SURVEYED Synonyms: 49 Similar and Opposite Words

surveyed

verb

past tense of survey

as in interviewed

to go around and approach (people) with a request for opinions or information surveyed the medical residents and found out that 60% of them don't think they get enough sleep

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reported

as in examined

to look over closely (as for judging quality or condition) surveyed the books at the estate sale, fondly hoping to find a rare first edition

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Recent Examples of surveyed Susanna hung to a strap in the crowded car, and critically surveyed the seated crowd spreading just below, from which no one had separated and individualized himself by giving her a seat. — Literary Hub, 5 Oct. 2026 The results also differed markedly depending on the wealth of the country surveyed. — Will McCurdy, PC Magazine, 4 Oct. 2026 The only place surveyed where the Republican is ahead in the campaign for the governor’s office is Kansas, now held by a retiring Democrat. — Ruth Igielnik, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2026 Economists surveyed by Dow Jones had been predicting an 84,000 increase and unemployment to remain steady. — Sarah Min,davis Giangiulio,sawdah Bhaimiya, CNBC, 2 Oct. 2026 The poll surveyed 427 Latinos and has a margin of error of about 6 percentage points among that group. — Itzel Luna, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026 About 59% of companies surveyed are past the pilot phase, David said. — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026 In July, Pew found that 53% of Americans surveyed had an unfavorable opinion of the court. — Henry Gass, Christian Science Monitor, 2 Oct. 2026 Economists surveyed by Bloomberg this month raised their forecasts for China’s trade growth for the year, now expecting exports to grow 17 percent and imports to rise 22 percent. — Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 29 Sep. 2026

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By that time, investigators had run down anonymous tips, interviewed witnesses and contacted attorneys hired by the accused, the documents show.

— Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2026
ProPublica reviewed a trove of evidence gathered by the FBI and thousands of pages of legal records, and interviewed dozens of people familiar with Navatek, its Washington operations and the FBI inquiry to conduct our own investigation.

— Katie Nixdorf, ProPublica, 3 Oct. 2026

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In the fourth quarter, left tackle Rashawn Slater lay for several moments on the turf and was examined by medical staff before rising to his feet and walking gingerly to the sideline with an ankle injury.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2026
Under D’Amaro, Disney has enacted new rounds of layoffs and examined its cost structure.

— Brian Steinberg, Variety, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of examined

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As for the plane in question, this is a variant of the venerable F-16 and is a heavily modernized version featuring, among other features, APG-83 Active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar.

— Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2026
GPTZero also scanned 300 of the roughly 20,000 submissions to the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) and found more than 50 hallucinated citations.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of scanned

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The app also uses daily skin scans to track changes, with treatment plans reviewed monthly based on the patient’s response.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 5 Oct. 2026
The reporter independently reported and verified the factual claims in this article, and a human editor reviewed it before publication.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of reviewed

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This is, of course, not a fair fight, since even at its most successful Hollywood products are viewed in the millions while social-media giants measure results in the billions.

— Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 5 Oct. 2026
NBCUniversal also reports that in terms of reach, or the number of people who viewed any portion of the episode, the Season 30 premiere hit more than 19 million viewers across platforms.

— Selome Hailu, Variety, 5 Oct. 2026

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