queered

Definition of queerednext
past tense of queer
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Verb
  • These descriptions included being physically beaten, dragged by the hair, attacked with dogs, tased, and verbally humiliated.
    Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 25 May 2026
  • Less than a week after that defeat, Arteta was rapidly thrust into his first ever managerial role at the club Guardiola had just humiliated, taking over at Arsenal and becoming the youngest manager in the league.
    Thomas Schlachter, CNN Money, 23 May 2026
Verb
  • The club had been a firm contender in the Scudetto race, but a mid-season collapse dented their hopes.
    James Horncastle, New York Times, 25 May 2026
  • Americans are increasingly health-conscious, while trade wars have dented exports, The Wall Street Journal reported.
    Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 19 May 2026
Verb
  • The former quarterback turned race-baiter, who shamed his White parents who adopted him.
    Jon Root OutKick, FOXNews.com, 23 May 2026
  • 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
Verb
  • Every time an underperforming manager missed a deadline or botched a client presentation, Marcus would swoop in, grab the metaphorical hose and put out the fire himself.
    Janine Schindler, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
  • Still, Iowa’s botched 2020 caucus, where problems with technology and organization delayed the results for more than two weeks, remained a concern among the committee members.
    Daniel C. Vock, Chicago Tribune, 27 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
  • Last week, a drone strike on a bustling market in central Sudan killed 28 people and wounded dozens more.
    Fatma Khaled, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2026
  • Witnesses to the downtown Sacramento mass shooting that left six dead and more than a dozen wounded as nightclubs closed on K Street sensed trouble in the moments before the shots were fired.
    Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 29 May 2026
Verb
  • Immune cells here degraded old and damaged red blood cells, accumulating iron from the hemoglobin for a short period.
    Kasha Patel, CNN Money, 29 May 2026
  • Some tapes had degraded in the meantime, and portions of the original data were lost.
    Federica Sgorbissa, ArsTechnica, 24 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 1 Jun. 2026.

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