steadied

past tense of steady

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for steadied
Verb
  • At exactly noon on New Year’s Day, about 20 people braced their feet against the silty shore of Lake Natoma, hopping and fidgeting to warm themselves.
    Annika Merrilees, Sacramento Bee, 1 Jan. 2025
  • Trinidad and Tobago declared a state of emergency on Monday as the government braced for reprisal shootings after an attempt on a gang leader’s life, officials said.
    Reuters, NBC News, 30 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • An anterior cruciate ligament injury sustained in 2019 did not adversely impact on his progress.
    Felipe Cardenas, The Athletic, 24 Dec. 2024
  • This is the second season Dell sustained a serious injury.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • As Reuters reports, Indonesia's Ministry of Industry has upheld its ban on the iPhone 16 because Apple has yet to meet its domestic content rules.
    Jibin Joseph, PCMAG, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Other coalitions are arguing the ban should be upheld, including former national security officials, former officials at the Federal Communications Commission and activist groups that advocate on behalf of the Uyghur people, people in Hong Kong and others against the Chinese government.
    Alison Durkee, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • If Dan Burn’s goal and elevation to the England squad became the individual story of the weekend and Isak’s goal carried a tang of inevitability — so good, so unstoppable — then Newcastle’s midfield felt like the crux of it.
    George Caulkin, The Athletic, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Smoke particles carried by the wind infiltrate homes, schools, and offices, posing serious health risks.
    Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 24 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • This conviction underlay the Victorian workhouses in 19th-century England that Charles Dickens critiqued through his novels.
    Colin Gordon, The Conversation, 29 May 2025
  • There are still cheerleaders who say H.W. and Clinton’s top-tax-rate increases underlay the 1990s boom and budget surpluses.
    Brian Domitrovic, Forbes.com, 10 May 2025
Verb
  • Signs of infestation include a decline in leaf growth, boring dust in the cracks of tree bark and oozing sap, according to University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources.
    Cameron Macdonald, Mercury News, 20 June 2025
  • Burnett seems bored by the conventions of the revenge gangster plot, which took over Black film and music, in the nineties.
    Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 14 June 2025
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“Steadied.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/steadied. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.

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