1
as in empowered
to give official or legal power to
"By the power vested in me by the state," intoned the minister, "I now pronounce that you are married"
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as in handed
to put (something) into the possession or safekeeping of another
vested the power to access their retirement accounts with their attorney
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as in granted
to give the ownership or benefit of (something) formally or publicly
the U.S. Constitution vests the power to declare war with Congress
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as in invested
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Recent Examples of vested
Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 1 Oct. 2025
Proponents saw them as a way to ensure Alaskans maintained a vested interest in the Alaska Permanent Fund.
—Becky Bohrer, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2025
Bloomberg, Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2025
Its day-to-day management is vested in other hands.
—Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2025
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Verb
Trump seems to have a vested interest in competing with China, increasing domestic manufacturing and securing favorable deals in negotiations with other countries.
—Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 1 Oct. 2025
Proponents saw them as a way to ensure Alaskans maintained a vested interest in the Alaska Permanent Fund.
—Becky Bohrer, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2025
Adjective
Prior Plan Tesla investors in 2018 voted to award Musk a package of stock options that vested upon meeting certain milestones widely viewed at the time as moonshots.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2025
Its day-to-day management is vested in other hands.
—Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for vested
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As the stagehands began to transport instruments and equipment inside, thousands headed to their next destination, enlightened, empowered, and most importantly, entertained.—
DeMicia Inman,
VIBE.com,
17 Oct. 2025
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Some are empowered and evolved and some are truncated and lost.—
Stephen Schaefer,
Boston Herald,
14 Oct. 2025
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The Herald spoke to six men in Mexico and lawyers for six other deportees who say the Department of Homeland Security drove them in buses to the southern border and handed them over to authorities in Mexico.—
Syra Ortiz-Blanes,
Miami Herald,
21 Oct. 2025
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By then, the preeminent fashion genius of the third quarter of the 20th century and the designer so often credited with inventing the modern woman’s wardrobe had handed prêt-à-porter over to his assistants, who clung as if by commandment to the house dogma of bourgeois Parisian elegance.—
Rob Haskell,
Vogue,
20 Oct. 2025
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Of those requests, the agency granted 170,084 exclusions and denied 59,134, with 44,325 exclusion requests rejected or withdrawn during the process.—
Zach Halaschak,
The Washington Examiner,
26 Oct. 2025
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The pair dug a lot of the holes this program finds itself in right now, granted.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
26 Oct. 2025
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In other news, the company has also unveiled a prototype of AI-enabled smart glasses for its delivery drivers.—
Abhishek Bhardwaj,
Interesting Engineering,
23 Oct. 2025
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Intransigence has been enabled for too long.—
Boston Herald editorial staff,
Boston Herald,
23 Oct. 2025
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The newspaper was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for public service in 1941 for its campaign, the first time that a major award was conferred for an environmental story.—
Robert Wyss,
The Conversation,
21 Oct. 2025
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The parties have conferred with Mishkin for months without reaching common ground.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
20 Oct. 2025
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Christian has relied on Medicaid to pay for the home health nurses and caregivers to maneuver the device to get from the bed to his wheelchair, showered, clothed and fed.—
Beth Warren,
Nashville Tennessean,
19 Aug. 2025
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Funding for the purchase will come from bond proceeds that were authorized via a 2022 referendum.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
22 Oct. 2025
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That changed after Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti issued legal opinions in 1980 and 1981 stating that agencies must cease operations during a lapse unless funding is authorized.—
Amanda Castro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
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Bachmeier went through spring ball at Stanford, but transferred to BYU, along with his brother Tiger, after the firing of Cardinal coach Troy Taylor.—
Mitch Sherman,
New York Times,
26 Oct. 2025
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The improvements in that technology transferred to the health industry, enabling smaller, less expensive infrared devices for a number of medical applications such as handheld ear thermometers used at home and sophisticated instruments used to detect cancers.—
Michele Raphael,
USA Today,
24 Oct. 2025
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“Vested.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vested. Accessed 27 Oct. 2025.
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