queered

Definition of queerednext
past tense of queer
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Verb
  • You can be humiliated, and won’t that be awful?
    Brent Lang, Variety, 19 May 2026
  • 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
Verb
  • The war has dented these pillars.
    Daniel Benaim, Time, 18 May 2026
  • Their mother’s forehead had also hit the windshield and been dented, a detail his sister conveniently leaves out.
    Weike Wang, New Yorker, 17 May 2026
Verb
  • Others felt her comments oversimplified a complex issue and unfairly shamed Black women who choose to wear wigs and weaves.
    Annie Blay-Tettey, Allure, 14 May 2026
  • One dancer also claimed she was shamed for her weight.
    Kelsie Hoffman, CBS News, 4 May 2026
Verb
  • Attorneys for Idaho’s death row inmates raised similar concerns in 2024, when the state planned to take a second try at executing Thomas Creech after the first attempt was botched.
    ABC News, ABC News, 20 May 2026
  • Disney has, for the most part, completely botched Star Wars.
    Zach Dean OutKick, FOXNews.com, 15 May 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
  • The number of Ukrainian civilian casualties verified by the United Nations increased by 21% in the first four months of this year, compared with the same period last year, with 815 civilians killed and 4,174 wounded.
    Dan Bashakov, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2026
  • In Chicago, one police officer was killed and another seriously wounded during a shooting April 25 at Endeavor Health Swedish Hospital.
    Jim Woods, Chicago Tribune, 22 May 2026
Verb
  • Soundcore says the system can enhance and restore up to 65% of the signal typically degraded during wireless transmission via Bluetooth.
    Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
  • The system dynamically reroutes mission plans, responds to unexpected battlefield conditions, avoids obstacles, and executes tasks in environments where communications may be degraded.
    Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 20 May 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 24 May. 2026.

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