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 The four-time All-Star sensed the frustration Baldwin was carrying. — Jesús Cano, New York Times, 10 July 2026 Leviticus writer-director Adrian Chiarella sensed a shift in the world’s acceptance and tolerance toward the LGBTQIA+ community. — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 22 June 2026 This remark by a North Carolina journalist in 1848 neatly distilled what many sensed was overtaking American life. — David S. Reynolds, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2026 But the immune system has sensed that something is wrong, and spurs a more brute force reaction. — Jonathan Lambert, NPR, 2 June 2026 But when Melanie Thomley reached out asking for help with her severely matted hair, Fazal immediately sensed the situation was about much more than a hairstyle. — Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 1 June 2026 Light bounces off the pothos and strikes the phone’s sensor, which records numbers representing the color the phone sensed. — Douglas Goodwin, The Conversation, 1 June 2026 Witnesses to the downtown Sacramento mass shooting that left six dead and more than a dozen wounded as nightclubs closed on K Street sensed trouble in the moments before the shots were fired. — Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 29 May 2026 Amazon sensed strong parallels with Marvel's hugely-successful Thor films which put Chris Hemsworth on the map. — Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 25 May 2026

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Verb

That number was felt most in the line to get in, which stretched for several daunting Queens blocks, giving the Spring Awakening open call a run for its money.

— Tom Smyth, Vulture, 14 July 2026
The mash-fest seems to fit the streamer’s sweet spot of entertainment-heavy sporting events, though if anything, its presentation of the derby felt surprisingly subdued in comparison to past spectacles.

— Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 14 July 2026

Definition of felt

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Inspectors also noticed that cold foods were being held at incorrect temperatures, according to the report.

— Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 July 2026
Role of atomic ordering In the studies, the researchers noticed that individual samples of nichrome were much more prone to corrosion than other alloys with the same chemical composition.

— Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 14 July 2026

Definition of noticed

Verb

Charles Birnbaum, president of The Cultural Landscape Foundation, said his nonprofit was recognized as a Section 106 consulting party about the fencing in April, but has not been invited to any meetings about it.

— Rachel Treisman, NPR, 16 July 2026
Hayward and Bienvenue also recognized that their stories had been shortened for the show, so audiences did not see all of the necessary context for their engagement.

— Luke Chinman, PEOPLE, 16 July 2026

Definition of recognized

Verb

My father used a powerful glue to reassemble the cowboy, which twenty-five years later still smelled like orange peels.

— Will Mackin, New Yorker, 28 June 2026
In a strange twist, the potential buyer reportedly smelled a rat and reached out to someone with the company, to make sure the machinery hadn’t been stolen.

— Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 25 June 2026

Definition of smelled

Verb

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
The signature was deciphered with the help of AI, and specialists at auction house Lyon & Turnbull were able to confirm that Cadell was the artist.

— Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 20 June 2026

Definition of deciphered

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