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verb

past tense of repair

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of repaired
Adjective
The town will unveil the renovations next month and the improvements include a new paint job on the interior of the historic building, a repaired 19th-century chalkboard pulley system and repair of the several small holes in the roof. — Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 28 Aug. 2026 Volunteers painted and repaired bleachers, replaced the chain-link fence in the outfield with a wooden one and painted the dugouts. — Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2026 That can mean fewer repaired roofs, fewer modernized science laboratories, fewer accessible entrances and elevators, fewer upgraded heating and cooling systems, fewer lead and asbestos remediation projects and fewer safety improvements. — Angel Gutierrez, Chicago Tribune, 3 Aug. 2026 After a fracture, the body moves through overlapping stages of repair that include inflammation, formation of new tissue and, later, remodeling of the repaired area. — Priya Bhardwaj, The Conversation, 22 June 2026 To help prevent future settling, monitor the area weekly and add 1/2 inch or less of your soil mix as a top dressing to the repaired area. — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 16 June 2026 Also, in a game that requires the quick twitch of athleticism, Kobe Bryant, post-surgically repaired Achilles, never looked the same while languishing on a Lakers team that never won more than 27 games in his final three years. — Candace Buckner, New York Times, 14 May 2026 Black Crowes recently appeared on Rolling Stone’s Nashville Now podcast, during which Robinson claimed that his repaired relationship with Rich lit the way for Liam Gallagher and Noel Gallagher to do the same in 2025. — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 18 Mar. 2026 At a news conference afterward, Lemley displayed her repaired medal. — CBS News, 11 Feb. 2026
Verb
The museum confirmed the incident occurred on October 4 but found no signs to explain how a three-hundred-year-old bowl could have fallen onto a box below, breaking both objects, which are now being repaired. — Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 14 Oct. 2026 That preparation became even more important when the ice machine at his postal station stopped working and was not repaired, Carla Gates said. — Ginger Allen, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026 In total, between 150 and 200 cables are damaged each year and usually repaired quickly. — Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 14 Oct. 2026 The two have since repaired their relationship, appearing together at several recent events. — Luke Fountain, CNBC, 12 Oct. 2026 A lot of the horses have small fractures in the wood joints that need to be repaired as well. — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2026 At close inspection, though, the sign had received new wiring and fresh black paint near two letters that had to be repaired. — Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 10 Oct. 2026 And when new subdivisions and commercial buildings are built, that adds to the permanent infrastructure that must be operated, inspected, maintained, repaired, upgraded and restored for decades. — Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 8 Oct. 2026 For one, the report did not disclose the kinds of items its survey respondents repaired. — Roy Stephen Canivel, Footwear News, 6 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for repaired
Adjective
  • Most trailers in this weight class include a topper tent for accommodations or a fixed bed inside a teardrop shell.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 1 Oct. 2026
  • For seniors with a fixed income, that extra cash is often spendable money that ends up back in the economy.
    — The Week US, TheWeek, 28 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Maybe there’s an equilibrium that must be restored on this show, relationship-wise.
    — Tom Smyth, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Congress restored most of the funding for fiscal year 2026 and is expected to do the same in the 2027 budget.
    — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 14 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Four years ago, after helping found Matter, Apple rebuilt HomeKit’s underlying architecture and revamped the Home app, laying a strong foundation.
    — Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, The Verge, 12 Oct. 2026
  • Cities almost entirely destroyed by American bombs had to be rebuilt.
    — Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
Adjective
  • That the mandamus order requires the FCC to abandon its deliberation process is itself an injury that cannot be remedied after the fact.
    — Jack Birle, The Washington Examiner, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Second, the agency can issue formal or informal warning letters threatening consequences if a violation is not remedied.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The fighting has revived Yemen’s civil war after four years of relative calm.
    — Samy Magdy, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Returning from a brief social media hiatus, Adéla revived the conversation with an Instagram post defending Chinouriri and encouraging fans to be more respectful of other artists.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Strolling, moon-watching, reading, writing, burning incense, listening to the guqin and sharing a simple banquet were then reconstructed as experiences that visitors could enter and feel for themselves.
    — Li Jun, Footwear News, 12 Oct. 2026
  • Since then, the 16-foot-by-32-foot church has been reconstructed, after archaeologists in 2021 uncovered the church’s original foundation, as well as 62 graves linked to the congregation.
    — Nancy Jiang, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • One example was Portland’s Pittock Mansion, recreated for a rooftop escape involving protagonist Prue McKeel.
    — Davide Abbatescianni, Variety, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Barkley also later recreated the leap for the cover of Madden NFL 2026 – without Jones.
    — Mark Long, The Orlando Sentinel, 9 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Gavin Newsom and Mark Ruffalo haven’t patched things up since David Ellison’s contentious mega-bucks Paramount and Warner Bros Discovery merger was approved and completed earlier this month.
    — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2026
  • That’s bad enough, but the agent also launched with a zero-day vulnerability that, luckily, has been patched.
    — Alan Henry, PC Magazine, 2 Oct. 2026

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“Repaired.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/repaired. Accessed 19 Oct. 2026.

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