steadied

past tense of steady

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for steadied
Verb
  • Such as especially the case with sneakers, which can be cobbled together from as many as 60 wholly disparate parts, each designed to coddle, protect or perform, from leather uppers to EVA midsoles to the individual metal eyelet through which a cotton or polyester shoelace can be braced and secured.
    Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 1 Oct. 2025
  • When tickets went on sale in Almaty on September 23, strict purchase limits were imposed as organizers braced for unprecedented demand.
    Nina Subkhanberdina, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Cunningham’s veto votes, immigration comments draw ire Critiques came to a head this summer when Cunningham cast the deciding vote to override Stein’s veto of House Bill 318, which bolstered the legislation enacted last year requiring sheriffs to cooperate with federal immigration authorities.
    Mary Ramsey October 3, Charlotte Observer, 3 Oct. 2025
  • One area of the roster that needs to be bolstered is the starting rotation.
    Drew VonScio, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • From a potentially serious injury sustained by linebacker Dwight Nunoo to a multitude of mistakes, Saturday’s 51-10 loss to the host Connecticut Huskies (4-2) was devastating to FIU (2-3).
    Walter Villa, Miami Herald, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Henry's body sustained serious burns, and the official cause of death was asphyxiation leading to heart failure.
    JR Radcliffe, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Courts previously have upheld the legality of such laws.
    Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The papers’ publication by The New York Times and later The Washington Post led to a landmark Supreme Court fight that upheld the First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of the press.
    Ellen Mitchell, The Hill, 28 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In a post on Reddit, the woman explained that her mother-in-law stayed at their house one night back in June.
    Meredith Wilshere, PEOPLE, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Our audience has always stayed relatively young, and more so now with TikTok, and change is good.
    Jillian Sederholm, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Federal officers carried four people into the ICE facility on Tuesday night, according to CNN affiliate KATU.
    Hanna Park, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2025
  • While the changes would result in the 10-term congresswoman’s district shifting rightward by about 15 points, Kamala Harris still would have carried it by nearly 13% in the presidential election.
    Nicole Nixon, Sacbee.com, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Murdoch’s media muscle has been increasingly buttressed by his Wall Street Journal revenues as well as those of the doctrinaire Fox News.
    Peter Bart, Deadline, 11 Sep. 2025
  • So that needs to be buttressed.
    Sarah Fortinsky, The Hill, 24 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Padel 100’s rollout is underpinned by strategic partnerships with Acenta Group (Sweden), Playtomic and NXPadel.
    Sportico Staff, Sportico.com, 26 Sep. 2025
  • All objects in the Universe moved through this fabric, and the task for a novel theory of gravity would be to explain how not just masses, but all forms of energy, shaped this fabric that underpinned the Universe itself.
    Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 23 Sep. 2025
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“Steadied.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/steadied. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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