sinned

past tense of sin

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Recent Examples of sinned During the week, Barton often painted an image of himself as more sinned against than sinning. Greg O'Keeffe, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2025 That image of God never has a problem, never has a disease, never lacks anything needful or truly desirable, and has never sinned. Douglas Sytsma, Christian Science Monitor, 30 Jan. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sinned
Verb
  • The mother had also requested that Field be trespassed from the property.
    CBS Miami Team, CBS News, 12 June 2026
  • Emory claimed that day that those arrested were outsiders who trespassed on school property.
    ABC News, ABC News, 23 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • The most dangerous situation appeared to be on Barrington Avenue, west of East Dundee Village Hall, where a light, a utility pole and part of a parkway tree were felled by strong winds, leaving power lines dangling across the road.
    Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 25 June 2026
  • John Adams famously wrote to his wife, Abigail, that smallpox was killing 10 soldiers for every one felled in battle.
    Katrine L. Wallace, The Conversation, 24 June 2026
Verb
  • Those who wandered alone did not.
    Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • After the good Samaritan got him off the woman, witnesses say the man wandered to produce and began attacking a 16-year-old boy, but Garbe had followed him.
    Joy Benedict, CBS News, 19 June 2026
Verb
  • According to Allen’s album, Harbour would’ve allegedly transgressed past the bounds of their open marriage.
    Chris Murphy, Vanity Fair, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Nothing about the Commission's proceedings, moreover, transgressed the Seventh Amendment's jury trial guarantee.
    Nate Anderson, ArsTechnica, 10 Sep. 2025

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“Sinned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sinned. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.

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