queered

Definition of queerednext
past tense of queer
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Verb
  • Those who don’t get the job leave diminished, sometimes humiliated, and the institution absorbs the damage quietly for years.
    Paul Hardart, Fortune, 9 May 2026
  • Blue is officially fired for injecting a patient with an unapproved drug, and in a devastating twist, he is humiliated by and forced to give his badge back to Richard in front of Catherine (Debbie Allen).
    Max Gao, Variety, 8 May 2026
Verb
  • Embiid has dented them with his scoring and his playmaking.
    Jay King, New York Times, 1 May 2026
  • Most varieties of quinoa seeds are ready to harvest about 90-100 days after planting, when the seed coat is barely dented by a fingernail.
    Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • One dancer also claimed she was shamed for her weight.
    Kelsie Hoffman, CBS News, 4 May 2026
  • The Cleveland fan eventually was shamed by the internet into giving the girl the ball.
    Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 29 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Such was the scale of frustration that Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO, had to acknowledge that the rollout was botched, and the company reinstated access.
    Cody Turner, The Conversation, 1 May 2026
  • Rocchio got on base to lead off the fifth when first baseman Jonathan Aranda's botched a slow rolling grounder for an error and Steven Kwan followed with a double.
    ABC News, ABC News, 29 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Haphazardly propped on the ground with wiring and hardware exposed, the flags appear as symbols debased and emptied after centuries of misuse.
    Rachel Wetzler, Artforum, 1 Feb. 2026
  • Within this world no others exist, except as things to be debased.
    David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • According to the country’s National News Agency, Israeli strikes killed five people and wounded three in the town of Toura, just south of the Litani River.
    Michael Loria, USA Today, 9 May 2026
  • Two victims were fatally wounded Thursday night while driving in the Garfield Park neighborhood on the city’s West Side, Chicago police said.
    Deanese Williams-Harris, Chicago Tribune, 8 May 2026
Verb
  • His moves to West Ham United and Milan have badly degraded the 33-year-old’s stock.
    Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2026
  • The war has degraded Iran’s nuclear and missile programs.
    Valerie Morkevicius, The Conversation, 24 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • They are lacerated by propellers.
    Jessica Camille Aguirre, New Yorker, 2 May 2026
  • Some of the women were bleeding from their reproductive organs, while others had blood dripping from slashes on their breasts, their bodies having been lacerated with a sharp instrument.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 7 Apr. 2026
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“Queered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/queered. Accessed 15 May. 2026.

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