commuted

verb

past tense of commute
as in exchanged
to give up (something) and take something else in return commuting foreign currency to domestic

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Recent Examples of commuted Nine governors over the years have commuted their entire death row, including one Republican. — Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026 Her attorneys have asked for her sentence to be commuted to life in prison without parole. — Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 7 Oct. 2026 Sixty years ago, hall of famer Wilt Chamberlain famously lived in a Manhattan apartment on Central Park West and commuted to Philadelphia for games and practices during his tenures with the Philadelphia Warriors and 76ers. — Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 3 Oct. 2026 Another woman, Gaile Owens, was held in the same facility as Pike for those three years before her death sentence was ultimately commuted, but the two never had contact, court filings show. — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2026 Pavese appealed for clemency, and his sister even wrote directly to Mussolini; his sentence was commuted after less than eight months. — Max Norman, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026 For example, Jason Galanis, who pled guilty to defrauding the Oglala Sioux Nation, had paid just over $2 million of his $80 million restitution before his sentence was commuted and the restitution erased in 2025. — Caren Morrison, The Conversation, 22 Sep. 2026 He was released about a year early, in 2021, after his sentence was commuted for helping fight Oregon wildfires in 2020 under a prison firefighting program. — Matt Lavietes, NBC news, 18 Sep. 2026 Several assistant coaches who planned to go with Kiffin to LSU stayed on with the Rebels and commuted back and forth. — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 14 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for commuted
  1. exchanged
  2. swapped
  3. traded
  4. substituted
  5. changed
Verb
  • Jackson struck Chubb after the two exchanged words following the Bills' 37-34 overtime victory over the Rams at SoFi Stadium.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026
  • In sharp contrast to sprawling industry conferences or high-volume networking mixers where business cards are exchanged in seven-minute increments, these occasions are engineered for depth, the co-founders said.
    — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of exchanged
Verb
  • Roberts had swapped Hernández and slumping Will Smith in the batting order, moving Hernández up to third and Smith down to fifth.
    — Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Factories first swapped the central steam plant that drove every machine through a system of rotating shafts for an electric motor.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of swapped
Verb
  • The next season Padover traded for Allisha Gray for two draft picks, giving the Dream a solid foundation with Gray, Howard and Hillmon.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 12 Oct. 2026
  • Since then, the shop and Clarkson have traded messages on social media.
    — Allison DeGrushe, StyleCaster, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of traded
Verb
  • Greenwood was then substituted, leaving the pitch without a shirt on.
    — Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Suarez scored his 14th and 15th goals before he was substituted off in the 61st minute.
    — Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 11 Oct. 2026
Definition of substituted
Verb
  • After arriving at their Missouri residence, Kelker-Kelly changed his clothes and got into bed.
    — Stephanie Giang-Paunon, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2026
  • The Legislature changed state law to ban the government from spending public funds on political ads.
    — Christopher Spata, Miami Herald, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of changed

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“Commuted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/commuted. Accessed 19 Oct. 2026.

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