tagged 1 of 2

past tense of tag
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as in labeled
to attach an identifying slip to tagged all the dresses with sale stickers before putting them on the rack

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as in chased
to go after or on the track of wildlife experts surreptitiously tagged the timber wolf, carefully keeping a safe distance so the wolf wouldn't catch their scent and run

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tagged

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Recent Examples of tagged
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But the right-hander was tagged by Jake Bauer's two-run double in the fourth and David Hamilton's RBI single that chased Glasnow in the fifth and left Milwaukee trailing 4-3. — ABC News, 16 Oct. 2026 Since June 2025, the SIR has tagged roughly 130 million names for removal from the voter rolls. — Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2026 While Gutierrez has been productive, his performance has not been spotless, as he was tagged for two fumbles against both Tulsa and UAB. — Greg Luca, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Oct. 2026 Officials are also continuing to monitor coastal homes that were red- and yellow-tagged during the weekend onslaught. — Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2026 Other top works are a Burri, a Fontana, and a Warhol, all tagged at $4–6 million. — Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 8 Oct. 2026 Howard got tagged with her fourth and Reese sat in the final moments of the second quarter with three. — Fiifi Frimpong, New York Daily News, 8 Oct. 2026 From there, Caden brought in Tyler, who then tagged in Toby, while Recker welcomed Bryan. — Alicia Urrea, Billboard, 7 Oct. 2026 That day in August, the woman was awakened by Ross, who was enraged by a photo she was tagged in on Instagram, according to Ross’ arrest report. — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 1 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tagged
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  • Despite the charger advertising 160W charging passthrough, its USB-C ports labeled C1 and C2 each top out at 140W when just one device is plugged into the charger.
    — Cameron Faulkner, The Verge, 21 Oct. 2026
  • The processing defect was labeled a Class I Threat by the Food Safety and Inspection Service.
    — Eva Flowe October 21, Charlotte Observer, 21 Oct. 2026
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  • She has just been released from rehab after falling off the wagon and spends much of her day either sleeping or recovering from bad dreams of being chased by Nazis.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2026
  • But the right-hander was tagged by Jake Bauer's two-run double in the fourth and David Hamilton's RBI single that chased Glasnow in the fifth and left Milwaukee trailing 4-3.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 16 Oct. 2026
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  • The Fresh Prince comment referred, unintentionally or not, to the infamous 2022 Oscar-night moment when Will Smith slapped Chris Rock across the face after the latter made a joke about Smith’s wife Jada Pinkett Smith.
    — Greg Evans, Deadline, 17 Oct. 2026
  • Antetokounmpo wasted no time in starting to rave about the Heat culture, a phrase that has become a lightning rod for criticism from talking heads around the NBA — especially after the franchise slapped the word across shirts and jerseys.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 14 Oct. 2026
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  • The program also provides support for five Moroccan short films in post-production—four fiction and one documentary—selected from among 24 submissions.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 19 Oct. 2026
  • Jacob Misiorowski had committed to LSU when the Brewers selected the hard-throwing right-hander out of Crowder College in Neosho, Missouri, in the second round of the 2022 draft.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 17 Oct. 2026
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  • The developmental flight test marked a significant step because the RIG-360 system and a PAC-3 missile communicated with each other during flight.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Tuesday’s civil court hearing marked the first time Avery and Gonzalez appeared in court together since her arrest.
    — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Consumers’ expectations about the pace of future price hikes are closely tracked by the Federal Reserve.
    — Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Using a form of spectroscopy, the team then tracked changes in the electrons' energies over trillionths of a second.
    — Sven Badoux, New Atlas, 23 Oct. 2026
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  • Ivan Bates, who slammed the inability to get justice for the family, also addressed juvenile accountability in his new Beyond the Status Quo podcast with DJS Secretary Betsy Fox Tolentino.
    — Mike Hellgren, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Trump has also waived sanctions on Russia, a move which Zelenskyy slammed as helping Putin push on with Moscow’s full-scale invasion, which will hit the five-year mark in February.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 20 Oct. 2026
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  • The property later passed through several notable hands, including Creative Artists Agency (CAA) co-chairman Kevin Huvane and filmmaker Roberto Sneider, before Channing Tatum picked it up for $6 million in 2015, according to Variety.
    — Michael Gioia, Architectural Digest, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Kansas was picked to finish fifth in the Big 12 preseason poll; the highest finish of the Schneider era was fifth place in 2021-22.
    — PJ Green October 21, Kansas City Star, 21 Oct. 2026

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“Tagged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tagged. Accessed 26 Oct. 2026.

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