant slash to the November midterm voting sites proffered by Elections Administrator Clint Ludwig was too drastic.
    — Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 Aug. 2026
  • Meanwhile, more than 15,000 employees at the USDA signaled their intention to resign by accepting the offer proffered by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
    — Corinne Low, Time, 7 Aug. 2026

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“Offered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/offered. Accessed 25 Sep. 2026.

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