picnicked

verb

past tense of picnic
as in dined

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for picnicked
  1. dined
  2. partook
  3. ate
  4. fed
  5. grazed
  6. refreshed
  7. noshed
  8. nibbled
Verb
  • Swift and Kelce dined at the Jane Hotel, which is located in the heart of the West Village in Manhattan.
    — Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2026
  • After the vigil, Mamdani dined at Palestinian restaurant Ayat on the Upper West Side.
    — Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of dined
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  • This time, there were six counts, all from activity Myers partook in after his release.
    — Taylor Seely, AZCentral.com, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Along with his involvement in Sam Mendes’ four-part Beatles biopic, McCartney recently partook in a documentary about his time with Wings, Man on the Run, which was directed by Morgan Neville and released in February.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 26 Mar. 2026
Definition of partook
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  • On one day in late December, Eden barely ate all day.
    — Angela Andaloro, People.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • While neither is an effective big league pitcher at this point, those moves ate into the Yankees’ limited rotation depth.
    — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 4 Aug. 2025
Definition of ate
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  • After the raid at the home last year, authorities found that almost every room in the house was equipped with surveillance cameras that fed a series of monitors in the parents’ bedroom, Queally said.
    — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026
  • It's fed by coldwater streams and can support salmon and trout.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of fed
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  • Williams died, and the woman in his car was grazed by a bullet.
    — Liz Crawford, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026
  • These days, Bragg lives with Margaret nearby, in a red-cedar cabin on forty acres of pastureland grazed upon by two miniature donkeys.
    — Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of grazed
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  • Google’s November 13, 2025 holiday shopping update began rolling out agentic checkout and emphasized the scale of its Shopping Graph, with more than 50 billion product listings and 2 billion refreshed every hour.
    — Lauren Schuster, Sacbee.com, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Sure, the sixth-generation model, which was refreshed earlier this year, is big, but there are no outside signs that this version of it is armored.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of refreshed
Verb
  • In that time, he’s cooked through about 1,000 recipes, noshed at more than 200 restaurants and seriously considered getting a map of the city’s grocery stores tattooed on his arm for easy reference.
    — Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Throughout the evening, guests noshed on catfish nuggets, lamb kabobs with curry vinaigrette, and, my personal favorite, a doughnut with a halva and whisky caramel glaze.
    — Brittany Loggins, Bon Appetit Magazine, 8 Jan. 2026
Definition of noshed
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  • Kikuko, her appetite sluggish, nibbled the bread bit by bit from the edges, all the while furtively watching her father.
    — Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Threatened by the lack of water and nibbled by starving livestock, the trees that once formed a dense forest in the Somali region of Ethiopia are in danger, locals say.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 10 Apr. 2026
Definition of nibbled
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