KICKED (ABOUT) Synonyms: 31 Similar and Opposite Words

kicked (about)

verb

past tense of kick (about)

as in objected (to)

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Morocco recalled its ambassador to Spain, and Moroccans protested outside Spanish consulates and near the border.

— JOSEPH WILSON, Arkansas Online, 14 Oct. 2026
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi protested Putin’s August visit, calling it a further blow to relations already strained by Russia’s war in Ukraine.

— ABC News, ABC News, 14 Oct. 2026

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The long delay before Davis was charged did not mean Las Vegas investigators doubted his culpability, DiGiacomo said.

— Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 13 Oct. 2026
Bahdanau quietly doubted their potential to achieve anything like human-level intelligence, but his adviser, the computer scientist Yoshua Bengio, and the postdoc on the project, Kyunghyun Cho, were believers.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 12 Oct. 2026

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