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verb

past tense of report

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Recent Examples of reported
Adjective
The death toll is growing — with more than 50 deaths attributed to the storm in Jamaica, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic — as authorities continued to verify reported deaths. Gabe Hauari, USA Today, 31 Oct. 2025 The reported killing of Mazzherin is the latest in a string of assassinations of Russian figures inside their own territory. Catherine Nicholls, CNN Money, 29 Oct. 2025 Then there’s the reported fact that Ellison thought Sheridan’s budgets needed to come down, with Lioness and 1923 costing up to $20 million per episode. Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 27 Oct. 2025 While her return is still several months away according to the reported timeline, fans eagerly anticipate her comeback. Andrew Ravens‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025 Since then, some services appear to be recovering with fewer reported issues. PC Magazine, 21 Oct. 2025 To date, there are no reported cases of CWD infections in people. Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 24 Sep. 2025 Both men and women over age 61 had higher rates of reading compared to lower age groups from 2003 to 2023; 21% of women ages 41 to 50 and 51 to 60 reported reading for fun, while that number jumped to 41% for women 61 and over. Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 16 Sep. 2025 Their reported split comes after PEOPLE exclusively revealed on July 9 that Natasha was departing her role at Kensington Palace after 15 years of service, to set up her own private consultancy firm. Latoya Gayle, PEOPLE, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
Crash reported on eastbound I-70 There has been a crash on I-70 between Blue Ridge Cut Off/Exit 9 and Sterling Avenue/Exit 10. Kansas City Star, 6 Nov. 2025 Axon reported an earnings miss Tuesday night as the company dealt with new tariffs. Julie Coleman, CNBC, 6 Nov. 2025 The recent floods in central Vietnam killed at least 13 people, inundated over 116,000 houses and 5,000 hectares of crops, according to the government’s disaster agency, reported by Reuters. Helen Regan, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2025 Still, the company reported a $110 million net loss for that same period, due in large part to spending of $90 million on research and development, approaching the $107 million spent on R&D for all of 2024. Sydney Lake, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2025 Peskov replied that the Kremlin was assessing whether preparations for nuclear tests were necessary rather than actually beginning them, Tass reported. Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2025 In August it was reported that reading for pleasure has declined by 40 percent over the last 20 years. Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 2025 The queen mother died last week at the age of 93 after years battling illnesses, Reuters reported. Michael Cappetta, Travel + Leisure, 30 Oct. 2025 Roy Ahmaogak mentioned seeing the gray whales (which aren't often hunted, due to being unappetizing) in passing to an employee of the borough, who then reported the whales to a biologist. Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for reported
Adjective
  • Traditionally, one of the key justifications for teamwork has been its psychological benefits—the energy that comes from collaboration, the reduced stress of shared responsibility, the excitement of building on each other’s ideas.
    François Candelon, Fortune, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Still, plenty of opportunities for shared listening remained.
    Jonathan Garrett, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • What are the criteria for being described as this sexy?
    Choire Sicha, CNN Money, 4 Nov. 2025
  • In the early 2010s, Courtois was part of the team that discovered and described the Laniakea supercluster of galaxies to which our Milky Way belongs.
    Caroline Carlson, Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Mitchell played just 24 offensive snaps over the last four games and recorded two catches for 15 yards on four targets.
    James Boyd, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Draymond Green grabbed 10 rebounds but recorded just a single assist.
    Ben Verbrugge, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • According to Philly Voice, tensions came to a head in 1993, when Stanfa's men shot and injured Merlino and killed his reputed capo, Michael Ciancaglini.
    Jordana Comiter, PEOPLE, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Smith, the reputed leader of Miami’s John Doe gang, had been sentenced to death after being convicted of murdering four people in Liberty City in the 1990s.
    Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 25 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Thirty-two people faced charges ranging from theft and murder to witchcraft, Claire Kehily, councillor for Maidstone Borough Council, told CNN.
    James Frater, CNN Money, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Local resident Lee Needham also told the BBC that the crash site was close to houses, train tracks, industrial units and electrical towers.
    Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 31 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • San Diego County jails have logged more than 3,300 bookings on low-level drug and theft charges since a new state law, Proposition 36, took effect and turned what had been misdemeanor crimes into felonies.
    Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Nov. 2025
  • At one point earlier this summer, Grow a Garden accounted for more than two-thirds of the ~30 million players logged into Roblox.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • She was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame with The Grateful Dead in 1994 and appeared with the band in films including The Grateful Dead Movie (1977) and Sunshine Daydream (2013), which chronicled an August 1972 concert in Oregon.
    Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 3 Nov. 2025
  • The latter choice premiered in the pop superstar’s 2020 Netflix documentary, Miss Americana, which chronicled Swift’s decision to begin speaking out about politics following several years of silence on the matter.
    Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 31 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The judge also noted she had not previously been told a mechanic had worked on the car, and also the government has given at least two different accounts of who approved the car’s removal to Maine.
    Omar Jimenez, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2025
  • As Morosi noted, a move with the Phillies almost makes too much sense.
    Andrew Wright, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2025

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“Reported.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reported. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.

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