SECONDED Synonyms: 46 Similar and Opposite Words

seconded

verb

past tense of second

as in adopted

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The MacBook screens have always been top-notch, meeting P3 color-gamut standards despite being IPS panels, and some have adopted additional features like True Tone ambient color adjustment.

— Joe Osborne, PC Magazine, 24 Oct. 2026
How fast the benefits of a truly life-changing technology flow through the economy is the actual measure of how fast it is being adopted.

— Stephen Messer, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of adopted

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Equally responsible for this Bentley’s milestone handling are the Supersports’ electronic limited-slip differential, rear-wheel steering, suspension aided by a 48-volt active anti-roll bar, and enormous carbon-silicon-carbide brakes.

— Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 25 Oct. 2026
Republicans in 2010 capitalized on an economy still experiencing the recession that had aided Obama's win in 2008.

— Ron Elving, NPR, 24 Oct. 2026

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Michigan State Police, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives also assisted.

— DeJanay Booth-Singleton, CBS News, 28 Oct. 2026
Inspector John DiVenere assisted in the prosecution, along with Troop C of the Connecticut State Police, and Tracy Miller-Freeman of the Office of Victim Services.

— Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 27 Oct. 2026

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Narratively, the momentum crests at the protest, abetted by Maksimović’s most dynamic cinematic trickery — which extends to a shot from the perspective of the errant, offending stone.

— Guy Lodge, Variety, 27 Oct. 2026
But fiction and memoirs focusing on gender identity and LGBTQ+ issues have increasingly become targets of censorship, abetted by right-wing parental rights groups like Moms for Liberty.

— Susan Farrell, The Conversation, 2 Oct. 2026

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Political candidates, media figures and even our own government have helped promote the idea Indian Americans are foreigners who threaten this country.

— Raja Krishnamoorthi, Chicago Tribune, 28 Oct. 2026
And similar experiments are playing out in other locales, including in Nigeria, where a 2025 study found access to Microsoft Copilot helped students learn English.

— Zoë Schiffer, semafor.com, 28 Oct. 2026

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Leaders in the Florida Democratic Party’s Jewish Caucus, which had endorsed Nixon’s opponent in the primary, Alex Vindman, have started to come around on Nixon.

— Joseph Strauss, Sun Sentinel, 28 Oct. 2026
Hall of Fame coach Tony Dungy and former Dallas Cowboys coach Jason Garrett, both former NBC colleagues, endorsed her.

— Rick Maese, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2026

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Lula signed into law a measure raising the revenue threshold for individual microentrepreneurs, proposed new initiatives to renegotiate consumer debt and advocated ending online betting, whose expansion has contributed to household indebtedness.

— Alessandra Freitas, CNN Money, 26 Oct. 2026
The fire department has long advocated for its own training center, Bitchakdjian said.

— Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2026

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