Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scatted
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Set against a ’90s true-crime backdrop, the fictional character is a female serial killer who targets repeat violent offenders who escaped accountability through power, prestige, or institutional failure.—
Thomas Waller,
Footwear News,
19 Feb. 2026 -
Few Mexican restaurant chains in the United States — really, just Taco Bell — have escaped this destiny.—
Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Feb. 2026
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The 20-year-old crooned the melancholic record backed solely by a solemn piano melody.—
Larisha Paul,
Rolling Stone,
12 Jan. 2026
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On a cool December evening as raindrops polka-dotted the pavement, longtime street performer Onunze Ubaka, 72, crooned Motown classics to a virtually empty corner off the usually busy Jackson Square in the French Quarter.—
Trevor Hughes,
USA Today,
12 Dec. 2025
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The nondescript industrial buildings once hummed away largely behind the scenes, powering the various facets of our online lives.—
Sharon Goldman,
Fortune,
27 Jan. 2026
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The laser-cutting machine hummed with life.—
Jessica Ma,
Dallas Morning News,
18 Jan. 2026
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Those very words created this country and are the spark that lit every revolution in American history.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
20 Feb. 2026
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Jackson reinforced Blackness as beautiful and Black people as somebody, and that lit a fuse in people like Gant.—
Kamal Morgan,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
20 Feb. 2026
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My mother trilled vapidly over these mundane facts.—
Madhuri Vijay,
New Yorker,
16 Nov. 2025
Verb
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His brooding blue eyes are being absconded with by a Sri Lankan eBay user.—
Paul Flahive,
Austin American Statesman,
30 Jan. 2026
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Otherwise, a relationship with an AI will not be until death do us part — but until the developer has absconded with your personal information and deleted your spouse.—
Lori Andrews,
Mercury News,
29 Jan. 2026
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The tawny owl’s dark release of song quavered from the pine wood.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Fidel Castro got out of the jeep.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
21 Feb. 2026
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The other man got out and the men got into a verbal confrontation.—
Meredith Colias-Pete,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Feb. 2026
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“Scatted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scatted. Accessed 25 Feb. 2026.
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