Thesaurus results for PARTICIPATED

participated

verb

past tense of participate

as in shared

to take a share or part eager to participate in the city's cultural life

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Recent Examples of participated There were a few families with tweens and teens, some of whom participated in kids’ club activities like scavenger hunts, whereas others relegated themselves to the set of computers in the lounge for long sessions of video games. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Sep. 2026 Four distinct types of infrastructure participated in one commercial event. — Charlotte Observer, 22 Sep. 2026 Neither player has participated in a regular-season practice to date. — Pete Sweeney, Kansas City Star, 21 Sep. 2026 We were taught by a gruff cockney called Fred Waring, who had participated in the D-Day landings in a regiment that had fought its way across Europe towards Berlin and liberated the concentration camp at Belsen. — Literary Hub, 21 Sep. 2026 Drama participated in the Euro-Latin Co-Production forum in 2022, Carolina Foundation Screenwriting Workshop, the Chalet Mauriac residency and Cinéma en Développement at the Toulouse Film Festival. — Ed Meza, Variety, 21 Sep. 2026 Fisher had participated in the legislative debate over one of his bills. — Benjamin Wofford, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026 According to her obituary, Libby also participated in volleyball, soccer and swimming. — Jenny Porter Tilley, IndyStar, 21 Sep. 2026 Officials have not released an official count of athletes, but the number could match the 12,000 that participated three years ago in the games in Hangzhou, China. — ABC News, 15 Sep. 2026

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The Buffy the Vampire Slayer star, 49, shared a sweet photo on Instagram of herself with her youngest child, Rocky James, to mark his 14th birthday.

— Gina Kalsi, PEOPLE, 21 Sep. 2026
Brown recently gave fans a first glimpse at the couple’s newest addition in an Instagram debut shared on September 17, shortly after People reported that the couple had adopted a second child.

— Lara Walsh, InStyle, 21 Sep. 2026

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The masked suspect who fatally shot a beloved barber while trying to steal his handmade Miami Cuban bracelet outside a Queens strip club ran off empty-handed, but left those who knew the victim with an unfathomable hole in their hearts.

— Rebecca White, New York Daily News, 25 Sep. 2026
The group knew that for many listeners outside Japan, this wouldn’t simply be a new single.

— Crystal Bell, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2026

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