SEDIMENTED Synonyms: 15 Similar and Opposite Words

sedimented

verb

past tense of sediment

as in settled

to cause to come to rest at the bottom (as of a liquid) the water flowing into the reservoir is sedimenting silt faster than was originally expected

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Recent Examples of sedimented It’s really sedimented and entangled. — Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 10 June 2026

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Quinn Sullivan started the sequence with a cross in front of goal that Indiana Vassilev settled and pulled goalkeeper William Yarbrough out of his area to find Cavan Sullivan for a close-range finish into an empty net.

— CBS News, CBS News, 8 Nov. 2026
Meta, TikTok and YouTube previously settled with the plaintiffs in the same suit.

— Jonathan Vanian, CNBC, 7 Nov. 2026

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From there, promising athletes were filtered into regional training centers, which further funnelled the very best to INSEP.

— Albert Samaha, New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2026
If a woman’s symptoms are filtered through assumptions about her weight or mental health, and the true story of her pain is omitted, AI may learn and reproduce how the woman is framed in the record.

— Jennifer Silva, STAT, 6 Nov. 2026

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