seconded

past tense of second

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for seconded
Verb
  • Research suggests that adopted children tend to benefit from knowing their birth family, their history, and their birth parents’ reasons for seeking adoption.
    Nicole Chung, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Fox News affiliate, KMSP-TV, revealed that he was previously convicted of sending explicit images to a 15-year-old and was reportedly adopted from Liberia at age five.
    Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • His candor, though, has not aided his pitching.
    Andy McCullough, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Achieving that emotional impact is, according to Cameron, aided rather than hindered by the performance capture technology, which allows for smaller crews on set and greater intimacy with the actors.
    Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Foundry Commercial assisted in the sale and announced it in a Friday news release.
    Desiree Mathurin, Charlotte Observer, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The mother of two also used WIC's breast-feeding support program through a peer counselor who assisted her with her first child.
    Tesfaye Negussie, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Stage one is often abetted by venture capital, as in the case of Uber, which in its early days kept its ride prices artificially low.
    Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Meanwhile, my attempts to live in the moment, even those abetted by meditation, have felt squishy, uncertain, and evasive.
    Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Vought, who helped write the policy blueprint known as Project 2025, is playing a major role during the shutdown, including on decisions over whether there are mass layoffs of federal employees instead of furloughs and what funding is cut and what is allowed to flow.
    Sarah D. Wire, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The tax credits, part of the Affordable Care Act, have helped nearly 610,000 Tennesseans afford health insurance premiums this year.
    Beth Warren, Nashville Tennessean, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Although the ‘9-9-6’ workweek violates Chinese labor laws, it was famously endorsed by Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma in 2019.
    Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Separately, on why Democratic leaders who have have not yet endorsed him, such as Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Mamdani downplayed the importance of endorsements more broadly.
    Oren Oppenheim, ABC News, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • If it was forwarded to you, sign up here.
    Raisa Habersham, Miami Herald, 2 Oct. 2025
  • As a result, the invite is automatically forwarded to multiple real targets, broadening the scam’s reach.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Johnson has advocated for a global treaty on plastic waste and champions other policies such as Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) laws to hold plastic-producing companies accountable for the collection and recycling of waste.
    Jeff Young, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Despite the controversy, Murati has consistently advocated for responsible AI development and government regulation.
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2025
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“Seconded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seconded. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.

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