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
  • She was braced against a near-vertical gray rock on a steep part of the mountain, with her back unnaturally arched and her face pointed at the sky, eyes open.
    William Finnegan, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
  • Germany and Austria are enduring heat in the 90s, and braced for worse as the weather moves east.
    Beth Gardiner, The Atlantic, 26 June 2026
Verb
  • After that was a long drive across the state of Alabama, bolstered by MoonPies, before our final leg in New Orleans.
    Rachel Tepper Paley, Bon Appetit Magazine, 1 July 2026
  • In Asia and Europe, tech shares were bolstered by bumper gains in the semiconductor space.
    Chloe Taylor, CNBC, 1 July 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
  • The format for Solid Sound has stayed the same for years now, a reliable framework that Tweedy and his bandmates, friends, and family fill out with endless variety.
    Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 29 June 2026
  • That's when witnesses called 911, and the neighbor stayed at the scene to be interviewed by homicide detectives, officials confirmed.
    Briauna Brown, CBS News, 29 June 2026
Verb
  • Fujimori’s presidency marks a return of her family’s political brand to Peru’s highest office — a movement that has long carried a complicated relationship with the United States.
    Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 1 July 2026
  • Since relocating to Los Angeles, Gonzalez’s small downtown team has scaled Happy Organics into a design-forward brand carried by major retailers, anchored in local maker communities and a sense of purpose.
    Lisa Boone, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 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 2 Jul. 2026.

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