Thesaurus results for RESEMBLED

resembled

verb

past tense of resemble

as in approached

to look or be like (someone or something) He strongly resembles his father in appearance and in temperament. Terrier dogs closely resemble each other.

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Recent Examples of resembled The lawsuit further alleged that Trader Joe’s put its crustless PB&Js peanut in packaging that too closely resembled the coloring of an Uncrustables box and featured a similar photograph of a sandwich with a bite taken out of one side. — Dee-Ann Durbin, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2026 Each looked only at the companies that resembled its subject. — Jason Goldberg, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026 The Asian financial crisis of the 1990s in some ways resembled the Latin American trade imbalances of the 1970s. — Michael Pettis, Foreign Affairs, 28 Aug. 2026 The woman described the suspect as a man with a dark complexion riding an all-black electric bicycle that resembled a motorcycle. — Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 28 Aug. 2026 The backlash resembled the committee’s first contentious meeting, during which some federal committee members and prior IACC members said the proceedings did not comply with federal advisory rules. — O. Rose Broderick, STAT, 28 Aug. 2026 When the sun finally rose, the horse resembled a weary painter who, after considerable effort, has completed his painting and fallen asleep on top of it, exhausted and barely alive. — Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2026 The standout performer is Yoane Wissa, who was signed after Isak’s defection last summer and then barely resembled a footballer. — George Caulkin, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026 In a sequencer that resembled a large fridge, millions of short nucleic-acid fragments would be identified in the span of ten hours. — Jason Liebowitz, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2026

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Sky guard Natasha Cloud approached Freedom’s courtside seat during a third-quarter timeout, leading to a verbal exchange.

— Jackson Thompson OutKick, FOXNews.com, 29 Aug. 2026
As the end approached, families moved out, one at a time, hugging and saying goodbyes to each other outside their dorms.

— Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of approached

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

Verb

The sea change coming for the Angels franchise felt due, illustrated each night at Angel Stadium by the waves of shirtless fans in the upper decks imploring Arte Moreno to sell the team.

— Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2026
Bellow felt an affinity with Kennedy’s combination of low-life high jinks, human frailty, and virtuoso style.

— Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of felt

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Extreme mountain climbing has never looked anything but miserable from the distance of a screening room, and The Other Side delivers mightily on all that scraping, straining, gasping toil.

— Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2026
Victor Munoz, the winger, looked set to sign from Osasuna in June, only for Liverpool to gazump Newcastle at the last moment.

— Chris Waugh, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of looked

Verb

Other Surrealists, meanwhile, seemed to take from animals a license to exploit other (generally female) bodies, as in Clovis Trouille’sJustine(1937), in which both a naked female figure and a lion are bound and captive.

— Kelly Presutti, ARTnews.com, 28 Aug. 2026
To the outside observer, the hearing for the soft-spoken man with the graying mustache may have seemed like any other, save for the FBI agents from the public corruption squad sitting in the back.

— Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of seemed

Verb

The fourth-year pro with blazing speed had an impressive training camp and appeared to be one of the team’s main kick returners.

— Josh Kendall, New York Times, 31 Aug. 2026
During Copenhagen Fashion Week, the monochrome palette appeared on nearly every showgoer—a stark contrast to the week’s historically maximalist approach.

— Laura Jackson, Vogue, 31 Aug. 2026

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