injected

verb

past tense of inject
as in inserted
to put among or between others injected one more comment into the body of the text

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Recent Examples of injected Some people injected the peptides into muscle instead of the arm or belly fat, which could alter how quickly the drugs reach the bloodstream. — C. Michael White, The Conversation, 7 Aug. 2026 Lebson and Richards ⁠denied that ​allegation, saying that Robert Gilman was held in extremely harsh conditions, tortured and injected with mind-altering drugs by guards, treatment ​that led to his transfer to the civilian hospital. — Reuters, NBC news, 7 Aug. 2026 The team injected compute into the tooling across its manufacturing chain and wired Vector through the whole process, so the system understands each design, drives it through production and feeds ground-truth data back in to get smarter over time. — John Koetsier, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026 The way coaches work and develop kids in college, more of that needs to be injected here. — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Aug. 2026 The $1 million prize and the presence of singles stars last year injected life into an event that was previously an afterthought. — Lev Akabas, Sportico.com, 5 Aug. 2026 Scott was murdered in front of the building that houses the Bereshit Lifestyle Center, where Elizabeth Baron, 27, went into cardiac arrest just the day before after being injected with NAD+, a trendy anti-aging treatment. — Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 3 Aug. 2026 Just prior to deploying the cyborg roach, the team injected a bit of diluted hydrogen peroxide into the tank and sealed it to prevent leakage. — ArsTechnica, 3 Aug. 2026 Carbon storage from corn It is then injected underground in deep geological storage vessels. — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 2 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for injected
  1. inserted
  2. introduced
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  • As a result, the Royals inserted Luke Maile behind the plate to finish the night.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Jabbour said an endovascular cerebrospinal fluid shunt, or E-shunt, is threaded into the brain with a catheter that's inserted through the groin.
    — Stephanie Stahl, CBS News, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of inserted
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  • Ross, Oscar, and Persephone were all metagamers who weren’t introduced to each other, and who had to make silly faces throughout the game, then point each other out based on the face-pulling, which Oscar and Sephi both successfully do.
    — Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 11 Aug. 2026
  • She was raised in Pasadena and was introduced to the music of such artists as Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne, Hank Williams, the Pretenders, and Neil Young through her family’s extensive vinyl record collection.
    — Laura Payne, Encyclopedia Britannica, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of introduced

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