SEDIMENTED Synonyms: 15 Similar and Opposite Words

sedimented

verb

past tense of sediment

as in settled

to cause to come to rest at the bottom (as of a liquid) the water flowing into the reservoir is sedimenting silt faster than was originally expected

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Recent Examples of sedimented It’s really sedimented and entangled. — Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 10 June 2026

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Conservative filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza has settled a defamation lawsuit filed by a Gwinnett County man in 2022, avoiding a trial that was set to begin Monday in federal court in Atlanta.

— Caleb Groves, AJC.com, 18 Aug. 2026
The sisters shook off their poor first set, settled in, and won the first three games of the second as their timing and shot selection improved enough to take advantage of a slight dip from Stearns and Kostyuk.

— Ava Wallace, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2026

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As water moves through their gills, it is filtered for microscopic organisms that these mollusks then consume as food.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 Aug. 2026
That risks creating a different version of the same problem, where legitimate candidates get filtered out by systems that are also guessing at what is real.

— Kara Dennison, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026

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