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verb

past tense of repair

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Recent Examples of repaired
Adjective
The traditional lacquer and metal powders used to repair dishes are not certified as food-safe, so repaired items become art or decor. — Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Oct. 2026 The town will unveil the renovations next month and the improvements include a new paint job on the interior of the historic building, a repaired 19th-century chalkboard pulley system and repair of the several small holes in the roof. — Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 28 Aug. 2026 Volunteers painted and repaired bleachers, replaced the chain-link fence in the outfield with a wooden one and painted the dugouts. — Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2026 That can mean fewer repaired roofs, fewer modernized science laboratories, fewer accessible entrances and elevators, fewer upgraded heating and cooling systems, fewer lead and asbestos remediation projects and fewer safety improvements. — Angel Gutierrez, Chicago Tribune, 3 Aug. 2026 After a fracture, the body moves through overlapping stages of repair that include inflammation, formation of new tissue and, later, remodeling of the repaired area. — Priya Bhardwaj, The Conversation, 22 June 2026 To help prevent future settling, monitor the area weekly and add 1/2 inch or less of your soil mix as a top dressing to the repaired area. — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 16 June 2026 Also, in a game that requires the quick twitch of athleticism, Kobe Bryant, post-surgically repaired Achilles, never looked the same while languishing on a Lakers team that never won more than 27 games in his final three years. — Candace Buckner, New York Times, 14 May 2026 Black Crowes recently appeared on Rolling Stone’s Nashville Now podcast, during which Robinson claimed that his repaired relationship with Rich lit the way for Liam Gallagher and Noel Gallagher to do the same in 2025. — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 18 Mar. 2026
Verb
That’s even if Qatar’s damages are fully repaired from the ongoing Iran war. — Jordan Blum, Fortune, 10 Nov. 2026 The commissioners agreed not to release the bond until all county roadways are inspected and any damage repaired. — Jim Masters, Chicago Tribune, 10 Nov. 2026 The lighting of King’s face was only repaired following a Washington Post inquiry to the Park Service in early October. — Joe Heim, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2026 Among other efforts, the museum recently broke ground on Wonder Works, an auxiliary building where exhibits can be both created and repaired for the museum. — Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 7 Nov. 2026 If your garden art is special, the winter is a good time to get things repaired, repainted, and ready for spring. — Kathy Barnes, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Oct. 2026 Having your gutter system inspected and repaired before winter will also reduce the risk of ice dams forming inside the gutters. — Timothy Dale, The Spruce, 28 Oct. 2026 Believed to be constructed during the Hasmonean period, it was repaired and reused through successive eras, including the Roman, Byzantine, Umayyad, Crusader, Mamluk and Ottoman periods. — Michele Chabin, Sun Sentinel, 27 Oct. 2026 Broken and forlorn, she’s once again isolated…till Wicker Husband reappears—repaired and forgiving. — Valerie Monroe, Allure, 23 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for repaired
Adjective
  • Ellis lives on a fixed income, and her rent is just over $1,600 a month.
    — Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2026
  • Its four fixed radar arrays are designed to improve the ship’s ability to detect and track aircraft, cruise missiles, and ballistic missile threats.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 3 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • For voice recognition specifically, voice data is not stored for later upload when the TV is offline and is not transmitted when the connection is restored.
    — John Higgins, The Verge, 11 Nov. 2026
  • According to the authorities, the jar will be cleaned and restored before being put on public display.
    — Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 9 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • Veterans Park will see two tennis courts fully rebuilt and its basketball courts replaced.
    — Steve Zalusky, Chicago Tribune, 2 Nov. 2026
  • After a three-year closure following a fire, owners Don and Eva Lo rebuilt the original building (once a KFC) into a shiny new space.
    — Allecia Vermillion, Bon Appetit Magazine, 2 Nov. 2026
Adjective
  • Meanwhile, there are AI safety researchers who fear that portraying such incidents as easily remedied security failures gives political cover to those who want AI development to proceed unchecked.
    — Harry Booth, Time, 20 Oct. 2026
  • That the mandamus order requires the FCC to abandon its deliberation process is itself an injury that cannot be remedied after the fact.
    — Jack Birle, The Washington Examiner, 14 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Read More on News But the promotion of white poppies has revived a longstanding disagreement over whether alternative symbols broaden remembrance or undermine the traditional red poppy.
    — Rich Percival, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Nov. 2026
  • After the original Bay Theatre closed in 1978, the Pacific Palisades went roughly 40 years without a movie theater of its own, until Caruso revived the name as part of Palisades Village in 2018.
    — Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 10 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • From his emergence in the mid-1950s until his passing in 2018, Taylor not only disassembled jazz and reconstructed it in his own style, but also found ways to make the world listen.
    — Levi Dayan, Pitchfork, 3 Nov. 2026
  • Does limited roster turnover the season following a championship give a team a leg up over others that were reconstructed year over year?
    — Kyle Wagner, New York Daily News, 2 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • Physicists have now recreated this situation in the laboratory, building a three-component quantum system that displays competing magnetic correlations.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 8 Nov. 2026
  • The Draken’s maiden voyage took place in 2012, and a crew of 100 rowers successfully recreated the Vikings’ transatlantic crossing from Norway to Newfoundland only four years later.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 6 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • Look at recent commit activity, how quickly security issues get patched, and how many active maintainers there are.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 5 Nov. 2026
  • Microsoft had already patched the vulnerability that BlackLotus exploited in 2022.
    — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 3 Nov. 2026

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“Repaired.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/repaired. Accessed 13 Nov. 2026.

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