steadied

past tense of steady

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for steadied
Verb
  • Rolling around inside my coffin would be a gigantic ball of hair trussed by a Möbius strip of fingernail.
    Esther Yi, New Yorker, 14 June 2026
  • For the last 15 or so years, celebrities have been, in general, more trussed up, as red carpets have become a heightened economic prospective for stars and designers alike.
    Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Europe’s heat endurance continues as multiple countries are braced for triple digit temperatures Thursday.
    Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 25 June 2026
  • Now, as traders fear the bitcoin house of cards could be collapsing, the market is braced for the Federal Reserve’s preferred measure of inflation to cement an interest rate hike later this year.
    Billy Bambrough, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
Verb
  • Almost definitely bolstered by warm, creamy salicylates.
    Ariel Wodarcyk, InStyle, 28 June 2026
  • Google’s in-house tensor processing units (TPUs) serve as the engine to the company’s Gemini chatbot, which has bolstered its image in the past year against rivals like OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
    Paulina Likos, CNBC, 27 June 2026
Verb
  • Brun’s niece sustained injuries during the shooting that were not life-threatening — a scratch on her belly, said Brun.
    ALULA ALDERSON, Sacbee.com, 25 June 2026
  • The Department of Licenses and Inspections responded to the scene and condemned the house, which sustained considerable damage.
    Laura Fay, CBS News, 24 June 2026
Verb
  • Another agreed that Judeo-Christian values should be upheld in the curriculum.
    Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 June 2026
  • The decision is also something of a surprise to me, because the Supreme Court has recently upheld free exercise rights in multiple high-profile cases, almost all of which involve Christianity – such as a football coach’s ability to pray on the field after public school games.
    Charles J. Russo, The Conversation, 26 June 2026
Verb
  • Because of the supportive cushioning and the velcro to ensure a tight wrap, my (big) head stayed upright and in a comfortable position.
    Daniel Modlin, Travel + Leisure, 27 June 2026
  • Neither Charles nor the late Queen Elizabeth had stayed overnight at the palace since 2019.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 26 June 2026
Verb
  • Many have carried the Indian flag and brought copies of the constitution to the demonstration.
    Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 26 June 2026
  • The only real scoring chances arrived in the dying moments of a game that carried macabre tendencies, long after the match had devolved into a turf war.
    Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 26 June 2026
Verb
  • Only the walls remain, buttressed with beams.
    Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 20 June 2026
  • Two Runner is buttressed by a cavalcade of boisterously rootsy country acts all deeply versed in their genre’s bloodlines, who freely celebrate them with aplomb.
    Aaron Davis, Sacbee.com, 29 May 2026
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“Steadied.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/steadied. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.

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