STRADDLED Synonyms: 111 Similar and Opposite Words

straddled

verb

past tense of straddle

as in perched

to be in or move into a seated or standing position with your legs on either side of (something) She straddled the horse and waited for her riding partner to mount.

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as in spanned

to be on both sides of (something) The town straddles the river. The movie straddles the line between comedy and drama.

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as in shook

to agree with or seem to agree with two opposite sides of (something) The politician straddled the issue for weeks.

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Recent Examples of straddled My career straddled the introduction of video reviews, and being able to move on from major errors was a crucial part of the job. — Graham Scott, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026 Freddy straddled all these worlds, observing their points of intersection and grooves of adjacency. — Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026 The following week, Rahe answered a phone call from Al Ameskamp, the owner of one of the two farms the movie ballfield straddled. — CBS News, 13 Aug. 2026 Baez threw the driver on the ground, straddled him and pressed a gun to his back. — Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 12 June 2026 Pelosi then straddled the gator’s tail and got on top of the animal while the officer continued to restrain in the front, the video showed. — Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel, 12 June 2026 Throughout much of his career, Bruno Mars has straddled the line between pop and R&B. — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026 Then came last year’s The Most Dear and The Future, a slender collection of tracks that straddled a line between pop, ambient, folk, and dance with an air of rustic mysticism that seemed to travel through music circles like gossip bursting from localized containment. — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 2 June 2026 The song's music video, filmed on the USS Missouri, was the first ever to be banned from MTV, because the superstar straddled a cannon on the battleship and also wore a barely-there, now-iconic leotard. — Andrea Wurzburger, PEOPLE, 20 May 2026

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Verb

During the summer, they can be seen by the hundreds perched atop telephone wires near the shore, the organization says.

— Neal Riley, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2026
Rooms There’s a range of accommodations here, from cozy poolside rooms to the two-bedroom Tuscany Suite perched above the grounds.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of perched

Verb

Capen’s career in public service and the newspaper business spanned more than half a century.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 17 Sep. 2026
After being sent a video of dogs communicating through soundboards, Rossano started a community science experiment that spanned six continents and 10,000 dogs.

— Mary Randolph, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of spanned

Verb

When not giving water, Radha squatted under the awning of the vegetable-oil store next to the liquor shop.

— Akhil Sharma, New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2026
For most of that session, Melton squatted behind the plate, sweating and catching bullpens for pitchers who had more experience and more college offers.

— Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of squatted

Verb

In its northern section, excavators found a main street running east to west; this is intersected by a road running south to north, indicating some level of urban planning within the fortification.

— Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 18 Sep. 2026
These symmetrical shapes each consist of faces that are identical polygons (n-gons), where each vertex is intersected by exactly m edges.

— Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of intersected

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This fine establishment has sat at the same address in the Williamsburg Bridge's shadow since 1887, and the interiors carry about as many frills as your average public house—dark wood, plaster walls, and so on.

— Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Dec. 2025
The birthday boy and his big sister Sterling Skye, 3, each sat between one of their parents’ laps.

— Angel Saunders, People.com, 24 Dec. 2024