seconded

past tense of second

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for seconded
Verb
  • The company also faces stiff competition from Anthropic and OpenAI, whose chatbots have been more widely adopted by consumers and enterprise customers than xAI’s Grok.
    Bloomberg, Mercury News, 12 June 2026
  • Reisberg had never adopted a dog before.
    Jen Reeder, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
Verb
  • Escaping the jam in the first was a huge momentum lift, aided by a clutch play from Hebert at third place to throw out a runner trying to score on a one-out ground ball to her.
    Tom Mulherin, Boston Herald, 11 June 2026
  • Selig’s approach has aided Kalshi’s valuation run-up—last month, the firm said its most recent funding round came at a $22 billion valuation—and starkly contrasts how the CFTC worked when Joe Biden was president.
    Dan Bernstein, Sportico.com, 11 June 2026
Verb
  • The Hoffman, Barrett, Kensington and Herman fire departments all assisted in the response.
    Riley Moser, CBS News, 7 June 2026
  • The West Metro Fire dive team and Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office also assisted in the search and rescue operation, according to Colorado Parks and Wildlife.
    Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 7 June 2026
Verb
  • Edward Bluemel is an extremely talented performer and will make a great addition to the long line of actors that have played this celebrated character, aided and abetted by Benji Walters’ thoughtful scripts.
    Ellise Shafer, Variety, 8 June 2026
  • Microsoft, which invested in OpenAI as early as 2019, was also named as a defendant in the suit, with Musk claiming the software giant aided and abetted the AI startup in its alleged breach of charitable trust.
    Jeffrey Kopp,Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 18 May 2026
Verb
  • Dare, a District 4-6A First Team and the only class of 2027 athlete to earn a Star-Telegram All-Area First Team selection as an offensive lineman, helped power the Dragons to a Class 6A Division II state semifinal appearance with 76 knockdowns and a 93% grade.
    Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 June 2026
  • While individual stars like Duran and Rivera have helped place the country on the sporting map, supporting ‘La Sele’ has quickly become the nation’s favourite pastime.
    Elias Burke, New York Times, 10 June 2026
Verb
  • He was endorsed by the Yolo County Democratic Party, Yolo County Sheriff Tom Lopez and all five city council members in both Woodland and Davis.
    Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 13 June 2026
  • China is one of a small number of countries to have endorsed Myanmar's recent election conducted by the military junta that carried out the 2021 coup, a vote that most Western countries and human rights groups have dismissed as a sham.
    Wai Moe, NPR, 12 June 2026
Verb
  • According to the lawsuit, the federal government’s only formal communication with the county regarding the project was a one-paragraph letter dated June 21, 2023, and forwarded by an Elmwood Capital representative.
    Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2026
  • Ask what should never be recorded or forwarded.
    Adam Howard, Time, 10 June 2026
Verb
  • Since 2009, the Glen Canyon Institute has advocated for a management plan in which water managers would allow Lake Powell to drain and instead send all water downstream to Lake Mead.
    Elise Schmelzer, Denver Post, 7 June 2026
  • The candidate has criticized the city's handling of the homelessness crisis and advocated for a more effective approach to addressing encampments and connecting people with services.
    Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 6 June 2026
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“Seconded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seconded. Accessed 13 Jun. 2026.

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