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adjective

as in culled

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screened

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verb

past tense of screen
1
as in protected
to drive danger or attack away from attack helicopters were called in to help screen the troops from further attacks

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2
as in concealed
to keep secret or shut off from view bushes screened the swimming pool from passersby on the street

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3
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
  1. protected
  2. concealed
  3. filtered
  4. covered
  5. defended
  6. obscured
  7. shielded
  8. guarded
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
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  • The employees concealed the actions using third-party vendors and false invoices.
    — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2026
  • The machines were designed to detect non-metallic weapons, explosives and other threats concealed under layers of clothing that might evade traditional metal detectors.
    — Mark Morales, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of concealed
Verb
  • Everything gets filtered through target demographics, pitch decks, and comparative commercial comps.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Those realistic works contrast with more romantic views of farming, which some artists filtered through a bucolic lens that no doubt concealed a grimmer reality.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 7 Sep. 2026
Definition of filtered
Verb
  • Before construction began, the lot of land was flat and covered with vegetation.
    — Madeline Coleman, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
  • During the breakfast event, the walls of Sarabande’s main gallery were covered with custom artwork curated by Sarabande’s House of Bandits, a retail concept that helps sell Sarabande’s artists’ work.
    — Mary Wenthur, Footwear News, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of covered
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  • 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
Definition of defended
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  • The view offered by legal testimony, however, is still partially obscured.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 Sep. 2026
  • The eye-popping financial and human costs of post-9/11 security have obscured other consequences.
    — Michael E. Neagle, Hartford Courant, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of obscured
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  • In roughly 90% of that subset, according to the organization's founder, Fraidy Reiss, marital exemptions in state statutory-rape laws shielded the adult spouse from prosecution.
    — Kamala Thiagarajan, NPR, 4 Sep. 2026
  • The pancreas lies toward the back of the abdomen, tucked behind the stomach and shielded by loops of bowel.
    — Bryan C. Donohue, Baltimore Sun, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of shielded
Verb
  • City leaders shed a guarded, Mayberry-by-the-Sea mindset to court business, scrapping gross-receipts taxes, overhauling infrastructure and turning El Segundo’s warehouses and office parks into prized addresses for fast-growing companies.
    — Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026
  • These secrets and symbols – once jealously guarded – are now readily available to anyone interested in taking up witchcraft, thanks to an explosion of content online.
    — Chelsea Bailey, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of guarded

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“Screened.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/screened. Accessed 12 Sep. 2026.

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