sprung

past participle of spring
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Recent Examples of sprung Marvel Tōkon goes a step further, often appearing like a sketchbook sprung to life as background environments and even the characters themselves fade from pencil shades to full virtual ink throughout the game. Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2025 Fields and the Jets would respond, as Wilson sprung free and was open 33 yards from the line of scrimmage for his first touchdown of the season. Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 7 Sep. 2025 The offense remained ice cold, despite being gifted a run, and the bullpen sprung a couple of leaks. Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 4 Sep. 2025 In the test performed for CNN, the flames sprung back up in just moments. Aaron Cooper, CNN Money, 23 Aug. 2025 Readers have sprung to action, sharing contacts at the Ban Chiang National Museum and of family in Thailand willing to help. Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 22 Aug. 2025 This all sprung out of one particular part of the human population and is wrapped up in the details of human history—things such as the invention of the steam engine and the rise of capitalism. Lee Billings, Scientific American, 21 Aug. 2025 Dart’s on-target throw to Wells was a short completion that sprung a nice gain. Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 18 Aug. 2025 Dad spent three days in the intensive care unit before being moved to regular floor unit room and then sprung this weekend for some helpful rehab. Phil Potempa, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sprung
Verb
  • There’s a lot of beauty and thought that actually originated here.
    Vogue Runway, Vogue, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The fire is thought to have originated from natural causes.
    CA WILDFIRE BOT, Sacbee.com, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • D4vd, who first went viral on TikTok, released his debut album in April.
    Alex Stone, ABC News, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Jenkins, a former Brevard County school board member and speech pathologist, released a launch video casting herself as a fighter for working families, drawing on her own experience working multiple jobs to make ends meet.
    Samantha-Jo Roth, The Washington Examiner, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • And to round things out, a couple volleyball-centric stories, as the Cards started their 2025 campaign last week.
    Payton Titus, Louisville Courier Journal, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Bhutia quit his corporate life and started a cloud kitchen in 2023.
    Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Woolen leaped to snag the ball but faded backward while doing so.
    Michael-Shawn Dugar, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Somehow, Tonges stepped in front of Woolen, leaped into the air and snagged the football for the game-winning score.
    Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Indeed, just 10 days after being rescued, Maple had a surprise in store.
    Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Just over 1,500 children have been rescued from Russia, with almost half of those facilitated by Save Ukraine, a charity dedicated to the return of Russian children who helped Katya get back to Ukrainian territory after her weekslong ordeal in the military camp.
    Guy Davies, ABC News, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • There isn’t an active market, like there is for shares in public companies, and issues have arisen in other sports.
    Jesse Silvertown, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • There have been plenty of other scenarios proposed for how these supermassive black holes could have arisen, and all of them are even more problematic than the direct collapse scenario.
    Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Huawei's market share in China jumped to 18% in the second quarter versus 15% in the same period last year, and the company is now the biggest smartphone vendor in China, Counterpoint Research data showed.
    Arjun Kharpal, CNBC, 4 Sep. 2025
  • In July, listings for single-family homes jumped 28 percent year-over-year, to 11,800.
    Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Others – like Boris – are liberated by it.
    David Lyman, Cincinnati Enquirer, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Secondly, and perhaps more importantly, Ozon diverges from the text in a few key places to offer a postcolonial reading of a novel that was published two decades before Algeria liberated itself from French rule.
    Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 2 Sep. 2025

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