reminisced

verb

past tense of reminisce
1
as in remembered

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2
as in pondered

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reminisced
  1. remembered
  2. pondered
  3. recalled
  4. ruminated
  5. recollected
  6. studied
  7. analyzed
  8. deliberated
Verb
  • Shoes stayed on, too, and Delman remembered simply walking through a metal detector.
    — Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Northern Illinois fan Jay remembered when upsetting Notre Dame or reaching the Orange Bowl felt like an attainable dream.
    — Manny Navarro, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of remembered
Verb
  • In a July 2025 text chain, an agent pondered whether facial recognition tools could be used to identify people on TikTok who admitted to being in the country illegally.
    — Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2026
  • In a July interview with Rolling Stone, Foreman pondered why his story went viral.
    — Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 29 July 2026
Definition of pondered
Verb
  • The bystander recalled everyone around her jumping into action.
    — Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Ternus, the colleague recalled, would spend about an hour in the morning reimagining a product with computer software, then walk into the in-house machine shop and fabricate the part himself on a mill or lathe.
    — Sebastian Herrera, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of recalled
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  • The actor’s outfit was adapted from Ackermann’s Fall-Winter 2026 ready-to-wear collection, which ruminated on the language of desire and seduction, and the magnetism of opposites.
    — Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Shanahan ruminated on that topic in his news conference following the 49ers 48-27 win over the Indianapolis Colts Monday.
    — Chris Biderman, Sacbee.com, 23 Dec. 2025
Definition of ruminated
Verb
  • Homer’s poem never depicts the horse and the sacking of Troy in direct action; the city’s fall is recollected only in the form of stories that glorify Greece’s soldiers.
    — Natasha O'Neill, Vanity Fair, 16 July 2026
  • Through its characters, the book stages an argument about the virtues of various types of maps—those that are measured, those that are recollected, those that are dreamed.
    — Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
Definition of recollected
Verb
  • Peyton Stewart was a 21-year-old international business major who grew up with her sister in Westwood, New Jersey, studied abroad in London and interned at TikTok.
    — Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2026
  • On the other end of the spectrum is Texas Tech University, where researchers have studied the potential performance benefits of energy drinks.
    — Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of studied
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  • Innerbody analyzed national search data to figure out what America's favorite beers really were, as well as regional drinking divides and the states that love beer the most.
    — Dina Kaur, AZCentral.com, 3 Sep. 2026
  • This third photon is entangled with the first photon and then both are analyzed for their quantum states, which in the process destroys those states.
    — IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of analyzed
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  • The jury deliberated for 3 hours after a weekslong trial in Las Vegas.
    — Jonathan Landrum Jr, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2026
  • The jury deliberated for roughly three hours after a weeks-long trial in Las Vegas.
    — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of deliberated
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“Reminisced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reminisced. Accessed 6 Sep. 2026.

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