Thesaurus results for PASSED (FOR)

passed (for)

verb

past tense of pass (for)

as in pretended

to present a false appearance of in public they pass for being a loving couple, but in reality they are only friends

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Police later determined that Bianchi and Buono often pretended to be off-duty police officers to lure their victims.

— Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2026
The wild videos of Daejon Love, the 35-year-old man who pretended to be a 49ers receiver.

— Jacob Robinson, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of pretended

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Because the robotic arm was meant to work in zero gravity, a room that simulated a weightless environment was built to test it.

— Joanna Goodrich, IEEE Spectrum, 2 Sep. 2026
Astronomers simulated four Milky Way-sized galaxies without any dark matter clumps, then peppered them with roughly 15,000 stellar streams.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of simulated

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His statement did not admit any guilt on the part of the franchise — which Silver assumed could be because there are other investigations into the Clippers that don’t involve the NBA.

— Brian Mahoney, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2026
Many assumed something like this was coming and built so the specific shift wouldn’t matter.

— Dimitri Akhrin, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of assumed

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In the year that followed, Menin’s group worked to put on public art shows and concerts in downtown neighborhoods, and offer discounts downtown businesses.

— Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 11 Sep. 2026
That humanizes our experience because there’s a lot of pressure put on moms to be superwomen.

— Gail Mitchell, Billboard, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of put on

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Organizations must determine which systems are affected, understand the business consequences of remediation, and test and deploy fixes without disrupting critical operations.

— Shane Buckley, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026
Those wearing face coverings for religious, health, medical or work reasons or another legitimate purpose will not be affected by the ban.

— Will Barker, TheWeek, 15 Sep. 2026

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