proceeded (with)

verb

past tense of proceed (with)
as in resumed
to begin again or return to after an interruption we can proceed with the meeting as soon as everyone has returned from lunch

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for proceeded (with)
  1. resumed
  2. continued
  3. restarted
  4. reopened
Verb
  • Nearly 1,000 people were arrested Saturday as nationwide protests resumed, France's Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez told reporters.
    — James Cirrone , Brittany Miller, FOXNews.com, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Training resumed on October 1, after the company completed further assessments.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of resumed
Verb
  • The same was true as Democrat James Talarico's lead over Texas Senate hopeful Ken Paxton continued to grow.
    — Eve Batey, Vanity Fair, 4 Nov. 2026
  • Otherwise, Republicans have continued to win nearly every other statewide race in Georgia.
    — Sam Gringlas, NPR, 4 Nov. 2026
Definition of continued
Verb
  • Five years later, Microsoft signed a 20-year agreement to buy its power, and the plant is being restarted as the Crane Clean Energy Center.
    — Jake Rozmaryn, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2026
  • Before injection restarted, three oil division officials chosen by Strickland conducted a walkthrough of the Bayou with Halff and Citation, according to an email from Strickland.
    — Nick Bowlin, ProPublica, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of restarted
Verb
  • The natural gas facility involved in the blowout temporarily closed and later reopened at reduced capacity after being deemed safe to operate.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 2 Nov. 2026
  • The first half of the museum reopened in 2022 with eight new or reimagined galleries, the Northrop Grumman Planetarium, museum store, and the Mars Café.
    — Robert Pearlman, ArsTechnica, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of reopened
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