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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Tremble’s taunt after his second TD was already coming in for teasing by his teammates postgame, as running back Chuba Hubbard (120 rushing yards, one TD) pretended to be a reporter and asked Tremble about it.

— Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 18 Oct. 2026
Pressed — surely she’s pretended to be sick to get out of a party?

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of pretended

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Its use during the exercise simulated an attack against an opposing naval force.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026
Anthropic ran small open-weight models on real or simulated low-cost, off-brand Android TV boxes and other types of IoT hardware.

— Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of simulated

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Lukic, whose lab continues to scale up its medium-voltage unit, assumed the killer application for SSTs would be EVs.

— Alex Pasternack, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
If Cammarata is correct, then mechanistic interpretation may be more effective than many had assumed.

— Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of assumed

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Those unwanted jobs range from library boards that decide what books to purchase and put on shelves to school boards that help set education policy to village presidents to township supervisors.

— CBS News, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026
Upon entering the mock prison, the inmates underwent a strip-search and then had to put on loose-fitting smocks with no underwear.

— Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of put on

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Tall thunderstorm clouds will be affected by those changing winds and rotate.

— Jamie Ross, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2026
Attorneys for New Mexico had sought $35 billion to $40 billion, arguing that the company would only change its ways with a sum that affected its stock price.

— ABC News, ABC News, 21 Oct. 2026

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