SPADED Synonyms: 15 Similar and Opposite Words

spaded

verb

past tense of spade

as in scooped

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scooped

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But many of those discs eventually found their way into secondhand shops and estate sales where private collectors scooped them up for safekeeping.

— Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 10 July 2026
This one -- as hundreds of users on TikTok and Instagram have shown in the last week -- starts with half of a watermelon that's been scooped to create a bowl-like indent and frozen overnight.

— Kelly McCarthy, ABC News, 10 July 2026

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