wait-listed

Definition of wait-listednext
past tense of wait-list

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wait-listed
Verb
  • Balaraman was still a toddler when she was enrolled to run in a 400-meter race near her family’s past home in Santa Clarita.
    gqlshare, Daily News, 28 May 2026
  • Roughly 40 percent of full-time undergraduates work while enrolled, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, often balancing employment with demanding academic schedules.
    Marvin Krislov, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
Verb
  • Lendeborg played his first three college seasons in junior college at Arizona Western, broke into Division I with two years at UAB, then finally matriculated to the Big Ten last season.
    Brendan Marks, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2026
  • At his college graduation, Charlie had been awarded the Lionel de Jersey Harvard Scholarship for graduate study at Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, where John Harvard had matriculated in 1627.
    John McPhee, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
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“Wait-listed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wait-listed. Accessed 4 Jun. 2026.

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