REMINISCED Synonyms: 70 Similar and Opposite Words

reminisced

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past tense of reminisce

as in remembered

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as in pondered

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Head coach Chris DeMarco remembered people stretching to stay loose while staff members did push-ups to pass the time.

— Fiifi Frimpong, New York Daily News, 17 July 2026
In the interview, shared online on July 10, Williams remembered what made Sanford and Son such a classic.

— Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 17 July 2026

Definition of remembered

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Weston McKennie slumped in a chair, mind spinning, stare blank, while Matt Freese wandered and Tim Ream pondered the end.

— Henry Bushnell, New York Times, 7 July 2026
Last week began in a slump as investors pondered whether memory chip maker Micron would show sustained demand in its earnings report.

— Megan Poinski, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026

Definition of pondered

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Another witness, Jacy Lin, recalled being at the festival’s salsa stage and seeing everyone suddenly run toward it before police arrived, the music stopped and people began leaving.

— Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 12 July 2026
Ford was recalled in early August after Edwin Encarnacion broke his wrist.

— Peter Chawaga, Forbes.com, 11 July 2026

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But Yi has ruminated on these interconnections for more than two decades, making visible (and, sometimes, odorous) the systems around us that are microscopic, impermanent, or technologically abstract, often questioning our discomfort with them.

— Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 29 May 2026
Shanahan ruminated on that topic in his news conference following the 49ers 48-27 win over the Indianapolis Colts Monday.

— Chris Biderman, Sacbee.com, 23 Dec. 2025

Definition of ruminated

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Through its characters, the book stages an argument about the virtues of various types of maps—those that are measured, those that are recollected, those that are dreamed.

— Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
But the Bruins recollected themselves, and the flow state returned on the other side of the timeout.

— Haley Sawyer, Oc Register, 2 Mar. 2026

Definition of recollected

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Nationally, 61% of the 160 metro areas Pew studied were classified as somewhat or very unaffordable for young buyers in 2024 — up from just 41% in 2019.

— Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 16 July 2026
The university’s shark lab, which has studied shark behavior and ecology for 60 years, will probably survive.

— Kori McNair, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2026

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In April, prices for residential construction materials, excluding energy, rose at their fastest pace in three years, according to government data analyzed by the National Association of Homebuilders.

— Samantha Delouya, CNN Money, 17 July 2026
When Fortune analyzed Chesky’s thread through AI-detection tool Pangram, the system flagged it as 100% AI-generated.

— Rachel Ventresca, Fortune, 16 July 2026

Definition of analyzed

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Yolo Superior Court jurors deliberated for weeks at Dominguez’s initial 2025 trial in the stabbings that paralyzed Davis before acquitting him on one murder count and failing to reach a verdict on a second murder count.

— Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 14 July 2026
The jury deliberated for about six hours on Monday and eight hours on Tuesday before the mistrial was declared.

— Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 July 2026

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