THRASHED (OUT) Synonyms: 51 Similar and Opposite Words

thrashed (out)

verb

past tense of thrash (out)

as in developed

to produce or bring about especially by long or repeated effort after hours of brainstorming, the writers finally thrashed out an extended story arc for the sitcom

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Questions remain about how many people developed health problems linked to the dust.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 12 Sep. 2026
The technology is also being developed with manufacturability in mind.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 12 Sep. 2026

Definition of developed

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Those relationships are forged on the anvil of professionalism.

— Justin Davidson, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2026
Capen’s colleague at the time, Baptist Health South Florida Executive Vice President and CAO Joe Natoli, continued a friendship with the former publisher that was forged in newsrooms and Miami’s changing streets.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of forged

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He feels emotionally ambushed, and what plays out is as if Marriage Story were an absolute chucklefest, as Lestat gets increasingly worked up and jealous over Louis’s relationships with other men.

— Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 15 June 2026
Church’s numinous-sun-over-still-water routine had begun to look a bit like a shtick, equally applicable to scenes of the Hudson or those worked up from 20-year-old sketches of South America.

— Susan Tallman, The Atlantic, 13 June 2026

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The use of chemical weapons would add to mounting human rights abuses and atrocities by both sides in a war that has created the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.

— Lauren Morganbesser, semafor.com, 6 Sep. 2026
In May 2020, Naming the Lost, a public art project, created temporary memorials to casualties in all five boroughs.

— Robert W. Snyder, New York Daily News, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of created

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In 2011, former Time Warner Cable executives hammered out the 20-year agreement with the Lakers, then owned by the late Jerry Buss.

— Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2026
In April, Williams hammered out a two-year extension that pushed off retirement talk and let the 49ers focus elsewhere in the draft instead of splurging on a replacement.

— Cam Inman, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of hammered out

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The artwork is crafted in the shape of a phoenix, an immortal, mythological bird that dies in flames before being reborn from the ashes.

— ABC News, ABC News, 11 Sep. 2026
Based in Norfolk, Virginia, the duo behind Art & Forge has crafted an entire ecosystem around hardware.

— Lori Keong, Architectural Digest, 10 Sep. 2026

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