Thesaurus results for PASTED

pasted

verb

past tense of paste

as in whipped

to defeat by a large margin with the economy having gone south, it was hardly surprising that the incumbent party got pasted in the general election

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as in slapped

to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner pasted the soccer ball halfway across the field

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Recent Examples of pasted Along the streets in the shadow of the cathedral, posters for Hind Rajab, the five-year-old girl allegedly killed by Israel in Gaza, have been pasted to lamp posts. — Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 29 July 2026 Before policies were in place, employees pasted client data into ChatGPT, fed proprietary code into public models and uploaded meeting recordings without a second thought. — Dmitriy Stepanov, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026 One of the best-selling nonfiction titles of 2014, Hard Choices runs to more than 600 pages, many of which consist of factoids copied and pasted from Clinton’s old speeches. — Matthew Walther, The Atlantic, 20 July 2026 Whether stowed in a recipe tin, pasted in a book, or safely tucked away in a memory, family recipes are part of what makes cooking so special. — Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 2 July 2026 There is always a new poster ready to be pasted. — Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 26 June 2026 Online job listings have become so formulaic — copy-pasted from old descriptions and bloated with internal jargon — that even strong candidates scroll past them without a second look. — Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 23 June 2026 On top of all this, Apple says the warnings will definitely pop up if a command that’s been pasted in Terminal is known to be malicious. — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 7 May 2026 While traditional wallpaper is meticulously pasted to a wall, peel-and-stick attaches quickly with an adhesive backing. — Shagun Khare, Martha Stewart, 16 Apr. 2026

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Arcila scored with a right-footed shot from the center of the box in the 50th, then whipped the go-ahead goal past Óscar García for his fourth goal of the tournament.

— CBS News, CBS News, 13 Aug. 2026
The bullet apparently whipped across the cab and struck Salgado in the stomach.

— Stephania Taladrid, New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of whipped

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Later in the series, Shah finds himself getting slapped in the face.

— Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 12 Aug. 2026
Slapping and/or being slapped was one of Oliver’s handful of requests for his soap opera appearance, along with playing a character with a ridiculous name, and wearing an equally ridiculous wig.

— Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 11 Aug. 2026

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That’s because this onetime refuge of Pablo Picasso was bombed to hell less than three weeks before the official end of the Second World War.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2026
In its kinetic war, the US has mostly bombed southern Iran, with more than 1,000 targets hit last month alone.

— semafor.com, semafor.com, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of bombed

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Two people who saw the surveillance video recognized the man who punched Wilson as Harris, and one knew him from previous assaults in the area, the complaint said.

— Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 13 Aug. 2026
By Wednesday, Carter said, fallen branches had punched several holes through roofs across the campus, including the administration building.

— Lila Hempel-Edgers, Chicago Tribune, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of punched

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New-lease trade-outs, which measure the change in rent when a new tenant replaces a departing one, have flattened or turned negative in several markets as competition for available renters has intensified.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 6 Aug. 2026
The singer’s fourth album inhabits a balmy medium zone of relentlessly moderate tempos and subdued vocals, where even brief moments of intriguing tension and fuzz get flattened into homogeneity.

— Mitch Therieau, Pitchfork, 30 July 2026

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Taylor Trammell then smacked his first triple of the year off the brick wall in right field before Allen sent him home with the go-ahead run off Keaton Winn (2-3).

— ABC News, ABC News, 12 Aug. 2026
When Cunningham went up, Carrington jumped and smacked her in the face.

— Scott Thompson OutKick, FOXNews.com, 10 Aug. 2026

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The death toll could rise because landslides triggered by the earthquake buried or cut off many remote villages across six regencies on Flores, said Fathur Rahman, who heads the Search and Rescue Office in Maumere, the capital of Sikka.

— Yacob Herin, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2026
Rescuers were still searching for villagers feared buried beneath landslides triggered by the quake across six regencies on Flores, a predominantly Catholic island in Muslim-majority Indonesia.

— ABC News, ABC News, 15 Aug. 2026

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