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 In his place Wednesday, the Vikings toggled with multiple personnel groupings. — Alec Lewis, New York Times, 30 July 2026 Microsoft says some modern enhancements to the titles can be toggled on. — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 22 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 Prior to Swalwell, Democrats toggled between former Orange County Congresswoman Katie Porter and billionaire Tom Steyer. — Matt Fleming, Oc Register, 27 May 2026 While Adebayo is a fixture in the Heat’s starting lineup, Ware has toggled between starting alongside Adebayo and playing as the backup center off the bench in his second NBA season. — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 15 Apr. 2026 Even when toggled off, users across all account levels, including Free, Basic and Premium, will still see video advertisements, including Canvas loop-like ads. — Greta Cross, USA Today, 9 Apr. 2026 An impressive revolving stage, which displayed both the exterior of the bank and the bland lobby inside, toggled smoothly between scenes. — Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for toggled
  1. tied
  2. clenched
  3. clipped
  4. glued
  5. fastened
  6. clinched
  7. clasped
  8. pasted
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  • Citizen Bank Park’s 116 park factor for home runs since 2025 ranks tied for fourth.
    — Josh Shepardson, Forbes.com, 3 Aug. 2026
  • The New Mexico Office of the Medical Investigator later determined the newborn died by homicide, finding that the child died from entrapment after being placed and tied inside a plastic trash bag beneath bloody paper towels and other garbage.
    — Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 2 Aug. 2026
Definition of tied
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  • 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
  • The White House Key Facts A rendering of the passport shared by the White House on Friday shows Trump presumably leaning over the Resolute Desk, fists clenched, alongside his signature and text from the Declaration of Independence.
    — Antonio Pequeño IV, Forbes.com, 27 June 2026
Definition of clenched
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  • The second worker was clipped in the jaw by a misfiring nail gun.
    — Kevin Kruse, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
  • The busy section of road had been closed since July 13, when a truck traveling east clipped the underside of the span.
    — Joseph Flaherty, Arkansas Online, 30 July 2026
Definition of clipped
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  • Garden Art Wine corks can be glued together with a hot glue gun to create decorative birdhouses and wreaths to display in the garden.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 29 Apr. 2026
Definition of glued
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  • The screaming engine bounced under a rusty white hood that appeared to be fastened in place by a bungee cord.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 31 July 2026
  • The memorial has a bronze marker fastened to the marble wall.
    — Michael Goldstein, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
Definition of fastened
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  • Affleck and Ding clinched the win on a challenging Thanksgiving trivia question.
    — Mason Leib, ABC News, 30 July 2026
  • Rogers, which operates pay-TV network Sportsnet, last year clinched an $11 billion rights deal with the NHL through the 2037-38 season.
    — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 28 July 2026
Definition of clinched
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  • In 1975, as Cold War tensions thawed, an American commander and his Soviet counterpart clasped hands in space after their spacecraft docked.
    — Fred Weir, Christian Science Monitor, 31 July 2026
  • This gadget from the comics is typically depicted as a metal collar clasped around a mutant’s neck.
    — Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 31 July 2026
Definition of clasped
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  • Along the streets in the shadow of the cathedral, posters for Hind Rajab, the five-year-old girl allegedly killed by Israel in Gaza, have been pasted to lamp posts.
    — Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 29 July 2026
  • Before policies were in place, employees pasted client data into ChatGPT, fed proprietary code into public models and uploaded meeting recordings without a second thought.
    — Dmitriy Stepanov, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
Definition of pasted

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