traded

past tense of trade

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Recent Examples of traded As the weather cools and pool parties and cookouts are traded for football tailgates and pumpkin patches, why not add a concert to the mix? Deasia Paige, AJC.com, 21 Sep. 2026 The teams traded turnovers midway through the quarter as Jenkins threw his first interception of the season. Matt Murschel, The Orlando Sentinel, 20 Sep. 2026 Ernie Accorsi, a legendary New York Giants front office executive who helped build the roster that made it to Super Bowl XXXV and traded for Eli Manning, has died, the team said. Ryan Gaydos Outkick, FOXNews.com, 20 Sep. 2026 Photo by Rich Graessle/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Accorsi was in charge when New York hired Tom Coughlin as coach and traded for quarterback Eli Manning after the Chargers took him with the first pick in the 2004 draft. Cbs New York Team, CBS News, 20 Sep. 2026 In 2009, the Sun traded star Lindsay Whalen to the Lynx, a most painful moment for Thibault. Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 20 Sep. 2026 When Patrick Kane was traded to the New York Rangers in February 2023, some recent Chicago Blackhawks players missed a chance to play alongside the franchise great. Kalen Lumpkins, Chicago Tribune, 19 Sep. 2026 This deal, covering Southeast Asia’s largest economy and 280 million people, eliminates tariffs on 98 percent of goods traded between the two. Jonas Nahm, Foreign Affairs, 14 Sep. 2026 The rising concerns over the safety of AI hit the stocks of chipmakers, however, which are publicly traded. ABC News, 14 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for traded
Verb
  • Abby meanwhile was killed in the upstairs guest bedroom, but hit first on the side of the head before being dealt a total of 17 blows.
    Chris Spargo, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2026
  • But, by then, Santiago had already gone on with his life, moving to Florida and having a family of his own while Vicchitto dealt for decades with the emotional scars, officials said.
    Rebecca White, New York Daily News, 18 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • McConnell exchanged passes with Mac Allister before progressing the ball forward to Ngumoha.
    Andy Jones, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Americans in the 1960s knew Francis Gary Powers as the CIA pilot of a secret U-2 spy plane shot down in 1960 over Soviet Russia, who was exchanged in a prisoner swap in 1962, during the peak of the Cold War.
    Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • White real estate agents also averaged $1,998,000 in annual sales volume, the total dollar amount of property sold by an agent, whereas Black agents averaged $474,500 in sales volume.
    Michael Butler, Miami Herald, 21 Sep. 2026
  • The special-edition collaboration will be sold direct-to-consumer until supplies last.
    Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 21 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Ever since, the two teams have swapped victories each season, with Kiffin stoking the flames.
    Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Swig said the majority of Miatas sell for $10,000 to $20,000 on average and there is a lot of interest in models that had the original inline four-cylinder engine swapped for a V8.
    Morgan Korn, ABC News, 13 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • But there was this other documentary series filming there that had negotiated for exclusive rights to film at Burning Man for, like, two or three years.
    Andrew Marantz, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026
  • But this is the second consecutive offseason Duren has negotiated for a new deal, and those attempts, thus far, have proven futile.
    Hunter Patterson, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Koumas did not stop running until he was substituted after 82 minutes, harrying and harassing the experienced centre-back duo of Marco Senesi and Tosin Adarabioyo while also providing an outlet.
    Andy Jones, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Mila Kunis served as guest host on July 29, while Pamela Adlon substituted on July 30 and Scott Foley on July 31.
    Yamillah Hurtado, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The authors of the current study took a different route, examining whether the theorem could survive when the mathematical description of probability changed.
    Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 19 Sep. 2026
  • That changed in 2013, when a small, dark body orbiting between Saturn and Uranus passed in front of a star and blinked twice on either side of the main event, revealing two narrow rings around an object barely 250 kilometers across.
    Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 19 Sep. 2026

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“Traded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/traded. Accessed 22 Sep. 2026.

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