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past tense of test

tested

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adjective

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of tested
Verb
The End Kidney Deaths Act finally offers a tested and reasonable solution. Lindsay Gutierrez, Baltimore Sun, 13 May 2025 But beyond those elite few prospects, why would coaches play or pay freshmen instead of the veterans, the tested and proven Division I players, now available in what amounts to forever free agency? Cj Moore, The Athletic, 25 July 2024
Adjective
During an internal investigation, the company discovered that the wipes tested positive for Pluralibacter gergoviae, a type of bacteria resistant to preservatives in many personal care products. Amber Brenza, Health, 20 Oct. 2025 The technology is in the early stages—Orta hasn’t tested the fabric yet in laundries but plans to explore the concept further. Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 20 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for tested
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tested
Verb
  • In the past, the federal government audited and sampled state data without collecting and centralizing applicants' personal information.
    Jude Joffe-Block, NPR, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Editors sampled the mustards side by side, scoring them on taste, texture, and overall experience using a scale from 1 to 5, with 1 being the lowest and 5 being the highest.
    Melinda Salchert, Southern Living, 11 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In recent years, some Wyandotte residents have tried to get the government to delay or cancel its tax sales, which usually happen twice a year, to prevent people who have struggled to pay sky-rocketing property tax bills from losing their family homes.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Senate Democrats, joined by two Republicans, tried unsuccessfully last week to pass a resolution to stop the strikes, saying Trump is illegally using military force without lawmakers' permission.
    Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA Today, 18 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Frankenstein's monster is a tortured fellow who's not a big fan of flames.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Despite appearances to the contrary—the swirling sentences, the feverish intellection—there is nothing hermetic about Krasznahorkai’s work, both old and new, which squarely faces contemporary European reality and its perils, including the tortured dynamics of settlement, movement, and identity.
    James Wood, New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Leslie's murder went cold for years until two new detectives re-examined the evidence in 2022.
    Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Since the nineties, a number of studies have examined the long-term impacts of starvation on fetuses in the womb.
    Clayton Dalton, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Tight fabrics like leggings, T-shirts, yoga pants or any fabric that is stretched against your skin, aren’t stopping mosquitoes to poke through.
    Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 15 Oct. 2025
  • All of this lands on a middle class already stretched thin.
    Katica Roy, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Vesia had replaced Glasnow after a two-out walk in the top of the sixth pushed the starter’s pitch count to 99.
    Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Changes to the college game have been pushed for the better part of three decades by NCAA coaches, to no avail.
    Luke Cyphers, Sportico.com, 16 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • So what exactly got the studio so hot and bothered?
    Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Despite his status as a pop culture icon for close to 50 years now, ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic has claimed he’s not terribly bothered about being overlooked by the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
    Tyler Jenke, Billboard, 14 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The Broncos beat up, bruised, harassed and downright punished Herbert from the start.
    Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Some writers who criticized Taylor Swift reported that they and their family members had been threatened, harassed, and doxed.
    Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025

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“Tested.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tested. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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