sallied

past tense of sally

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sallied
Verb
  • However those who saw rates remaining the same jumped to 7 members, indicating a more hawkish position for the Fed and raising the ire of the current administration.
    Paul Weinstein Jr, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Intel shares jumped 33% to around $33 a share in premarket trading following news of the deal.
    John Melloy, CNBC, 18 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The second-year quarterback came up limping after he was tackled by Packers defensive lineman Kingsley Enagbare on a play that potentially could have drawn a flag for hip-drop tackle.
    Mark Kern, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Of course, Notre Dame almost got pressure from a four-man rush a second time, but Donovan Hinish got tackled on Texas A&M’s game-winning touchdown.
    Pete Sampson, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In late August, footage emerged captured by a drone slamming into the 50-year-old radio telescope.
    Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • One of the WorldView Legion satellites also captured imagery of China's ShiJian-26 satellite in June.
    Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The sheriff and her legal team have repeatedly assailed Cordell’s report, commissioning their own review by former Riverside County Superior Court Judge Burke Strunsky, who criticized Cordell’s reliance on anonymous sources and unrecorded interviews.
    Ryan Macasero, Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Staci Ibarra, another warden who left the department in May — after she was put on administrative leave in the wake of an inmate’s death — assailed a practice in which maximum security inmates had their classification downgraded.
    Perry Vandell, AZCentral.com, 30 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Ultimately, the state attorney general charged 20 state felonies against eight people alleged to have engaged in planning and training for an attack on the statehouse and a plan to kidnap lawmakers, including Whitmer.
    Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Brown was charged with misdemeanor misusing 911 — a charge one expert said is typically brought against prank callers, not those in a mental crisis.
    Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The draw for the 1994 World Cup was held there, when James Brown performed and Robin Williams mugged for the cameras with Sepp Blatter, one of entertainment’s more unlikely double acts.
    Nick Miller, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Trying to pin down what a novelist actually believes is a sure way to get trapped in a labyrinth of misreadings and fallacies.
    Jeremy Gordon, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Juno orbits Jupiter once every 33 days, and the trajectory brings the spacecraft through intense radiation belts trapped by the planet's powerful magnetic field.
    Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Captured on live television, rioters attacked the Capitol and breached the Senate floor.
    Chris Boyette, CNN Money, 14 Sep. 2025
  • In 1986, Iranian warplanes attacked Emirati oil platforms off the coast of the capital, Abu Dhabi.
    Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
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“Sallied.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sallied. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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