Thesaurus results for PASTED

pasted

verb

past tense of paste

as in whipped

to defeat by a large margin with the economy having gone south, it was hardly surprising that the incumbent party got pasted in the general election

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as in slapped

to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner pasted the soccer ball halfway across the field

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Recent Examples of pasted The mural in question is pasted along the side of the Jolly Colliers Pub building in Bedminster, Bristol. — Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 24 Sep. 2026 Thin partitions marked an early attempt to slice the space into smaller rooms, but the original brick walls remained bare, shivering with cobwebs, where someone had pasted a picture of a man, holy hands bracketing a redbrick heart. — Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2026 One was pasted down on page 73 and was light red, like Jefferson’s hair. — Andrew Lawler, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2026 At the Tribhuvan University Teaching hospital in Kathmandu, the lobby walls have been pasted with photos of hundreds of missing people. — ABC News, 17 Sep. 2026 As New York Times tech journalist Mike Isaac noticed, Zuckerberg apparently copied his Muse announcement from his platform Threads, where his AI agent already had the @muse handle, pasted it onto X, and accidentally tagged the rock band. — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 9 Sep. 2026 Social media users have copied and pasted a map of the geographic distribution of lactose tolerance originally published in the scientific journal Nature into racist chat threads on the online discussion forum 4chan. — Hilary Smith, The Conversation, 25 Aug. 2026 But if watermarked text is pasted into another chatbot system that edits the text, the watermark could be destroyed. — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 13 Aug. 2026 Along the streets in the shadow of the cathedral, posters for Hind Rajab, the five-year-old girl allegedly killed by Israel in Gaza, have been pasted to lamp posts. — Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 29 July 2026

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After learning that Manchester whipped Maggie with a cat-o’-nine-tails, Lizzie agrees to help the Borden family’s maid kill her.

— Samantha Stutsman, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2026
That sort of whipped, inswinging ball from Slater that caused so much havoc is hugely familiar to avid Premier League watchers.

— Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026

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After Daria Rae slapped her backstage, Hartwell was rewarded with a shot at the Knockouts Championship against Brookside.

— Ryan Gaydos OutKick, FOXNews.com, 12 Oct. 2026
At the funeral my half-sister told me I was emotionally disturbed and my memories of being slapped were lies.

— R. Eric Thomas, Denver Post, 10 Oct. 2026

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The storm flattened a boathouse in Destin and ripped away part of the facade of a high-rise in Panama City Beach.

— Emilie Megnien, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2026
Fruits of the plant are flattened pods that are green and soft when young but papery, dry, and brown when mature.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 9 Oct. 2026

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As for the crack, well, that happened by accident when heavy equipment punched through a concrete wall and unintentionally punctured the sphere, company officials told The Mountaineer.

— Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 14 Oct. 2026
Ordinary except, of course, for that time humans punched it, opening the door for the Hera mission to explore the previously unremarkable rocks.

— Meghan Bartels, Space.com, 14 Oct. 2026

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First, Protas buried a cross-zone feed from Alex Ovechkin to give Washington the 2-1 lead.

— ABC News, ABC News, 17 Oct. 2026
The grave contained no grave goods — objects buried alongside the dead — but archaeologists were able to estimate its age based on the skeleton's crouched position and the grave's relationship to the nearby settlement and one of its houses.

— Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2026

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The Eagles also have been smacked with injuries and played without several key starters.

— ABC News, ABC News, 5 Oct. 2026
Kyle Schwarber and Bryce Harper, two longtime opponents for this franchise, then smacked consecutive homers off Lee, who’d surrendered three long balls the entire regular season.

— Gabriel Burns, AJC.com, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of smacked

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In an interview with Inside Edition on Tuesday, store owner Adam Rubin said that his store has been review-bombed since Clarkson took to social media and named the store, and employees and surrounding businesses have been harassed.

— Payton Turkeltaub, Variety, 14 Oct. 2026
The Houthis bombed the corporate HQ of Saudi Aramco in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, on Tuesday, officials said.

— Jim Edwards, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2026

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