SENSED Synonyms: 85 Similar and Opposite Words

sensed

verb

past tense of sense

as in felt

to have a vague awareness of the deer seemed to sense danger

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as in understood

to have a clear idea of I did not sense the full meaning of his cryptic warning until much later

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Recent Examples of sensed O’Neal sensed a similar opportunity with the NBA Slam Dunk Contest. — Marlow Stern, Variety, 25 Aug. 2026 Falwell correctly sensed vulnerability in the uneasy alliance between rationalism and Christianity that had prevailed since the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. — Literary Hub, 25 Aug. 2026 His cartel bosses sensed potential and sent him to flight school in Culiacán, the capital of Sinaloa state. — Senior Editor, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2026 Jacalyn Lee first sensed something was off with her daughter, Isla, just before her first birthday. — Brad Quick, CNBC, 18 Aug. 2026 Luwi and the other highland boys sometimes attended Gajdusek’s lectures about kuru, and Luwi sensed that their presence gave him more credibility. — Rachel Aviv, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026 As far back as 2017, OpenAI identified a sentiment neuron—a particular node in an AI model’s deep learning network that sensed whether the bias in an online Amazon review was positive or negative. — Foreign Affairs, 10 Aug. 2026 But the wiser part of me has always sensed that eventually a stroke of fate would lead me to reembrace my roots. — Megan O’Sullivan, Vogue, 6 Aug. 2026 But Bleecker sensed the audience for such a show regardless, especially one that’s been captured well. — Brian Welk, IndieWire, 27 July 2026

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Verb

Some Black shoppers, who felt alienated after Target’s 2025 DEI rollbacks, expressed fresh disappointment on Monday.

— Reuters, CNN Money, 25 Aug. 2026
Yet the recent swirl of negative discourse around influencer culture has felt different, in part because hating influencers is no longer just a snarky internet pastime.

— Laura Jung, Vogue, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of felt

Verb

The studio knew how to attract attention and involve players in the development process.

— Ian Shepherd, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026
At the vigil for what would have been Wells’ 19th birthday on Wednesday, Sharpton said questions about what the friends knew and why the phone and keys were not immediately relinquished should be litigated.

— Dalia Faheid, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of knew

Verb

Many university students have turned the ROI factor into the pursuit of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) careers, and many of the top ranking schools were recognized for their STEM programs.

— Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 27 Aug. 2026
The attempt to rename the gulf, which has gone by the same name since the 16th Century, drew international opposition, and numerous media outlets vowed to stick with the common and internationally recognized usage.

— Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of recognized

Verb

During a recent visit by the Tribune, East 100th Street outside Pullman Innovations smelled somewhere between rotten eggs and manure.

— Finnegan Belleau, Chicago Tribune, 19 Aug. 2026
Xcel crews told fire officials that a nearby business had used a cleaning solution that smelled like propane gas.

— Seth Klamann, Denver Post, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of smelled

Verb

Uncertainty notwithstanding, the longevity world has glommed onto the notion that the vaginal microbiome is some kind of exotic tealeaf that can be deciphered—and perfected by purchasing the right supplements.

— Sarah DiGregorio, Vanity Fair, 27 July 2026
Its successor script, Linea B, was also a mystery until it was deciphered in 1952 by an amateur linguist and cryptographer Michael Ventris with the help of classicist John Chadwick, both building on patterns in the script first identified by classicist Alice Kober.

— Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 23 June 2026

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