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wedded

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verb

variants also wed
past tense of wed
1
as in espoused
to give in marriage the king wished to wed his favorite daughter to the bravest knight in the realm

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2
as in mated
to perform the ceremony of marriage for the priest usually weds six to eight couples a month

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3
as in coupled
to take a spouse she swore that she would never wed

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4
as in proposed
to take as a spouse a true romantic, he intends to wed her on Valentine's Day

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Recent Examples of wedded
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The second is a return to Sangiovese in its purest form, with estates not already wedded to international varieties retreating in favour of a more Tuscan identity. Paul Caputo, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026 Hsueh said that gold prices became more firmly wedded to the outlook for Fed rate policy starting around the the middle of May, and less tied to the correlation to energy prices that had prevailed since the start of the Iran war. Deena Zaidi, CNBC, 22 June 2026 That’s not because the drug didn’t work or was found to be unsafe, Sikiric said, but because the people at GSK were wedded to their own projects. Sara Talpos — Undark, STAT, 1 June 2026 These are filmmakers who became wedded to the idea of going to hell and back. Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 22 May 2026 Braun told these hatchlings that they were too wedded to script, and needed to learn how to let sound tell the story. Literary Hub, 20 May 2026 The startup’s new partnership with Mastercard lets Rain target larger institutions who are already wedded to one payments network, Farooq Malik, cofounder and CEO, told Fortune. Ben Weiss, Fortune, 4 May 2026 Pressing aggressively, in the way that Arsenal did at the Etihad, won’t work every week because few teams will be as wedded to playing out from the back as City — something that was to the home side’s detriment on Sunday, when Gianluigi Donnarumma conceded a farcical goal. Stuart James, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2026 Meanwhile, Russia continues to be wedded to a method of war that relies on attrition, scale and firepower. Yuliya Talmazan, NBC news, 29 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wedded
Adjective
  • As of 2019, Fred was married to Rona Davis, a New York City real estate broker, per Billboard.
    Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 22 June 2026
  • Davis was married twice, to Helen Cohen from 1956-65 and to Janet Adelberg from 1965-85.
    Jennifer Frederick, HollywoodReporter, 22 June 2026
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  • In the special, Arcuri tackles topics like marital pranks and urinal mind games while contending, on the more serious side, with his wife Katie Thurston’s cancer journey.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 24 June 2026
  • Prosecutors also alleged King fathered a child through an extra-marital affair and threatened the child’s mother to keep quiet.
    Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 June 2026

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“Wedded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wedded. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.

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