swapped

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 Californians made up just under a quarter of the more than 56,400 people who swapped their out-of-state licenses for Gem State cards last year. Idaho Statesman, 26 Aug. 2026 More than one OpenAI agent was involved in the hack of Hugging Face, and in at least one case the agents swapped notes on how to sneak into the company’s network. Reuters, NBC news, 26 Aug. 2026 The 2026 first was swapped for Jared McCain before last season’s trade deadline. Zach Harper, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026 Going deeper Sherry House, CFO of Ford Motor Company, recently swapped her usual Friday agenda and joined the automaker's finance team for a volunteer shift at Forgotten Harvest. Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2026 Johnson remains eligible for the Heat’s third and final two-way contract, with those contracts able to be swapped out at any time. Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 24 Aug. 2026 Everton replaced betting company Stake with financial services firm CMC Markets, while Brentford swapped Hollywoodbets for recruitment platform Indeed. Tom Chitty, CNBC, 21 Aug. 2026 While on tour together, Rise Against and Architects even swapped members while playing each other’s namesake songs. Marissa R. Moss, Rolling Stone, 20 Aug. 2026 To grow the bottom line, executives are focused on both bolstering the network’s place as the cable bundle’s most valuable channel and reaching a new generation of fans who have largely swapped channel flipping with feed swiping. Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 20 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for swapped
Verb
  • Bucci went there and quickly discovered that enthusiasm could be exchanged for access.
    Gemma Redrup, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Davis exchanged vows with Goldblum in 1987 after meeting him on the set of Transylvania 6-5000 two years prior.
    Hannah Malach, InStyle, 25 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The video traded the genre’s typical easy-breezy style for a mashup of clips where flames rose, expletives flew, and Tiedemann flipped the bird toward the camera at every opportunity.
    CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 26 Aug. 2026
  • When the game resumes today, he has since been traded to Boston, and takes over behind the plate for Reese McGuire, who has been released.
    Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The Springboks scrum was better than advertised until props Ox Nché and Wilco Louw were substituted.
    ABC News, ABC News, 22 Aug. 2026
  • Doku, 24, started his side’s 3-0 Community Shield defeat to Arsenal last Sunday but was substituted at half-time.
    Nnamdi Onyeagwara, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The small business, incorporated in 2017, changed its name from Hanes Road Carryout to Beaver’s Mini Mart in January 2025, according to the paperwork.
    ABC News, ABC News, 23 Aug. 2026
  • Stanford is his first college coaching job, but Richard said his approach hasn’t changed.
    Harold Gutmann, Mercury News, 22 Aug. 2026

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“Swapped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swapped. Accessed 29 Aug. 2026.

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