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past tense of tick (off)

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verb (2)

past tense of tick off

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Recent Examples of ticked (off)
Verb
In the meeting, May and agency staffers ticked off a number of problems with Citation’s wells that regulators had overlooked for years. — Nick Bowlin, ProPublica, 27 Oct. 2026 That same month, the Hilton Reum family ticked off another milestone when London and Phoenix skied for the first time at Yellowstone. — Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 26 Oct. 2026 Markos, understandably ticked off (and somehow aware that Corey had told Matt that Mia was taken), takes out all his toxic masculine rage on Matt’s gorgeous face, carving him up and leaving him to deal with it. — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 21 Oct. 2026 Loran was ticked off by Lichtenstein’s Portrait of Madame Cézanne (1963), a painting that borrowed Loran’s own diagram analyzing the Paul Cézanne work of the same name. — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 7 Oct. 2026 Blaney, ticked off after finishing 33rd following a crash that resulted from contact with Hocevar’s car, took a couple of swings at Hocevar. — Ryan Canfield Outkick, FOXNews.com, 29 Sep. 2026 With eight games left in the regular season, the Dodgers already have ticked off the most important boxes on their to-do list for the postseason. — Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2026 The final seconds of the first half ticked off as the Spartans took a 10-7 lead on a 45-yard field goal from kicker Trajan Sinatra. — Niles Hall, Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2026 With Liam Delap close to completing an initial £45million move from Chelsea, Nottingham Forest have ticked off another major box with the addition of a striker with physical presence and high potential. — Mario Cortegana, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ticked (off)
Verb
  • The coroner listed the cause of death as measles, state health officials said.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 6 Nov. 2026
  • He was listed on the injury report for this week’s home game against the New York Jets but was a full participant in practice on Thursday.
    — Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 6 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • Jokic admonished Nuggets fans for booing Saturday night in the home opener after the Nuggets fell behind 23 points before storming back for a 141-135 OT win against New Orleans.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 27 Oct. 2026
  • The restrictions emerged just days after Trump admonished Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the press, calling on the leader to step down and hold wartime elections.
    — Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 15 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The trail’s California Environmental Quality Act exemption has angered an array of people.
    — Pedro Moura, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2026
  • Soon, other aggrieved groups—farmers, trade unionists, climate activists, yellow-vest protesters angered by rising costs—joined in, and the demonstrations that followed quickly became some of France’s most widespread and explosive since 1968.
    — Maurice Samuels, New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Once Walsh and Colton recited their vows and were officially declared husband and wife, their attendants sent a parachute announcing the news to the people on the ground.
    — Erin Clack, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2026
  • As Margaritora led the procedure, Gemelli’s medical staff recited the rosary prayer in the hospital chapel.
    — Freddie Clayton, NBC news, 17 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • In a social media poll Wednesday afternoon, Mary Talley Bowden—a dejected MAHA activist, anti-vaccine advocate, and doctor reprimanded for prescribing ivermectin to treat COVID-19—polled her followers about what should come next.
    — Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 5 Nov. 2026
  • Mandell was later formally reprimanded for allowing another client’s hearing to be delayed by six years, during which time two witnesses died.
    — Samantha Melamed, ProPublica, 13 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The decision has infuriated Democrats and threatened the party’s path to winning a Senate majority.
    — Francesca Ebel, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2026
  • The decision infuriated Democrats who had been pressing the two candidates to present a united front ahead of Election Day.
    — Barnini Chakraborty, The Washington Examiner, 1 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • Abe doesn’t like that Erin scolded him at his party about spilling his drink and not helping with the kids, and Erin is frustrated that none of her children will listen to her.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2026
  • For example, just recently, Musk publicly scolded the CEO of Delta in a scorching post on X when the airline did not partner with Starlink to provide Wi-Fi on Delta flights.
    — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Steven Tian, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • After the release of the Pentagon Papers, which was a secret history of the Vietnam War compiled by figures in the Johnson administration, Richard Nixon is enraged.
    — Dustin DeSoto, Vox, 30 Oct. 2026
  • The August meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky enraged many senior Russian officials.
    — Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 27 Oct. 2026

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“Ticked (off).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ticked%20%28off%29. Accessed 8 Nov. 2026.

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