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prostrated

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verb

past tense of prostrate
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Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for prostrated
Adjective
  • The Royals made a lot of weak contact, which resulted in a mix of groundouts.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Last week, a weaker-than-expected jobs report added to expectations of an imminent rate cut by the central bank.
    Chloe Taylor, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The problem is that what gets cut isn’t always cosmetic, and sometimes the very safeguards designed to block harmful outputs, such as hate speech or criminal instructions, are weakened or lost.
    Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Meanwhile, the latest jobs report confirmed that the labor market weakened sharply over the spring and summer and that sectors most affected by tariffs have seen the biggest losses.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Before recess, the lower chamber was paralyzed over a standoff regarding the Epstein files, when the House Rules Committee failed to tee up any bills for floor votes as the members disagreed over the Epstein files issue.
    Lauren Peller, ABC News, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The climate groups had sued the EPA, Zeldin, and Citibank—which was holding the grant money on behalf of the agency—saying the freeze had paralyzed their operations.
    Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Billing engineers were overwhelmed by manual updates, especially for enterprise contracts that spanned multiple clouds and organizational units.
    Scott Woody, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • And even before the storm made landfall, the levees protecting New Orleans began to fail, overwhelmed by heavy rain and massive storm surges.
    Reena Advani, NPR, 1 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Report downed power lines to the police.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Defending forces downed or suppressed 430 drones and 21 missiles, the air force said.
    David Brennan, ABC News, 3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The feeble report all but confirms a Fed interest rate cut later this month and raises at least the possibility of a half point – rather than a typical quarter point - reduction, Saunders said.
    Paul Davidson, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The Valkyries have sold out each of their 18 home games this season, 18,064 packing out Chase Center regardless of how mighty or feeble the opposition is.
    Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 31 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The sheer scale of Hosoda’s success may have softened his storytelling instincts, even if the aesthetics are occasionally remarkable.
    Adam Solomons, IndieWire, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Contemporary forms and sleek materials are softened with touches of warmth, organic textures, and colorful accents for interiors that feel modern but never cold.
    Elizabeth Stamp, Architectural Digest, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Tony and Ziva race to the scene, finding the place crippled by a power outage followed by a ransom request for 115 million Euros.
    Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The last time active-duty military was sent to Chicago against the wishes of local officials was on July 4, 1894, according to the archives of the Chicago Tribune, when a labor dispute at a Pullman factory crippled the nation’s rail industry and resulted in days of rioting.
    Andy Rose, CNN Money, 3 Sep. 2025
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“Prostrated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prostrated. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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