termed 1 of 2

past tense of term

termed

2 of 2

adjective

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Recent Examples of termed
Adjective
Third-party nationals, as non-EU citizens are termed, are only allowed to spend 90 out of every 180 days in the bloc. Julia Buckley, CNN Money, 10 Oct. 2025 Both projects were organized to determine if the 68 percent of all mass and energy, collectively termed dark matter, originates from a pure cosmological constant. Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 1 Oct. 2025 Each became part of the political and historical phenomenon termed the balsero crisis, so named for the balsas, or makeshift rafts, that carried the refugees out into the Florida Straits. Miriam Pensack, The Dial, 30 Sep. 2025 The California Democrat is widely expected to run for president in 2028 after he is termed out of state office next year. Lia Russell, Sacbee.com, 24 Sep. 2025 He’s termed out at the end of this year. Miami Herald, 20 Sep. 2025 One additional tax to be aware of is what’s termed a wealth tax. Kathleen Peddicord, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025 However, instead of dedicated keys, leaping is merely a part of THE's internal command line, termed the Humane Quasimode, where other commands can be sent. Cameron Kaiser, ArsTechnica, 12 Sep. 2025 Environmental scientists have already termed this project a ‘vanity height’ construction – building far beyond practicality merely for record-breaking purposes. Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 11 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for termed
Verb
  • The incident on Saturday morning began when Oakland police were called about person who had broken into a home on the 11000 block of Ettrick Street, in a hills neighborhood near the Oakland Zoo.
    Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 20 Oct. 2025
  • What used to be a popular burger spot in this small North Carolina town has transformed into a go-to destination for real-deal Mexican street food called Tacos Oaxaca.
    Natalie Hoy, Southern Living, 19 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The two were falsely named as recruits to the university's crew team, even though neither ever participated in the sport, including posing for photos of themselves working out using crew machines.
    Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
  • And with Crosby being an Eastern Michigan alum and having grown up a Lions fan, the dots seemingly connect themselves, which is why Bleacher Report’s Moe Moton named the Lions as one of the frontrunners to trade for the 28-year-old edge-rusher.
    MSNBC Newsweek, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • This is the uniform in which DesRochers greets me at the nucleus of her sprawling entrepreneurial pursuits that are dubbed The Gratitude Collective, her brick home sitting high atop a hill in Avondale.
    Grace Tucker, Cincinnati Enquirer, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Researchers from Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s Tsung-Dao Lee Institute conducted the sea trial of a device dubbed the Subsea Precision Instrument Deployer with Elastic Releasing (Spider).
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Containers not properly labeled.
    Gege Reed, Louisville Courier Journal, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The whole field was turning into an ideological battleground between proponents of experimental physics, which became known as Deutsche Physik, and theoretical physics, labeled Jüdische Physik.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Ticketholders can check in at the location designated on their ticket the day of the events.
    Angelika Ytuarte, jsonline.com, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Hairston was designated to return from IR and began his 21-day practice window on Monday, but this latest update puts him on track to potentially rejoin the lineup ahead of Buffalo's Week 8 road test against the Carolina Panthers.
    Rowan Fisher-Shotton, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The streamer has greenlit a series, titled Kennedy, that will star Michael Fassbender as patriarch Joseph Kennedy Sr.
    Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 20 Oct. 2025
  • And no — because strictly speaking there is no Electric Nebraska per se, notwithstanding Springsteen’s equivocations on the point (as reported in this magazine) and the fact that one disc in this five-disc set is titled Electric Nebraska.
    Will Hermes, Rolling Stone, 19 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Trump nominated him in May to lead the office of special counsel, but his appointment was postponed.
    Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Gracie Abrams’s concert from the iconic Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado will be broadcast exclusively on Apple Music Live, beginning Wednesday, Oct 29.
    Jem Aswad, Variety, 20 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Now, the first category is anything denominated in a currency.
    Alex Crippen, CNBC, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Like LemFi, Kredete is rolling out user bank accounts denominated in euros and dollars.
    Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 15 Sep. 2025

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“Termed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/termed. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.

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