queered

past tense of queer

Example Sentences

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Verb
  • After users online and public figures rushed to show solidarity to Miss Mexico, who many felt had been publicly humiliated, the Thai executive came out to apologize.
    Paula Soria, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
  • No woman, under any circumstance, deserves to be insulted or humiliated.
    Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Zimbabwean economist and former opposition parliamentarian, Eddie Cross, said the resolution to extend Mnangagwa’s rule had dented economic confidence.
    Tawanda Karombo, semafor.com, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Her candor hasn’t been dented—this is a woman who clearly feels and cares deeply about the world.
    Helen Mirren, Glamour, 27 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • And when placed counter to men in power, we’re shamed; just take the long-overdue imprisonment of Diddy and the public vitriol towards his female victims.
    Essence, Essence, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Kirk’s former chief of staff Mikey McCoy shamed Cohen for the comments in a post on X early Thursday morning.
    Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Meanwhile, the show has hosted plenty of controversial musical performances, such as NBC removing upside-down American flags from Rage Against the Machine’s amps in 1996 to Ashlee Simpson’s botched vocal performance in 2004.
    William Earl, Variety, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Made all the worse, that final play by Miami was botched by a mistake that led to the pickoff.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 18 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Within this world no others exist, except as things to be debased.
    David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Dogville, from 2003, is an experimental Lars von Trier film shot on a stage set in which Kidman plays a woman debased and abused by the inhabitants of a small town.
    Wendell Steavenson, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Ukraine’s First Deputy Prime Minister Mykhailo Fedorov told The Guardian that drone teams killed or wounded 18,000 Russian soldiers in September alone.
    Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Kidd died at the scene, while another man who police hadn't named Monday was wounded and taken to an area hospital for treatment.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 3 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Ancient samples, degraded over centuries, often contain fragments too small for PCR to amplify.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2025
  • In their world, which is also ours, selfhood has degraded into taste, preferences, demography, and outlays of attention and money.
    Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Catherine’s right leg was lacerated to the bone and nearly amputated by a propeller.
    Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 20 Oct. 2025
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“Queered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/queered. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.

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