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 Masks and boots can now also be toggled on and off by pressing the direction pad up or down. — Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 5 Nov. 2026 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 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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Worth Girvan and Gaspar were virtually tied on election night Tuesday, but on Thursday Worth Girvan began pulling ahead as more mail-in ballots were counted.

— Itzel Luna, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2026
Wear them around your neck, in your hair, or simply tied onto the handle of your bag.

— Kate Donovan, Southern Living, 7 Nov. 2026

Definition of tied

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Parents rushing to a reunification center, hearts clenched with the hope of finding their children among the survivors.

— Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2026
All of the grandeur and energy of Pollock’s looping brambles and cords are clenched in Krasner’s versions.

— Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of clenched

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Rhodes hit Orton with multiple Cross Rhodes and Orton’s head clipped the side of the steel steps that Rhodes had pushed into the ring.

— Ryan Gaydos OutKick, FOXNews.com, 7 Nov. 2026
In second-half stoppage time, Maiara Niehues clipped Cooper’s heel and knocked off her cleat.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2026

Definition of clipped

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Kate fastened three red poppies to her coat alongside the HMS Glasgow Brooch, a sterling silver piece specially commissioned by Glasgow jeweler James Porter & Son in 2025 to mark her role as sponsor of the Royal Navy warship.

— Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 8 Nov. 2026
Pilots still ask passengers to keep their seat belts fastened while seated, and no one doubts the captain for saying so.

— Amanda Connelly, Forbes.com, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of fastened

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Soto, who has Puerto Rican heritage, likely would have clinched his re-election bid easily in his formerly Hispanic-majority district.

— Annie Martin, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Nov. 2026
Abdul El-Sayed may have clinched a historic victory in Michigan, but his tense exchange with a Sky News reporter on election night is not winning him supporters in the UK.

— Jake Kanter, Deadline, 4 Nov. 2026

Definition of clinched

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Brand, who stood as the sentence was handed down, did not react although his wife Laura Gallacher clasped her hands and was supported by friends.

— Ellise Shafer, Variety, 9 Nov. 2026
Embiid appeared to wonder during the national anthem where the Knicks' championship banner was hanging in the rafters as James sat nearby on the bench with his head bowed and hands clasped.

— CBS News, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of clasped

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O'Brien and Bashir were digitally pasted over the original actors in the former, while the latter was explained away by Sisko and Dax's madcap dash to find the elusive explosive tribble.

— Richard Edwards, Space.com, 4 Nov. 2026
The Wikimedia Foundation is also working on a tool called Paste Check, which can flag text pasted directly from some AI chatbots.

— Eliza Strickland, IEEE Spectrum, 21 Oct. 2026

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