SQUARED AWAY Synonyms: 77 Similar and Opposite Words

squared away

verb

past tense of square away

as in mapped (out)

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New York's congressional delegation insisted 9/11 victim compensation be worked out before the airlines get their wishes fulfilled.

— Kayla Dwyer, IndyStar, 11 Sep. 2026
Imanaga worked out of a two-out single in the frame, then escaped a leadoff walk in the second to keep the deficit at one.

— Andy Martinez, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of worked out

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In 2011, former Time Warner Cable executives hammered out the 20-year agreement with the Lakers, then owned by the late Jerry Buss.

— Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2026
In April, Williams hammered out a two-year extension that pushed off retirement talk and let the 49ers focus elsewhere in the draft instead of splurging on a replacement.

— Cam Inman, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of hammered out

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In a move away from the traditional group stages, the league phase is designed to be fair through a seeding system.

— Leon Imber, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
The approach is designed to increase the speed and scale of module production and installation while maintaining quality.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of designed

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The Cinderella dress that Kaitlyn Argyriou’s mother had sewn for her as a child and which Argyriou’s daughter, Avery, 4, had planned to wear trick-or-treating in Colorado Springs on Halloween.

— Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 5 Sep. 2026
The production planned to grab exterior footage outside Broadway’s Music Box Theatre — the film’s principal location — before a New York City blizzard intervened.

— Clayton Davis, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of planned

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They’re typically hand-shaped from clay, which is very porous.

— Alexandra Kelly, Martha Stewart, 5 Sep. 2026
In her 2015 memoir, Steinem recounts her dynamic, nomadic career as a writer and activist, and pays vivid homage to the people, places, and conversations that shaped her.

— Mary Lawrence Ware, semafor.com, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of shaped

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After Ekwonu ruptured his patellar tendon in the playoff loss to the Los Angeles Rams, the Panthers signed veteran tackle Rasheed Walker to a one-year deal in free agency, then drafted Freeling with the 19th pick a month later.

— Joseph Person, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
Bethea was drafted by the Indianapolis Colts in the sixth round of the 2006 draft.

— Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 8 Sep. 2026

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