Thesaurus results for SEEMED

seemed

verb

past tense of seem

as in looked

to give the impression of being I tried to cheer them up because they seemed depressed

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Recent Examples of seemed 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 McKinley initially seemed to pull through, and for several days reports of recovery were encouraging. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 Aug. 2026 Yet Parton never seemed to sever her connection to the places that shaped her. — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 28 Aug. 2026 Riley, meanwhile, has not seemed like a head coach who’s feeling the heat heading into a make-or-break season at USC. — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2026 And for some reason that seemed to freak a lot of people out. — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 28 Aug. 2026 And for some reason, that seemed to freak a lot of people out. — Taijuan Moorman, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026 Officials on both sides had seemed optimistic about a deal up until the very last moment. — Steve Kopack, NBC news, 22 Aug. 2026

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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

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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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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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