shown

variants or showed
past participle of show
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Recent Examples of shown The results released early Friday showed Netanyahu's bloc won 53 seats in Tuesday's election. — Cara Anna, Arkansas Online, 31 Oct. 2026 The video showed a woman emerging from a Honda Odyssey and laying kibble on the ground near the driver’s side door. — Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2026 States including California and New York are proposing disclosure when images are digitally (AI) altered and that the original image be shown. — Anthony Paganucci, Forbes.com, 30 Oct. 2026 Percy Jackson says in one of the clips shown at Lucca, drawing a wild roar from fans assembled at the Teatro Moderno movie theatre. — John Bleasdale, Variety, 30 Oct. 2026 In a keynote speech at a 2018 conference in Sweden, Benson showed a slide with a map of CCS facilities across the world, most of which were enhanced oil recovery sites. — Katie Worth, ProPublica, 30 Oct. 2026 But in the exhibition victories over Syracuse, Texas and Army, Strong was the leading scorer and as a junior showed the willingness to take charge on the court. — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 30 Oct. 2026 Adam Hart, a senior product manager at Chainalysis, showed CNBC the data the firm collects on each Polymarket trader. — Melissa Lee,paige Tortorelli, CNBC, 30 Oct. 2026 Their calculations showed that the molecule conducts electricity very differently depending on its rotational angle. — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shown
Verb
  • But Pat Murphy’s team displayed the resilience of the 67-year-old manager, who survived a heart attack in 2020 and was the NL Manager of the Year in his first two full seasons at the helm in 2024 and 2025.
    — Rob Maaddi, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2026
  • But this team displayed the toughness and resilience of 67-year-old manager Pat Murphy, who survived a heart attack in 2020 and was the NL Manager of the Year in his first two full seasons at the helm in 2024 and 2025.
    — Rob Maaddi, Chicago Tribune, 29 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Two new clades of the virus, SHAV-EU1 and SHAV-EU2, were detected earlier this year, and genetic testing revealed traces of the first type in the deceased person’s cerebrospinal fluid, urine and saliva, among other samples.
    — Sahas Mehra, Scientific American, 28 Oct. 2026
  • Key Takeaways The experiment revealed an unexpected way to manipulate the weak magnetism inside an atomic nucleus.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 28 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The decision to launch the movie in moderate release — rather than limited in just a handful of venues or nationwide on more than 2,000 screens — proved wise because the studio was able to bolster awareness while cultivating a sense of scarcity.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 26 Oct. 2026
  • The route Morrison and Nelson had in mind, the Super Direct, via the Hornbein and Japanese Couloirs, has proved almost unclimbable, much less skiable.
    — Nick Paumgarten, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The class begins with incarcerated people being taught general knowledge of the industry.
    — Sydney Sasser, Charlotte Observer, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Tyx has lived in the Kansas City area for four years and previously taught middle school Spanish.
    — Taylor O'Connor, Kansas City Star, 5 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Chinese documentary filmmaker Nanfu Wang produced and directed One Child Nation (2019) alongside Jialing Zhang to explore the legacy of China’s one-child policy (late 1970s–2016).
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Oct. 2026
  • Now in 2026, several men wearing all black with red ties, like Way does in the music video directed by Marc Webb, trickle in as soon as the doors open.
    — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Anderson said the man appeared to have died of natural causes and that no foul play was suspected.
    — Alene Tchekmedyian, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Nigeria's Health Minister Muhammad Pate said Friday that the woman's infection appeared closely related to Kenya's first case, while cautioning that this did not necessarily establish the transmission route.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Gates, who now stewards the photographic archives and periodicals of the Johnson Publishing Company, has exhibited it in different forms.
    — Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2026
  • The investigation also found no evidence that the parents exhibited any obvious signs of impairment, the office said.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Anthropic researchers demonstrated this weakness by using Claude to generate seemingly innocent stories that taught other models to resist human oversight.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 31 Oct. 2026
  • Patients largely avoided drug, with the whole episode culminating in investigations by the media and Congress that demonstrated improper pressure by the manufacturer on the FDA leading to the approval decision.
    — C. Joseph Ross Daval, STAT, 30 Oct. 2026

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“Shown.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shown. Accessed 31 Oct. 2026.

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