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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Example Sentences

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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
  • Many social media users suggested Pearman may have missed the point of the somber experience of visiting a living memorial where one of history’s greatest atrocities occurred.
    — Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 25 Sep. 2026
  • Earlier reports suggested that anywhere from five to seven actors could screen test, while other estimates put the number in the teens.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 25 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • For the purposes of comparison, the CBO presented another, albeit fantastical, scenario where the debt-to-GDP ratio somehow stays flat at its current level of 101%.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2026
  • For its spring 2027 fashion show on Tuesday, Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons presented a collection dedicated entirely to skirts.
    — Christina Holevas, Vogue, 26 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Sure, the dine-in ambiance has been sacrificed; but the menu here is as delightful and exquisite as ever.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Sep. 2026
  • After being sacrificed to second on a Graham Pauley bunt, Conine would score on a Jakob Marsee line-drive hit up the middle.
    — Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 23 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
  • The parties’ local branches instead proposed that future Holocaust commemorations should be kept at the town’s memorial site at its northern cemetery, German media report.
    — Sophie Tanno, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2026
  • To break the chains of infections stemming from contaminated needles, Soqo has proposed supplying thousands of sterile needles and syringes to communities of methamphetamine users.
    — David Cox, NPR, 26 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 27 Sep. 2026.

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