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ridged

verb

past tense of ridge
as in banked

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  1. banked
  2. drifted
  3. clumped
Verb
  • Shortly after leaving Boston, American Airlines Flight 11 to Los Angeles banked south near Albany and raced down the Hudson River Valley.
    — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 6 Sep. 2026
  • The temperature was in the teens, and the streets were banked with ice.
    — Emily Witt, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of banked
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  • Unfortunately, over the decades, the program has drifted wildly off course.
    — Christina Smith, Baltimore Sun, 24 Sep. 2026
  • But six months later, almost no one was using it, and the model’s outputs had drifted away from the business it was built to serve.
    — Hiromi Nakatani, Forbes.com, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of drifted
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  • With all those stars clumped together, even fainter globular clusters will typically be easier to spot than the smaller variety.
    — Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 21 Aug. 2026
  • The heroine’s eyes are filled with yearning, her eyelashes glistening and ever-so-perfectly clumped?
    — Jeanne Ballion, Vogue, 5 July 2026
Definition of clumped
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“Ridged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ridged. Accessed 27 Sep. 2026.

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