TOGGLED Synonyms: 76 Similar and Opposite Words

toggled

verb

past tense of toggle

as in tied

to fasten with a device in which a small piece of wood, plastic, metal, etc. is pushed through a loop or hole toggled his duffel coat closed

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Recent Examples of toggled As the story became an international sensation, theories toggled between the preposterous and the merely unlikely. — Jon Wertheim, CBS News, 20 Sep. 2026 When toggled on, the system must completely shut down its internal brevity algorithms, ignore corporate formatting templates, and allocate the necessary computing power to follow the user's explicit structural constraints to the letter. — New Atlas, 4 Sep. 2026 Inside the office, producers toggled dials in a control room that looked out onto a vast studio. — Cora Engelbrecht, New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2026 Output still contains SynthID and C2PA Content Credentials, two types of digital watermarking that aren't perceptible under normal circumstances and cannot be toggled off. — Will McCurdy, PC Magazine, 15 Aug. 2026 For the past couple months, the Baumer family has toggled between grief and hope as Christina embraced the final months of her life. — Maggie Menderski, Louisville Courier Journal, 13 Aug. 2026 In his place Wednesday, the Vikings toggled with multiple personnel groupings. — Alec Lewis, New York Times, 30 July 2026 The only exceptions were made for users whose profiles were already set to private and users under 18 whose sharing and reuse settings were toggled off by default. — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 10 July 2026 Make sure cell phone emergency alerts are toggled on. — Donna Vickroy, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2026

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Know More The dispute became public earlier this year as Washington sought to negotiate new health agreements with African governments that tied US assistance to commitments on health systems, data and other areas.

— Yinka Adegoke, semafor.com, 25 Sep. 2026
Its analysis found that 74% of those mentions were tied to real-world projects rather than coursework, an indication students are trying to demonstrate their applied experience.

— Corynn Winston, CNBC, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of tied

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As the recording played, with Davis recounting seeing the ambulance that was carrying the rapper, Shakur’s sister clenched her left hand against her mouth.

— Taylor Romine, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026
Clad in the world champion’s rainbows, Evenepoel clenched both his fists, beamed a toothy grin, and hugged his soigneur.

— Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 22 July 2026

Definition of clenched

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Instead, metal strips showing the current registration were fastened atop the existing plate.

— Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2026
The splintered timbers, fastened together by rusted iron, emerged near an area where remains believed to be from the Warren Sawyer, a wooden schooner lost in 1884, have been found before.

— CBS News, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of fastened

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With the Atlanta Braves’ loss to the Cincinnati Reds earlier in the day, the Dodgers clinched the second seed in the National League playoffs and the first-round bye that goes with it.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026
The Chicago White Sox, who lost 324 games over the previous three seasons, were celebrating following a 9-1 win over the Royals that clinched their postseason spot.

— Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of clinched

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Davis stood with his lawyer as the verdict was read, then sat with his hands clasped on the table.

— Jon Haworth, ABC News, 1 Sep. 2026
In a 1987 article for the New York Times, Albuquerque jewelry salesman Manny Goodman recalls seeing Native Americans wearing bandanas clasped with silver conches as early as the 1930s.

— Paige Moore, AZCentral.com, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of clasped

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The mural in question is pasted along the side of the Jolly Colliers Pub building in Bedminster, Bristol.

— Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 24 Sep. 2026
Thin partitions marked an early attempt to slice the space into smaller rooms, but the original brick walls remained bare, shivering with cobwebs, where someone had pasted a picture of a man, holy hands bracketing a redbrick heart.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2026

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