coffered

verb

past tense of coffer
as in set by

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for coffered
  1. set by
  2. deposited
  3. preserved
  4. withheld
  5. secreted
  6. retained
  7. banked
  8. concealed
Verb
  • Those songs and more were performed during his set by an ace band that included two drummers, whose polyrhythmic beat recalled the Burundi-like drumming of Ant’s 1980 masterpiece Kings of the Wild Frontier.
    — David Chiu, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026
  • Under the new policies set by the SEC and Big Ten, any athlete that has signed with a pro team in the NFL, declared for the NFL Draft or participated in any type of professional training camp will be ineligible for conference competition.
    — Scott Thompson OutKick, FOXNews.com, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of set by
Verb
  • Applicants can receive an approval decision from Biz2Credit in as little as 24 hours and get funds deposited within one business day after approval.
    — Carson Brunson, CNBC, 31 Aug. 2026
  • Hampe logged the chute in a database and deposited it on a shelf with dozens of others.
    — M. R. O’Connor, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of deposited
Verb
  • This design is directly inspired by a historic Leroy tact watch created in 1810, today preserved at the Patek Philippe Museum.
    — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 2 Sep. 2026
  • Information that cannot be efficiently retrieved eventually becomes difficult to use, regardless of how carefully it was preserved.
    — Beth Worthy, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of preserved
Verb
  • With the election fast approaching, Scholten and some other Democrats have withheld their support for El-Sayed for now.
    — Joey Cappelletti, Fortune, 27 Aug. 2026
  • The states argue that Meta withheld relevant information from users and parents, who might have benefited from knowing the ineffectiveness of the feature and others like it, constituting a violation of consumer protection laws.
    — John Ruwitch, NPR, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of withheld
Verb
  • That is until the Secret Service—acting on intelligence about a possible assassination attempt by Iranian proxies—secreted the president off Air Force One on July 8, 2026.
    — Tracy Grant, Encyclopedia Britannica, 25 Aug. 2026
  • The last ceremony of the retreat was with 5-MeO-DMT, a powerful and fast acting psychedelic secreted from a toad.
    — Anderson Cooper, CBS News, 16 Aug. 2026
Definition of secreted
Verb
  • West Ham also retained club captain Jarrod Bowen, Taty Castellanos and Konstantinos Mavropanos, while Arne Engels, Manor Solomon, Joel Piroe and Divine Mukasa were their headline summer additions.
    — Roshane Thomas, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Impressively, Fever retained the Dax's single-channel front ABS system by machining custom wheel-speed sensor discs and fabricating mounts for both the ABS module and the factory tip-over sensor.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of retained
Verb
  • The temperature was in the teens, and the streets were banked with ice.
    — Emily Witt, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026
  • Harris actually banked in her first 3-pointer of the final quarter, a sign of things to come.
    — James Boyd, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of banked
Verb
  • Under-eye shadows, bags and lower-lid definition get played up instead of concealed.
    — Ashley Lynch, Miami Herald, 28 Aug. 2026
  • States alleged that Meta’s internal research documented links between Instagram use and harms including depression, anxiety and body-image concerns among young people, while the company publicly minimized or concealed those risks.
    — Carolina Rossini, The Conversation, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of concealed
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“Coffered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coffered. Accessed 4 Sep. 2026.

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