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verb

past tense of screen
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as in filtered
to pass through a filter you should screen the cooking oil to remove impurities

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as in covered
to place a protective layer over screened his eyes with his hand to block the sun

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Recent Examples of screened
Adjective
The latter offers faster processing for pre-screened travelers, according to Customs and Border Protection. Nathan Diller, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2026 Pavel Mintyukov then sent the puck to Mikael Granlund, who backhanded a pass to Carlson for a one-timer that got past a screened Askarov for a 2-0 Ducks lead. Curtis Pashelka, Mercury News, 10 Apr. 2026 After establishing position at the net front, Guentzel tipped a shot from the top of the zone by Charle-Edouard D’Astous over the glove of the screened Lankinen. ABC News, 19 Mar. 2026 The Red Wings tied it with 59 seconds left in the period on Seider's shot from near the blue line that eluded a screened Hildeby. CBS News, 29 Dec. 2025
Verb
If the data are screened for students from low-income families, most of the performance gap disappears. Francesca Pinney, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2026 So far, Fjord has screened for only one day in Romania, drawing record crowds. Madeline Leung Coleman, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2026 Degeneratsiya — the former just over two hours, the latter more than six — screened at the Berlin Film Festival in 2020. Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2026 Fort Worth’s Coyote Drive-In has screened many movies over the years, but its final few will go down in history. Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Sep. 2026 Nowadays, the Bemelmans Bar overflows with tourists fresh off the bus and twentysomethings who have pre-screened it on Instagram, and has lost its old, beautiful emptiness, but doubtless the same pull that drew us draws them. Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026 The researchers, who reported their findings in PLOS Biology, also screened 124 recordings from the vast wildlife sound archive xeno-canto and identified 50 species with regular rhythmic signals. Anirban Mukhopadhyay, Scientific American, 7 Sep. 2026 The Oscar winner was presented with the honor by Maggie Gyllenhaal, who directed Burstyn in Flesh Impact, which screened after the award ceremony. Nigel Smith, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2026 To that end, his team screened the Russell 1000 for companies that have raised their dividends by at least 15% quarter over quarter in the past 12 months. Darla Mercado, Cfp®, CNBC, 4 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for screened
Verb
  • Both of those pitches have better protected his four-seam fastball, a pitch Nola has commanded much better.
    Matt Gelb, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Spacecraft are typically protected from debris impacts by some form of a Whipple shield, which has a thin outer bumper with a space between the bumper and the wall of the spacecraft.
    Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 8 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • To avoid another situation like this, ESPN should stop assuming our intentions are poor and do a better job keeping sensitive information concealed.
    Bobby Burack OutKick, FOXNews.com, 18 Sep. 2026
  • The movement’s tiny footprint became a catalyst for experimentation, giving Blancpain’s designers unusual freedom, resulting in Ladybird watches concealed within bracelets, cuffs, rings, and pendants.
    Taylor Stoddard, Robb Report, 17 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • That signal is often invisible on a résumé filtered by degree or title.
    Brittany Murrey, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026
  • The higher someone rises, the more information is filtered before reaching them.
    Julio Ottino, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Politics is covered, check; psychology, check — often, as in this Cherry Orchard, leaving little to the imagination.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Thirty minutes later, after a physician examined him, he was pronounced dead and covered with a white sheet.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 17 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Kid Cudi defended his decision to perform with his longtime friend and controversial musician, Ye (formerly known as Kanye West), after some fans and critics expressed disappointment.
    Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2026
  • Bass defended her proposal to cut the climate office amid the budget crunch, which the City Council rejected.
    Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • After engaging with the box, the user sees a line of text, often obscured in a way to mask any malicious commands.
    Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Debris from asteroid and comet impacts has obscured evidence of the planet's shrinkage.
    Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • About 30% of its gas revenue is sourced from on-site facilities that are shielded from macro cyclicality and inflation by 15- to 20-year contracts that enforce baseline take-or-pay guarantees and benefit from energy cost pass-throughs.
    Harvey Stober, CNBC, 15 Sep. 2026
  • The San Diego Association of Governments has shielded two North County cities from the strictest parts of a new law allowing for high-rise housing near transit stops.
    Lucas Robinson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • But just over six months after the death of her son, she is understandably guarded.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 16 Sep. 2026
  • As a rock star, Chrissie Hynde has always been a bit of a paradox — gnarly but cerebral, ferocious yet guarded.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 14 Sep. 2026

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“Screened.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/screened. Accessed 19 Sep. 2026.

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