swapped

verb

past tense of swap
as in exchanged
to give up (something) and take something else in return we swapped our other lawn mower for our neighbors' old snowblower

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Recent Examples of swapped The Charlotte Hornets coach is already impressed with the demeanor and mentality of Naz Reid, the player swapped along with draft pick compensation in the trade sending LaMelo Ball and Josh Green to Minnesota. — Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 23 July 2026 However, the design has been simplified with some components omitted or swapped for less complex ones. — David Szondy july 22, New Atlas, 23 July 2026 The Sabres swapped Byram and found an even younger defenseman to replace him with Olen Zellweger. — Shayna Goldman, New York Times, 21 July 2026 Lamb also swapped racist jokes with a border extremist in an online message exchange, The Republic found, and spent months launching a multimillion-dollar ranch business in Tennessee while running for Congress in Arizona. — Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 21 July 2026 While booking the flight online several months ago, Varela’s wife accidentally swapped her daughter’s middle and last names in the ticketing system. — Drew Pittock, USA Today, 21 July 2026 Host Peter Ruiz, who guides guests through their Cube experience, said that the company has the rights to all of the games from the television show, so games could be swapped out at any time. — Ryan P. C. Trimble, Chicago Tribune, 19 July 2026 Cops used surveillance video to track the truck, and later discovered that the license plates had been swapped, officials said. — Julian Roberts-Grmela, New York Daily News, 17 July 2026 The apple next to Citi Field’s scoreboard had swapped out the Mets logo for Gotham’s. — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 16 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for swapped
  1. exchanged
  2. traded
  3. substituted
  4. changed
Verb
  • The model exchanged vows with singer Matty Healy in Los Angeles on July 18, and one of her three bridal ensembles broke this major tradition.
    — Hannah Malach, InStyle, 22 July 2026
  • New York Yankees shortstop José Caballero was at the center of a tense scene on Monday night — one in which benches cleared, words were exchanged, but no punches were thrown.
    — Brendan Kuty, New York Times, 21 July 2026
Definition of exchanged
Verb
  • The Falcons traded a 2027 sixth-round pick to the Chiefs for Morris and a seventh-round pick.
    — Daniel Flick, AJC.com, 23 July 2026
  • Water and land are two different assets — owned, priced, traded, and borrowed against separately.
    — Daren Smith, IndieWire, 22 July 2026
Definition of traded
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  • The group figured Smith’s admission date had to have been entered in error; a clerk must have substituted his birth date by mistake.
    — Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 19 July 2026
  • Bellingham was substituted into the match in the 79th minute.
    — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 18 July 2026
Definition of substituted
Verb
  • The knowledge hasn’t changed the way Morrison feels about the family he’s always known.
    — Mikella Schuettler, Fortune, 18 July 2026
  • That changed when officials asked him to review his shot from the fifth hole.
    — Doug Ferguson, Hartford Courant, 18 July 2026
Definition of changed

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