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concluded 1 of 2

adjective

as in finished

brought or having come to an end with another recently concluded fiscal year behind us, we are now ready to face new challenges

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concluded

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verb

past tense of conclude

as in ended

to bring (an event) to a natural or appropriate stopping point a brief reminder of tonight's game concluded the announcements

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as in stopped

to come to an end the concert concluded late in the evening

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as in arranged

to bring about through discussion and compromise concluded an economic agreement among the world's leading industrial nations

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as in decided

to come to a judgment about after discussion or consideration he concluded that the reprimand could wait until later

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as in derived

to form an opinion or reach a conclusion through reasoning and information concluded that only the murderer could possibly have known that information

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The costars continued on Yellowstone Dutton Ranch until the fifth and final season concluded in December 2024. — Alexandra Schonfeld, PEOPLE, 1 Sep. 2026 The Future Factor Judge Leon concluded that the government had just failed to show that the AT&T-Time Warner merger would substantially lessen competition. — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 1 Sep. 2026 When the dashboards showed activity and the P&L showed nothing, many concluded AI wasn't working. — Emily Lewis-Pinnell, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2026 Investors were also monitoring the G20 finance ministers’ meeting in Asheville, North Carolina, which concluded Tuesday, as well as a raft of domestic economic data, with nonfarm payrolls figures expected Friday. — Sean Conlon,hugh Leask, CNBC, 1 Sep. 2026 Collin, a citizenly Frenchman, seems to have similarly concluded that his audience can’t be expected to attend to anything without constant reinforcement. — David Denby, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026 By comparing these to oxygen-proton collisions from the same run as a control, the researchers concluded that there was jet quenching or parton energy loss in these collisions. — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 31 Aug. 2026 The future, though, has already started happening since Cole’s study concluded. — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 31 Aug. 2026 But Lutnick concluded, according to the source close to him, that major repairs wouldn’t make sense if they weren’t accompanied by a larger round of structural renovations to the building. — Noah Shachtman, Vanity Fair, 25 Aug. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for concluded

Adjective

According to the team, the launch of 3Dirigo X marks an ongoing research phase rather than a finished product.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 1 Sep. 2026
With that and, soon enough, the end of the Civil War, construction of the red-brick fort was halted; the half-finished building is what remains today.

— Victoria Davies, Rolling Stone, 31 Aug. 2026

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The city experienced a recent peak of 719 homicides in 2022, a year before Johnson took office, and ended last year with 416, according to Chicago police statistics.

— Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2026
This is one family’s experience of their last year in Connecticut after major hospitals abruptly ended gender-affirming medical care for trans youth.

— Dr. SJ Job, Hartford Courant, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of ended

Verb

Group argued construction could be irreversible The National Trust for Historic Preservation, which is challenging the ballroom, had told the justices that the project would likely become irreversible unless it is stopped now.

— Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2026
Bilt, for its part, said the issue had to do with an earlier iteration of its credit cards that had stopped accepting customers.

— Andy Kroll, ProPublica, 31 Aug. 2026

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Gayle Conran Each of the ryokans served set meals, kaiseki-style, elaborately arranged, with an array of 12 or more small lacquer and porcelain dishes.

— Everett Potter, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026
The printing process can also control how different materials are arranged, allowing different sections of an object to respond differently.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 30 Aug. 2026

Definition of arranged

Verb

Leading the way in court There are dozens of cases across the country surrounding the legal status of prediction sites, and experts believe the matter will eventually be decided by the Supreme Court.

— Marshall Cohen, CNN Money, 30 Aug. 2026
For decades, an attacker discovered a vulnerability, a security tool generated an alert, an analyst investigated it, the issue was escalated and eventually someone decided what to do.

— Emil Sayegh, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026

Definition of decided

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History and discovery Buprenorphine is derived from thebaine, an alkaloid that occurs naturally in the opium poppy (Papaver somniferum).

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 Aug. 2026
The Minneapolis company has shifted to fruit- and vegetable-based dyes as well as colors derived from spices like turmeric and paprika to give its cereals their customary bright colors.

— Dee-Ann Durbin, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of derived

Adjective

To defeat Iran would be a complete victory, not only for Israel but for the entire Middle East.

— Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 31 Aug. 2026
Those tests should reveal how well the modular architecture performs once individual components operate as part of a complete launcher.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of complete

Verb

Chaparral flies autonomously Elroy Air completed a new series of autonomous, uncrewed flight tests of its Chaparral cargo aircraft under the US Department of Transportation and FAA’s eIPP project.

— Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2026
Google said the model excels at coding and on some benchmarks, its performance equalled that of larger models from rival AI companies, but completed them at a much lower cost.

— Wen Shao, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2026

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