ranged

past tense of range
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as in varied
to occur within a continuous range of variation the color of Florida grapefruit can range anywhere from pale pink to ruby red

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Recent Examples of ranged His photographs of Sting graced the cover of the Police’s landmark 1983 Synchronicity album, while other subjects ranged from Robert Rauschenberg to Nancy Reagan. News Desk, Artforum, 12 June 2026 Charges ranged from assault on a cop to criminal possession of a knife to reckless endangerment, while 10 officers sustained injuries. New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 12 June 2026 The victims ranged from teenagers to one person in their 60s. ABC News, 12 June 2026 Green Bay’s odds of winning those two Chicago games and the Cleveland game in the final minutes ranged between 97-99%. Rob Reischel, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026 The mass shooting following the 2024 Super Bowl rally left one woman killed, Lisa Lopez-Galvan, and more than 20 people were shot, including nine children, whose ages ranged from 6 to 15. Ben Wheeler june 12, Kansas City Star, 12 June 2026 That figure hasn’t ranged so high since 2011, when the nation was recovering from the 2008 financial crisis. Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 12 June 2026 According to the New York Police Department, 56 people were taken into custody for charges that ranged from assault to disorderly conduct. CBS News, 11 June 2026 The interviewees ranged in age from 3 to 90 years old, with some conversations with Gobel having been short as 10 minutes and others over 90 minutes. David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ranged
Verb
  • Those encounters resulted in 50 arrests, including 16 classified as immigration arrests, placing Miami Springs among the most active municipalities in Florida participating in the program despite its relatively small population.
    Verónica Egui Brito, Miami Herald, 10 June 2026
  • While Smith-Wade received some safety snaps last season, he’s always been classified as a cornerback.
    Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 10 June 2026
Verb
  • There, buffalo roamed free within the ancient ruins of Magna Graecia in the low, alluvial plains just outside of Naples.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 June 2026
  • Other lines of circumstantial evidence also suggest shockingly large objects roamed the early epochs of our solar system.
    Jenna Ahart, Scientific American, 9 June 2026
Verb
  • For identical goods in the same store, prices varied by as much as 23% between shoppers.
    Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 10 June 2026
  • Deputies said the charges varied between the two but included violations of the Water Code and Fish and Game Codes while growing cannabis.
    Sean Campbell, Sacbee.com, 9 June 2026
Verb
  • There was Asher Durand, master of the winsome glade; John Frederick Kensett, poet of still waters; and, above all, Thomas Cole, the philosopher-king of landscape, with whom an 18-year-old Church arranged to study privately.
    Susan Tallman, The Atlantic, 13 June 2026
  • This meal was arranged like weather.
    Teresa Mull, FOXNews.com, 13 June 2026
Verb
  • The only project ranked lower is Queen Cleopatra, which became controversial over its casting of a Black actress as Cleopatra and ended up with a 3% audience score.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
  • Global temperature records could be challenged again 2024 ranked as the planet’s warmest year on record, following the last El Nino event, which emerged in mid-2023 and persisted through spring 2024, according to NOAA.
    Daniel Peck, ABC News, 11 June 2026
Verb
  • Red-Bodied Dog Tick Has your idiotic dog wandered onto a bucolic patch of grass that hasn’t been freshly treated with toxins?
    Jay Ruttenberg, New Yorker, 8 June 2026
  • Baez’s sister described her brother as a free spirit who wandered up and down the East Coast, from Florida to his home state of Massachusetts, where his two children live with their mother.
    Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 3 June 2026
Verb
  • Nichols organized a day where 26 volunteers came together to replace American tattered and torn flags with brand new ones, including David and Sue Hornbrook's torn flag.
    Charlie Lapastora, CBS News, 15 June 2026
  • The demonstration, which had been previously organized by a hodgepodge of activist groups after weeks of negotiations with local authorities, was otherwise peaceful — with environmentalists, women’s rights advocates, supporters of Palestinians and foes of imperialism, fascism and capitalism.
    Jamey Keaten, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2026
Verb
  • Mosquitoes are grouped for testing according to species, collection site and date.
    Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 12 June 2026
  • Officers and enlisted men grouped around nearest radios.
    Orlando Sentinel Staff, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 June 2026

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