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past tense of release
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adjective

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Recent Examples of released
Adjective
Their name has not yet been released by officials. Amy McCarthy, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025 Plans for a fourth film, set to be released in 2011, never crystallized. Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Oct. 2025 The multi-hyphenate recently made his feature directorial debut with Rosario, a horror film starring Emeraude Toubia and David Dastmalchian that released in theaters this year. Matt Grobar, Deadline, 28 Oct. 2025 A couple of years ago, the NCAA released a study finding that 67% of college students living on campus had engaged in sports betting, 41% had bet on their school’s teams, and 35% had used a student bookmaker. Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 28 Oct. 2025 Adoption has exploded since ChatGPT was released three years ago, but so, too, have stories of humans developing harmful relationships with chatbots. Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 28 Oct. 2025 Officials at the Water Reclamation Authority are pursuing new goals after the utility was officially released last year from a pair of longstanding legal agreements that required the utility to address sewer overflows, leading to major investments across the system. Arkansas Online, 22 Oct. 2025 Hermès’ third-quarter financial results will be released Wednesday morning before market opening. Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 21 Oct. 2025 After police talked with the now-murder suspect, Niotis' mother, Foulla, was told by officers that the juvenile would be released to his father, Bramnick said. Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 21 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for released
Verb
  • The quake, centered about 43 miles east of Miyagi Prefecture, unleashed a massive tsunami with waves more than 130 feet high in some areas.
    Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
  • But Mahtomedi broke through the low block, and the Zephyrs’ first goal unleashed the floodgates.
    Andrew Cornelius, Twin Cities, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Rhamondre Stevenson continues to run hard, freed (for now) from the demons that followed his fumbling issues early in the season.
    Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Under his leadership, the project freed 40 innocent people from prison, including former NFL player Brian Banks.
    Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Millions remain far from liberated from economic pressure, and few of us feel burdened by an excess of free time.
    Arianna Huffington, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The Warsaw doctors likewise wrote about patients whose hearts failed after they were fed; when Allied soldiers liberated the concentration camps, large numbers of emaciated people died after being given high-calorie foods such as chocolate.
    Clayton Dalton, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • While this violation enrages the village’s women, the men who make up the Panchayat (village council) try and fail to cast her out of town.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Only Martin — cast as a Dickensian wretch by Bonitzer’s legion of myopic elites, but always quietly acting against type — reserves the right to determine his own worth.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 29 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Trump announced plans to impose an additional 10% tariff on Canada on Saturday over a TV ad featuring footage of former President Ronald Reagan criticizing tariffs.
    Diane Brady, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2025
  • More tenants could be announced at Everette Downs with a commercial building space and an outparcel still available, Robinson said.
    Andy Humbles, Nashville Tennessean, 27 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The original trees had to be removed in 2013 after being poisoned by Alabama fan Harvey Updyke.
    Jordy Fee-Platt, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Investigators have removed a haul of items from the camps for forensic examination as part of ongoing enquiries to identify anyone who might have assisted Phillips during his time on the run.
    Laura Sharman, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • That change is possible because California recently loosened its purification rules to allow purified wastewater to be pumped directly into a water system, instead of being stored for months in reservoirs or underground basins.
    David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Oct. 2025
  • The number of foreign residents has risen sharply in recent years, reaching a record 3 percent of the population in 2024, as Tokyo cautiously loosened visa rules for workers in key industries such as manufacturing, agriculture, and caregiving.
    Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Charlie had been abandoned and then rescued and fostered by a man in Jacksonville.
    Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
  • The news comes after a Holland America Line ship rescued two people from a sailing vessel in distress in August during a cruise from Boston to Quebec City, Canada.
    Nathan Diller, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025

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“Released.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/released. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.

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