returned

verb

past tense of return
1
as in restored
to bring, send, or put back to a former or proper place when I'm done reading a book, I always return it to the very shelf I got it from

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2
as in yielded
to produce as revenue this technology stock is expected to return a healthy profit

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3
as in responded
to speak or write in reaction to a question or to another reaction when I asked him to sit down to dinner, he returned that he would come when he was good and ready

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4
as in reverted
to go back to a previous and usually lower state or level vowed to do anything to keep the recovering alcoholic from returning to his dissolute ways

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Recent Examples of returned Brown briefly left the bar after seeing Parker, then returned once Parker drove away. — Tyler Quattrin, Twin Cities, 6 July 2026 Mauala continued to drive away from the scene after striking the cyclists, but returned before the responders arrived. — Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 June 2026 In a personal essay for Elle in 2019, Taylor revealed that her mom’s cancer had returned. — Sophie Dodd, PEOPLE, 6 July 2026 Houston returned home from a 5-2 trip and entered Monday an AL-best 15-10 in June. — CBS News, 30 June 2026 Murray, a freshman studying nursing at Missouri State University, had returned home for Thanksgiving at the time of the shooting. — Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 6 July 2026 But the envelope made out to Berent was returned unopened by the Department of State’s Office of General Counsel in May of this year. — Rhoda Feng, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2026 Instead, the 39-year-old Argentine GOAT returned this summer to possibly claim the trophy for a second time in a row — unseen since Brazil's back-to-back victory in 1958 and 1962 and ending on the ultimate high note. — Juliana Kim, NPR, 6 July 2026 The university returned 14 objects from its Ethnographic Museum, while two additional Benin Bronzes came from Museum Rietberg Zurich and another two from the Musée d’Ethnographie de Genève. — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 29 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for returned
  1. restored
  2. yielded
  3. responded
  4. reverted
  5. provided
  6. replied
  7. gave
  8. answered
Verb
  • The restaurant received a score of 62 and were closed until hot water was restored.
    — Mary Ella Hastings July 3, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 July 2026
  • He was restored to the starting lineup against Belgium, but was taken off midway through the second half.
    — Ashley Mowreader, NBC news, 3 July 2026
Definition of restored
Verb
  • Aroldis Chapman set the major league record for relief strikeouts after rookie Jake Bennett yielded five hits while pitching into the eighth inning for the Boston Red Sox in a 5-2 victory over the Los Angeles Angels on Friday night.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 4 July 2026
  • By the end of the 19th century, this melding of musical elements yielded the blues.
    — Ted Olson, The Conversation, 2 July 2026
Definition of yielded
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  • The Fire Department of New York responded early July 7 to reports of bricks falling from the 37-story building currently under construction on East 42nd Street, between 2nd and 3rd avenues, a heavily congested area of Manhattan.
    — N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 8 July 2026
  • The town of Foxboro responded to the Kraft Group’s lawsuit filed in June on Tuesday, stating the nearly $1 million entertainment license fee at issue was a legitimate billing for safety expenses and filing a counterclaim against the group.
    — Grace Zokovitch, Boston Herald, 8 July 2026
Definition of responded
Verb
  • The effect hasn’t mean-reverted.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 27 June 2026
  • The testing also showed that after a time, the chromium reverted back to nontoxic form.
    — Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2026
Definition of reverted
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  • Before the World Cup, Dioz provided employee uniforms for events including Super Bowl LIX and Copa America, which may have given it a leg up on the FIFA contact.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2026
  • Now in its 18th year, The Zac Foundation has provided free water safety camps to more than 25,000 kids in at-risk communities.
    — Madeline Mitchell, USA Today, 3 July 2026
Definition of provided
Verb
  • None of the series sponsors replied to Forbes’ emailed questions except Shell, which declined to comment for this story.
    — Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
  • The Charlotte Observer has reached out to attorneys in the case for comment; no one replied Thursday or Friday morning.
    — Diamy Wang, Charlotte Observer, 7 July 2026
Definition of replied
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  • Additionally, prosecutors allege Rincker gave Alvarez a 12-gauge pump action shotgun, Jamioles said.
    — Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 23 June 2026
  • Oil prices fell on the news of progress, but uncertainty over the status of the Strait of Hormuz — Iran and the US gave conflicting accounts over whether the key waterway was open over the weekend — may have slowed traffic again, The New York Times reported.
    — Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 22 June 2026
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  • The question definitively answered here is whether more schools should be emphasizing project learning over rote memorization and teaching to the test.
    — Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2026
  • The University of Hawaii deployed AI chatbots across all 10 campuses—94% student opt-in, 4,294 questions answered without human intervention in five months, 2,533 students flagged for follow-up.
    — Dr. Aviva Legatt, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
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