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shrimped

verb

past tense of shrimp
as in sealed

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shrimped
  1. sealed
  2. harvested
  3. fished
  4. picked
  5. reaped
  6. accumulated
  7. gathered
  8. garnered
Verb
  • State police noticed the trailer wasn't sealed and Singh indicated the seal was inside the cab.
    — Christina Hall, Freep.com, 10 Nov. 2025
Definition of sealed
Verb
  • Last year, Van Dina secured a permit and harvested a female adult bear in Collier County.
    — Zoey Thomas, Miami Herald, 15 Sep. 2026
  • This could be born from insights harvested from statistical modeling.
    — Eno Sarris, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of harvested
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  • The interview was filmed in Montana, where Newsom’s in-laws own a ranch, as Newsom and Tapper fly-fished together.
    — Justine McDaniel, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Ngy worked construction and fished in his free time, eventually burning out after too many layoffs and inconsistent work following the housing crash of 2008.
    — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of fished
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  • With Balde out of favour and summer re-signing Joao Cancelo not yet fully up to speed, Flick has picked Espart at left-back for each of Barca’s opening five matches in La Liga.
    — Laia Cervelló Herrero, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Otosaka said the study stopped with 2023 data, but she's looked at measurements since and found the accelerating trend has picked back up.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of picked
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  • All three are allegedly part of Ghost Town, a notorious gang from West Oakland that made headlines last year for a brazen high-end robbery spree that reaped hundreds of thousands of dollars and left victims traumatized, according to court records.
    — Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 2 Sep. 2026
  • The company reaped about $900 million with its initial public offering.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of reaped
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  • The system is a maze in which laws collide with gray areas, where layers upon layers of policy have accumulated over decades in a pile waiting for reform that has never come.
    — Andrew Carter, Chicago Tribune, 20 Sep. 2026
  • Its fleet includes the MANTAS X-Class and Devil Ray Expeditionary Class platforms, which MARTAC says have accumulated thousands of operating hours across a range of conditions.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 20 Sep. 2026
Definition of accumulated
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  • Hours after the tragedy occurred, dozens of community members and teenagers gathered in Manhattan’s East Village at the intersection of East 14th Street and First Avenue to pay tribute to Serkov.
    — Desiree Anello, PEOPLE, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Prosecutors assembled thousands of pages of text messages and emails, obtained bank and flight records, gathered corroborating witnesses, and collected video footage of freak-offs and the damning tape of Combs attacking Ventura.
    — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of gathered
Verb
  • Then came Amodei’s essay over the weekend, which garnered support from OpenAI’s Sam Altman and S paceX ‘s Elon Musk, taking the debate up another notch.
    — Zev Fima, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Disney has cut a deal with Like Nastya, which has garnered more than 450 billion views across its 25 YouTube channels, with more than 450 million current subscribers.
    — Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of garnered
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“Shrimped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shrimped. Accessed 23 Sep. 2026.

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