sealed

past tense of seal

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Recent Examples of sealed State police noticed the trailer wasn't sealed and Singh indicated the seal was inside the cab. Christina Hall, Freep.com, 10 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sealed
Verb
  • But the delicious focal point will be a potluck-style neighborhood mango cookoff on the J Street Stage, featuring mangoes harvested from the backyards of 12 area neighborhoods.
    Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2026
  • The case was brought by Strawberry Growers for Fair Trade, a coalition of Florida strawberry producers, whose berries are typically harvested during the winter months.
    Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN Money, 17 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Philadelphia School District officials told CBS News Philadelphia that schools are responsible for determining how students' devices will be secured during the school day.
    Wakisha Bailey, CBS News, 24 Aug. 2026
  • Knizner secured the ball, but the winning run scored as Knizner couldn’t get his foot on the plate.
    Justice delos Santos, Mercury News, 23 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • That’s a 40% discount on a rod that, by the retailer’s own assessment, has barely been fished.
    William Jones, USA Today, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Many researchers were convinced that the group must also be unfaithful and fished around to find the relationship in Birman’s approach or Moody’s method.
    Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 24 July 2026
Verb
  • Clasping my head is a swimmer’s cap of electrodes fastened under my chin.
    Veronique Greenwood, Time, 18 Aug. 2026
  • The map shows other towers close by, each radiating a string that is fastened to the map when other towers radio in readings.
    Robert Sullivan, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • No league was picked clean this offseason more thoroughly than the American, with four head coaches moving to Power 4 jobs and bringing players with them.
    Chris Vannini, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Southlake Carroll ramping up Southlake Carroll’s offense picked its moments to strike downfield.
    Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • In the absence of stronger signals, the model had latched onto it.
    Lauren Livak Gilbert, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, perhaps the EU’s leading right-wing immigration restrictionist, latched onto the Ceuta episode.
    Kelsey Norman, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The company reaped about $900 million with its initial public offering.
    ABC News, ABC News, 18 Aug. 2026
  • But the programs that have stuck to the Southland have reaped the benefits.
    Gregory Ellwood, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • An already struggling Twitter announced plans to shut it down in 2016.
    Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 23 Aug. 2026
  • Cordovez questioned whether the city had acted too broadly by closing every public pool in Hialeah after the Florida Department of Health singled out Bucky Dent Water Park and shut it down following an inspection that documented 34 violations.
    Verónica Egui Brito, Miami Herald, 22 Aug. 2026

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“Sealed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sealed. Accessed 26 Aug. 2026.

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