quested

past tense of quest

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Recent Examples of quested The band parted ways in 1996, primarily citing burnout, and Lindberg side-quested with an array of extreme-music voyagers including Lock Up, Disfear, Skitsystem, and the Great Deceiver. Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 16 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for quested
Verb
  • Police say two men in a four-door black Cadillac displayed a handgun and demanded an arrow key, which opens collection boxes.
    Tammy Mutasa, CBS News, 31 July 2026
  • The signals were there—not in a single test result or a moment that clearly demanded action, but in patterns unfolding over time.
    Guy Leitersdorf, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
Verb
  • Prosecutor Shanan Buckingham sought in an opening statement last week to keep jurors' focus on the defendant, not her doctors.
    ABC News, ABC News, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Militaries often run command and control operations away from the frontlines; enemies have sought to disrupt those communications through jamming and, in the past few decades, cyberattacks.
    David Goldman, CNN Money, 3 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • City Directors Kathy Webb and Capi Peck requested the proposal to establish the six-month moratorium earlier this summer.
    Joseph Flaherty, Arkansas Online, 4 Aug. 2026
  • The school district and developer have requested the village rezone the property to a multiple unit dwelling district.
    Linda Girardi, Chicago Tribune, 3 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Stable rules are needed to support capital formation, especially at the scale required by frontier AI development.
    Paulo Carvão, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
  • Under Assembly Bill 481, law enforcement agencies are required to obtain approval prior to the purchase or use of military equipment, along with an annual report of how the technology has been deployed in the previous year.
    Jennah Pendleton, Sacbee.com, 1 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • After 16 years working in media, Ellner changed gears and pursued a degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) at the University of Westminster in London.
    Kati Chitrakorn, CNN Money, 4 Aug. 2026
  • He was drafted at 18 and, after the war, pursued singing at the American Theatre Wing—an education funded by the GI Bill.
    Eleni N. Gage, Architectural Digest, 3 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Last week, when asked about the health of Wood and CJ Abrams, manager Blake Butera had said that both were playing at close to 100 percent.
    Spencer Nusbaum, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Filming a scene in which Isaiah humiliates Cam, Withers asked Wayans to crack jokes about Kionte’s death — the defining event of Withers’ life, and his lowest point.
    Daniel D'Addario, Variety, 4 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Unless Washington provides another naval destroyer, he will be forced to choose defense of the United States over Israel, the report claimed, as the Iran war has put a strain on Washington’s military arsenal.
    Emily Hallas, The Washington Examiner, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Echoing Turkey’s justifications for its contentious S-400 acquisition completed the year before, which led a ban from the F-35 program and CAATSA sanctions slapped on Ankara, Iraqi officials claimed America offered no viable alternative.
    Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026

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“Quested.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quested. Accessed 8 Aug. 2026.

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